John Wiley & Sons, 2009. — 264 p. They stretch across stone walls located in almost inaccessible underground caverns. In drawing after drawing, in prehistoric caves in France and Spain that date from the Ice Age, horses, bison, bulls, and other animals-often painted in brilliant oranges, blacks, browns, and yellows-stare out into darkness, as fresh and striking today as they...
Thames & Hudson, 2017. — 240 p. Where is the world’s very first art located? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms, and colors? Prehistorians have long been asking these questions, but only recently have they been able to piece together the first chapter in the story of art. Overturning the traditional Eurocentric vision of our artistic...
Yale University Press, 2010. — 278 p. The cave art of France’s Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones in the development of human culture, demonstrating how far humankind has come and reminding...
Thames & Hudson, 2004. — 320 p.
The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe has the power to dazzle even the most jaded observers.
Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet, and Altamira, visitors are confronted with symbols, patterns, and depictions of bison, woolly mammoths, ibexes,...
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