The cave painters : probing the mysteries of the world's first artists /
Looks at the cave paintings of Spain and France, examining the origins of these artworks and their creators, Cro-Magnon people who settled there centuries ago, and discusses the theories concerning the meaning of the paintings.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Anchor Books,
2007.
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| Edition: | First Anchor books edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The naked cave man
- The seductive axe; the well-clothed arrivals
- A skeptic admits his error; the passion of Miss Mary E. Boyle
- Noble Robot, an inquiring dog; the Abbe's sermons on the mount
- The great black cow; how to paint a horse
- A stormy drama among bison; the golden section
- A lively but unreliable creation; quaint, symbolic arrows
- The trident-shaped cave; pairing, not coupling
- Three brothers in a boat; the sorcerer
- A passage underwater; the skull on a rock
- Strange, stylized women; the world below the world.