Author: Robert Romano Ravi Brooks
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300019377
Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Stone Age Painting in India
Author: Robert Romano Ravi Brooks
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300019377
Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300019377
Category : Art, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Wonder of the Age
Author: John Guy
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394301
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394301
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012.
Prehistoric Rock Art of India
Author: Erwin Neumayer
Publisher: OUP India
ISBN: 9780198060987
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Covering a vast terrain-from Ladakh and other Himalayan locations, to central India including the Vindhyas, the Satpuras, and the Chhota Nagpur Plateau, to southern Deccan and Sri Lanka-the book presents for the first time a well-rounded overview of rock art in India down the ages.
Publisher: OUP India
ISBN: 9780198060987
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Covering a vast terrain-from Ladakh and other Himalayan locations, to central India including the Vindhyas, the Satpuras, and the Chhota Nagpur Plateau, to southern Deccan and Sri Lanka-the book presents for the first time a well-rounded overview of rock art in India down the ages.
African Rock Art
Author: David Coulson
Publisher: Harry N Abrams B.V.
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Contains more than two hundred photographs of Africa's rock art, coupled with historical and interpretive analyses, compiled to raise public awareness of the variety, importance, and frailty of these works.
Publisher: Harry N Abrams B.V.
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Contains more than two hundred photographs of Africa's rock art, coupled with historical and interpretive analyses, compiled to raise public awareness of the variety, importance, and frailty of these works.
Indian Rock Art
Author: Shyam Kumar Pandey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
What Is Paleolithic Art?
Author: Jean Clottes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022618806X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The noted archaeologist explores the varieties of prehistoric cave art across the world and offers surprising insights into its purpose and meaning. What drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the likenesses of lions, bison, horses, and aurochs as they flickered by firelight? Was it a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of the world? In this book, Jean Clottes, one of the most renowned figures in the study of cave paintings, pursues an answer to the “why” of Paleolithic art. Discussing sites and surveys across the world, Clottes offers personal reflections on how we have viewed these paintings in the past, what we learn from looking at them across geographies, and what these paintings may have meant—and what function they may have served—for their artists. Steeped in Clottes’s shamanistic theories of cave painting, What Is Paleolithic Art? travels from well-known Ice Age sites like Chauvet, Altamira, and Lascaux to visits with contemporary aboriginal artists, evoking a continuum between the cave paintings of our prehistoric past and the living rock art of today. Clottes’s work lifts us from the darkness of our Paleolithic origins to reveal surprising insights into how we think, why we create, why we believe, and who we are
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022618806X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The noted archaeologist explores the varieties of prehistoric cave art across the world and offers surprising insights into its purpose and meaning. What drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the likenesses of lions, bison, horses, and aurochs as they flickered by firelight? Was it a creative impulse, a spiritual dawn, a shamanistic conception of the world? In this book, Jean Clottes, one of the most renowned figures in the study of cave paintings, pursues an answer to the “why” of Paleolithic art. Discussing sites and surveys across the world, Clottes offers personal reflections on how we have viewed these paintings in the past, what we learn from looking at them across geographies, and what these paintings may have meant—and what function they may have served—for their artists. Steeped in Clottes’s shamanistic theories of cave painting, What Is Paleolithic Art? travels from well-known Ice Age sites like Chauvet, Altamira, and Lascaux to visits with contemporary aboriginal artists, evoking a continuum between the cave paintings of our prehistoric past and the living rock art of today. Clottes’s work lifts us from the darkness of our Paleolithic origins to reveal surprising insights into how we think, why we create, why we believe, and who we are
Painting in Stone
Author: Fabio Barry
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300248164
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300248164
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
Preservation of Rock Art
Author: Jacques Brunet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Number nine in the monograph series of Occasional Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA) Publications. Contains the proceedings of symposia G and H of the Second AURA Congress in 1992 with contributions by 56 authors on rock art management and preservation. Suited for those involved in the physical preservation or conservation of rock art, or in the ethics and techniques of site management and in the presentation of public rock art sites.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Number nine in the monograph series of Occasional Australian Rock Art Research Association (AURA) Publications. Contains the proceedings of symposia G and H of the Second AURA Congress in 1992 with contributions by 56 authors on rock art management and preservation. Suited for those involved in the physical preservation or conservation of rock art, or in the ethics and techniques of site management and in the presentation of public rock art sites.
Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit
Author: David S. Whitley
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615920560
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Whitley, one of the world's leading experts on cave paintings, rewrites the understanding of shamanism and its connection with artistic creativity, myth, and religion by interweaving archaeological evidence with the latest findings of cutting-edge neuroscience.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615920560
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Whitley, one of the world's leading experts on cave paintings, rewrites the understanding of shamanism and its connection with artistic creativity, myth, and religion by interweaving archaeological evidence with the latest findings of cutting-edge neuroscience.
Metalwork of the Bronze Age in India
Author: Paul Yule
Publisher: C.H.Beck
ISBN: 9783406304408
Category : Art metal-work, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: C.H.Beck
ISBN: 9783406304408
Category : Art metal-work, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description