Author: Carole Fritz (Editor)
Publisher: Einaudi
Necklace: Great works
Year edition: 2022
Format: Hardcover
Pages of the printed version: 620 p.
EAN: 9788806253127
€ 140,00
This volume illustrates the body of current knowledge relating to one of the most exciting creative expressions in the entire history of humanity. The result of the collaboration of a team of international researchers, it offers the reader a complete overview of the prehistoric arts, from Europe to Australia, from Asia to Africa and the Americas, paying particular attention to the most recent surveys, such as those of the region of the Pecos River in the United States and the Nawarla Gabarnmang in Australia. If the first hints of symbolism appeared with Homo sapiens in southern Africa more than 75 years ago, figurative art emerged in Europe (and possibly Australia) at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic, about 000 years ago. A flowering of artistic manifestations (objects, decorations of caves and rock shelters, etc.) discovered all over the world, with their regional peculiarities, but also with numerous common traits. They are indispensable testimonies to approach the extraordinary expressive universe of each of these societies that still did not know writing. The many images of animals, humans and hybrids, painted, engraved, dotted, carved or modeled illustrate the specific identities of men and women, all very different in their understanding of the world and their way of life, but very similar in the ways with which they made it tangible. Rich in over 40 illustrations, this work documents humanity's first masterpieces and, in the light of new technologies (dating, characteristics of pictorial materials, 000D modeling...), offers new interpretations regarding the sources, materiality and meanings of artistic creations of inestimable value.
