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Cave Paintings And The Human Spirit : The Origin Of Creativity And Belief

  • Cave Paintings And The Human Spirit : The Origin Of Creativity And Belief

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    David S. Whitley

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    Book, Prometheus Books, 2009

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    The magnificent prehistoric art discovered in caves throughout France and Spain raises many questions about early human culture. To grasp what drove these ancient artists to create these masterpieces, and to understand the origin of myth and religion, as Whitley explains, is to appreciate what makes us human. Far from being typical representatives of ancient religion, shamans were exceptions to the normal rule of early religion. Combining a colorful narrative describing Whitley’s personal explorations at key archaeological sites with robust scientific research, Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit makes for engrossing reading. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  GN803 .W495 2009  DUE 12-04-09 +1 RECALLED

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Cave Art

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Lascaux Revisited Exploring Prehistoric Cave Art

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The Nature Of Paleolithic Art

  • The Nature Of Paleolithic Art

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    R. Dale Guthrie

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    Book, University of Chicago Press, 2005

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    With a natural historian’s keen eye for observation, and as one who has spent a lifetime using bones and other excavated materials to piece together past human behavior and environments, Guthrie demonstrates that Paleolithic art is a mode of expression we can comprehend to a remarkable degree and that the perspective of natural history is integral to that comprehension. With more than 3,000 images, The Nature of Paleolithic Art offers the most comprehensive representation of Paleolithic art ever published and a radical (and controversial) new way of interpreting it. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  GN772 .G87 2005  AVAILABLE

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New Perspectives On Prehistoric Art

  • New Perspectives On Prehistoric Art

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    edited by Günter Berghaus

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    Book, Praeger, 2004

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    These insights, which derive from evolutionary biology, feminist scholarship, ritual studies, and new modes of anthropology, argue collectively that prehistoric art was a culture-specific form of communication that should be interpreted in the social context of early hunger-gatherer societies and should not be measured with the criteria and paradigms of modern art. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  N5310 .N447 2004  AVAILABLE

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Prehistoric Art : The Symbolic Journey Of Humankind

  • Prehistoric Art : The Symbolic Journey Of Humankind

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    Randall White

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    Book, Harry N. Abrams, 2003

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    In Prehistoric Art, anthropologist Randall White presents a global survey, starting with the first explosion of imagery that occurred approximately 40,000 years ago but also including the creations of essentially “prehistoric” peoples living as recently as the early 20th century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  N5310 .W48 2003  AVAILABLE

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The Mind In The Cave : Consciousness And The Origins Of Art

  • The Mind In The Cave : Consciousness And The Origins Of Art

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    David Lewis-Williams

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    Book, Thames & Hudson, 2002

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    The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe in the late Ice Age has the power to dazzle even the most jaded observers. In the most convincing explanation for Upper Palaeolithic art yet proposed, David Lewis-Williams describes how nineteenth-century beliefs that the drawings were “art for art’s sake,” or totemism, were supplanted in the wake of Darwinian evolutionary theory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  N5310 .L55 2002  AVAILABLE

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Chauvet Cave : The Art Of Earliest Times

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Early Chinese Art And Its Possible Influence In The Pacific Basin; A Symposium Arranged By The Department Of Art History And Archaeology, Columbia University, New York City, August 21-25, 1967.

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African Rock Art : Paintings And Engravings On Stone

  • African Rock Art : Paintings And Engravings On Stone

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    David Coulson, Alec Campbell

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    Book, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2001

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    Readers will share his awe in the pages of this breathtaking volume, the first comprehensive illustrated book on Africa?s rock art from prehistoric times to the 20th century. Covering the entire continent, this magnificently illustrated book contains more than 200 full-color photographs of Africa?s rock art, together with historical and interpretive analysis. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     OVERSIZE (UPPER)  GN861 .C68 2001  AVAILABLE

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Pre-historic Art In India

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The Shamans Of Prehistory : Trance And Magic In The Painted Caves

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The Cambridge Illustrated History Of Prehistoric Art

  • The Cambridge Illustrated History Of Prehistoric Art

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    by Paul G. Bahn

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    Book, New York, 1998

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    Beautifully illustrated in color with many rare and unique photographs, prints, and drawings, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art presents the first balanced and truly worldwide survey of prehistoric art. The book also offers the first detailed account of how the world of scholarship became aware of the existence of prehistoric art, reproducing the very earliest drawings by explorers and surveyors from the 1600s onward to create a unique pictorial as well as discursive resource. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  N5310 .B34 1998  AVAILABLE

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Painters Of The Caves

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Journey Through The Ice Age

  • Journey Through The Ice Age

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    Paul G. Bahn and Jean Vertut

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    Book, University of California Press, 1997

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    Some of the oldest art in the world is the subject of this riveting and beautiful book. The beliefs and preoccupations of Paleolithic peoples resonate throughout this book: the importance of the hunt and the magic and shamanism surrounding it, the recording of the seasons, the rituals of sex and fertility, the cosmology and associated myths. A comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all that has been discovered about Ice Age art, Bahn and Vertut’s book offers a visually rich link with the past. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     OVERSIZE (UPPER)  GN772.22.F7 B33 1997  AVAILABLE

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