What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity by Jean Clottes

What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

Jean Clottes with Oliver Y. Martin (Translator), Robert D. Martin (Translator)

208 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or w...

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