Bahn: The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art. Cloth.
9780521454735 3559
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Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art. Cloth. ca. 25x20 cm
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Paul G. Bahn, Foreword by Desmond Morris
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334 pages, and 164 colour plates. 1997
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Beautifully illustrated in colour with many rare and unique photographs, prints, and drawings, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art presents the first balanced and truly world-wide 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 onwards to create a unique pictorial as well as discursive resource. With this powerful combination of illustration and analysis, Paul Bahn describes what prehistoric art is and the different ways in which it can shed light on the lives and preoccupations of our ancestors: sexual, humorous, social, economic, and religious.
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