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- catalog abstract "In December 1994, in the Ardeche Valley of southeast France, three explorers chanced upon the hidden entrance to an underground cavern. Digging away the rubble, they made their way through a narrow passage into a vast cave, and there made one of the most thrilling discoveries of modern times: The Chauvet cave, named for one of the discoverers, which had been untouched for thousands of years. It was filled with Stone Age cave bear skeletons and footprints, the blackened remains of fires, and, most importantly, walls covered with more than three hundred extraordinary paintings and engravings of animals. These staggering images proved to be doubly remarkable, for not only have radiocarbon tests established them to be over 30,000 years old - the oldest known paintings in the world, nearly twice as old as those found at Lascaux - but they are powerful, sophisticated works of art rather than crude sketches. Dawn of Art is the first book in English on the images that have, as the French Ministry of Culture declared, "overturned the accepted notion about the first appearance of art and its development." The remarkable photographs in Dawn of Art show each wall in clear detail, revealing the incredible mastery of the prehistoric artists. Astonishingly, while most cave art is of creatures such as horses, aurochs, and bison, over half of these images depict such dangerous animals as cave bears, hyenas, lions, mammoths, and rhinoceroses. The paintings are particularly impressive in terms of the techniques used to present perspective and motion. Many figures interact with each other; some are staggered, to give perspective; others are drawn on bulges in the cave wall to further suggest depth.".
- catalog alternative "Chauvet Cave".
- catalog alternative "Grotte Chauvet à Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. English".
- catalog contributor b9610103.
- catalog contributor b9610104.
- catalog contributor b9610105.
- catalog coverage "Chauvet Cave (France)".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Paul G. Bahn -- The Discovery of Chauvet Cave. The Gorges of the Ardeche. The Three Discoverers. Birth of a Team. Exploration. Our Discoveries in the Gorges of the Ardeche. The Decorated Caves. The Discovery of Chauvet Cave. A Path along the Cliff. First Steps in an Immense Gallery. Traces of Red Ochre. Depictions of a Kind Unknown in the Ardeche. The Panel of the Horses. The Lion Panel. The Cave's Morphology. Protection and Authentication -- Epilogue: Chauvet Cave Today / Jean Clottes. Authentication. The Floors. The Themes. The Pictorial Techniques. How Old are these Drawings? The Radiocarbon Dates of Chauvet Cave. The Originality of Chauvet Cave.".
- catalog description "In December 1994, in the Ardeche Valley of southeast France, three explorers chanced upon the hidden entrance to an underground cavern. Digging away the rubble, they made their way through a narrow passage into a vast cave, and there made one of the most thrilling discoveries of modern times: The Chauvet cave, named for one of the discoverers, which had been untouched for thousands of years. It was filled with Stone Age cave bear skeletons and footprints, the blackened remains of fires, and, most importantly, walls covered with more than three hundred extraordinary paintings and engravings of animals.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130) and index.".
- catalog description "The remarkable photographs in Dawn of Art show each wall in clear detail, revealing the incredible mastery of the prehistoric artists. Astonishingly, while most cave art is of creatures such as horses, aurochs, and bison, over half of these images depict such dangerous animals as cave bears, hyenas, lions, mammoths, and rhinoceroses. The paintings are particularly impressive in terms of the techniques used to present perspective and motion. Many figures interact with each other; some are staggered, to give perspective; others are drawn on bulges in the cave wall to further suggest depth.".
- catalog description "These staggering images proved to be doubly remarkable, for not only have radiocarbon tests established them to be over 30,000 years old - the oldest known paintings in the world, nearly twice as old as those found at Lascaux - but they are powerful, sophisticated works of art rather than crude sketches. Dawn of Art is the first book in English on the images that have, as the French Ministry of Culture declared, "overturned the accepted notion about the first appearance of art and its development."".
- catalog extent "135 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dawn of art.".
- catalog identifier "0810932326 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dawn of art.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : H.N. Abrams,".
- catalog relation "Dawn of art.".
- catalog spatial "Chauvet Cave (France)".
- catalog spatial "France Vallon-Pont-d'Arc.".
- catalog subject "759.01/12/094482 20".
- catalog subject "Art, Prehistoric France Vallon-Pont-d'Arc.".
- catalog subject "Cave paintings France Vallon-Pont-d'Arc.".
- catalog subject "N5310.5.F7 C4713 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Paul G. Bahn -- The Discovery of Chauvet Cave. The Gorges of the Ardeche. The Three Discoverers. Birth of a Team. Exploration. Our Discoveries in the Gorges of the Ardeche. The Decorated Caves. The Discovery of Chauvet Cave. A Path along the Cliff. First Steps in an Immense Gallery. Traces of Red Ochre. Depictions of a Kind Unknown in the Ardeche. The Panel of the Horses. The Lion Panel. The Cave's Morphology. Protection and Authentication -- Epilogue: Chauvet Cave Today / Jean Clottes. Authentication. The Floors. The Themes. The Pictorial Techniques. How Old are these Drawings? The Radiocarbon Dates of Chauvet Cave. The Originality of Chauvet Cave.".
- catalog title "Chauvet Cave".
- catalog title "Dawn of art : the Chauvet Cave : the oldest known paintings in the world / Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire ; epilogue by Jean Clottes ; foreword by Paul G. Bahn ; [translated from the French by Paul G. Bahn].".
- catalog title "Grotte Chauvet à Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. English".
- catalog type "text".