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Ice Age Art Now - Softcover

Cook, Jill

 
9780714123516: Ice Age Art Now
Softcover
ISBN 10: 071412351X ISBN 13: 9780714123516
Verlag: British Museum Press, 2025

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Showcases remarkable Ice Age art from Europe, highlighting ancient creativity and its influence on modern artists.

Ice Age art now presents work by people living in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age. These astounding pieces; some as much as 32; 000 years old; reveal the deep roots of drawing; sculpture; realism; abstraction; signs; symbols and more. Six thematic sections delve into specific artworks to highlighting the skill and vision of artists through objects such as a spear thrower made around 11; 000 years ago; which was ingeniously sculpted in the round from reindeer antler in the form of a clearly identifiable mammoth. The extraordinary skill and imagination of these early image makers find echoes in modern and contemporary art; with works by Goya; Rembrandt; Henri Matisse; David Hockney and Maggi Hambling also illustrated. A final section explores what life might have been like for the people making art at the time; immersing the reader in the cave itself.

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Jill Cook is the Keeper of the Britain, Europe and Prehistory Department at the British Museum. She curated the exhibition Ice Age Art: the arrival of the modern mind in 2013 and is the curator of the exhibition Ice Age Art Now at Cliffe Castle, Keighley, part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations.

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A beautifully illustrated book that demonstrates how artistic creativity existed thousands of years before traditional art histories suggest, as an essential part of human life.

Ice Age art now presents extraordinary drawn and sculpted images from the final 20,000 years of the last Ice Age in the British Museum's collection. These astounding works, some dating back to around 23,000 years ago, reveal the deep roots of drawing, sculpture and modelling in the era of the great painted caves of Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain. This period may be described as a renaissance in the applied and fine arts of people who had narrowly avoided extinction in the harsh cold of the Last Glacial Maximum, who then asserted their ways of life through art. Seven thematic sections explore specific artworks, highlighting the skill and vision of artists through objects such as an ingeniously sculpted spear thrower made around 13,500 years ago in the form of a mammoth (illustrated above). The final section delves into the alternative world of a painted cave.

The imagery in this book conjures up a lost time when people were part of and dependent on nature and showed their respect for it through beautiful, closely observed images of animals. Although the materials supporting the works may be different, techniques of composing, drawing and shading, as well as abstracting and animating, are achieved in the same ways. As a reminder of this, historical and contemporary works by Francisco de Goya, Rembrandt van Rijn, Henri Matisse and Maggi Hambling are included to encourage new ways of seeing.

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Verlag
British Museum Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
071412351X
ISBN 13 
9780714123516
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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