The cradle of humanity : prehistoric art and culture / Georges Bataille ; edited and introduced by Stuart Kendall ; translated by Michelle Kendall and Stuart Kendall.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Zone Books, 2005Description: 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1890951552
- 709.01 22
- N5310 .B382 2005
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709 UPJ History of world art / | 709 WAI Contemporary Maori art / | 709 WES Everything that rises : a book of convergences / | 709.01 BAT The cradle of humanity : prehistoric art and culture / | 709.01 GRA Prehistoric art : paleolithic painting and sculpture. | 709.011 ARC Sculpture and design : an outline of Maori art / | 709.011 ARC The art forms of Polynesia / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-210) and index.
Editor's introduction : the sediment of the possible -- I. Primitive art -- II. The Frobenius exhibit at the Salle Pleyel -- III. A visit to Lascaux : a lecture at the Societe d'Agriculture, Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts d'Orleans -- IV. The passage from animal to man and the birth of art -- V. A meeting in Lascaux : civilized man rediscovers the man of desire -- VI. Lecture, January 18, 1955 -- VII. The Lespugue Venus -- VIII. Prehistoric religion -- IX. The cradle of humanity : the Vezere Valley -- X. Unlivable earth? -- Notes for a film.
"The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects Georges Bataille's essays and lectures spanning thirty years of his research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history - with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille's reflections on the possible origins of humanity concur with the intensified threat of its possible extinction." "For Bataille, prehistory is universal history; it is the history of a human community prior to its fall into separation, into nations and races. The art of prehistory offers the earliest traces of nascent yet fully human consciousness - of consciousness not yet fully separated from natural flora and fauna nor from the energetic forces of the universe. A play of identities, the art of prehistory is the art of a consciousness struggling against itself, of a human spirit struggling against brute animal physicality. Prehistory is the cradle of humanity, the birth of tragedy." "Bataille reaches beyond disciplinary specializations to imagine a moment when thought was universal. Bataille's work provides a model for interdisciplinary inquiry in our own day, a universal imagination and thought for our own potential community. The Cradle of Humanity speaks to philosophers and historians of thought, to anthropologists interested in the history of their discipline and in new methodologies, to theologians and religious comparatists interested in the origins and nature of man's encounter with the sacred, and to art historians and aestheticians grappling with the place of prehistory in the canons of art."--BOOK JACKET.
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