Explores the importance of rock art, discussing how it helps researchers learn about the past, profiling important sites, and exploring the meanings of the images.
from St. Emilion to Paris's St. Sulpice : notes on art and the human spirit
Turner, Frederick W.
2004
Explores the role of art and human expression at the dawn of the twenty-first century, tracing the history of art in order to form a new assessment of its meanings in the human story.
Surveys prehistoric art throughout the world, including body art, art on rocks and walls, and objects; changes in scholarship; and what the art can reveal about early sexual, social, economic, and religious life.
In this song based on "The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly," a prehistoric man, contemplating the creation of the world, paints images on the ceiling of a cave, that are later discovered by a young Spanish girl in 1879.
