Konsthistoria: förhistorisk konst

Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple …

Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and …

Deep underground, hidden from view, some of humanity’s earliest artistic endeavours have lain buried for thousands of years. The most ancient artworks were portable objects, left …

Where do we find the world’s very first art? When, and why, did people begin experimenting with different materials, forms and colours? Were our once-cousins, the Neanderthals, …

The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World The oldest book in the world is the filled with wisdom quotes and teachings on how one is to conduct ones life and how to …

Images of the Ice Age, here in its third edition, is the most complete study available of the world's earliest imagery, presenting a fascinating and up-to-date account of the art …

An Archaeology of Materials sets out a new approach to the study of raw materials. Traditional understandings of materials in archaeology (and in western thought more widely) have …

François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in …

Der attische Vasenmaler Oltos war einer der ersten, die in der neuen, um 530 v. Chr. entwickelten, rotfigurigen Technik malten. Er dekorierte fast ausschliesslich Trinkschalen. In …