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1999 Hardcover Book -The Cave of Altamira by Pedro A. Saura Ramos & Harry Abrams
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “see item description for condition”
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Era
- 1999
- ISBN
- 9780810919891
- EAN
- 9780810919891
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
0810919893
ISBN-13
9780810919891
eBay Product ID (ePID)
689484
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cave of Altamira
Number of Pages
180 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Archaeology, History / Prehistoric & Primitive
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
51.6 Oz
Item Length
12.2 in
Item Width
10.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-013832
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
709/.01/120946351
Synopsis
Today the cave of Altamira in northern Spain, with its famous ceiling decorated with magnificent painted figures of bison, horses, deer, and wild cattle, is acknowledged as one of the great monuments of prehistoric art.It seems surprising, therefore, that when the cave was first discovered in 1879 and presented to the scholarly world, it was greeted with scepticism ranging from mild caution to outright contempt. The reasons for this reaction were many. The discoverer of the cave, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, was not an academic prehistorian. Moreover, everything about Altamira seemed excessive: its great antiquity, its vast size, the astonishing quality of its paintings. Nothing even remotely like it had been seen before.Scholars in the late nineteenth century believed that Paleolithic people were capable of little more than instinctive action. However, the drawings, engravings, and especially the paintings in the Polychrome Chamber at Altamira were clearly the work of artists whose mastery of their media and artistic sensibilities rivaled those of the great European masters. If the art at Altamira was genuine, theories accepted by the most distinguished authorities on prehistoric art would have to be discarded. Not surprisingly, there was considerable resistance to accepting the authenticity of the paintings. The result was that one of the greatest works of Paleolithic art was virtually ignored for more than twenty years.As time went on, however, opinions began to change. New discoveries during the 1890s and early in the twentieth century brought to light a wealth of Paleolithic artifacts and paintings that looked strikingly like the art at Altamira. By 1905 the paintings inthe cave were finally accepted as what they are: some of the finest and most important surviving works of prehistoric art.This beautiful book presents a fresh look at the cave at Altamira in light of the many exciting disco
LC Classification Number
GN772.22.S7S2813
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