Transfixed by Prehistory - An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time

Viac o knihe

"We slip away from ourselves" : the discovery and internalization of the Earth's age (eighteenth to twentieth centuries) -- Reconstituting the antiquity of humankind and of art -- The artificiality of prehistory : a disjunctive genealogy of art -- The paradox of the Neolithic : rupture and permanence, order and disorder -- Prehistory in the Atomic Age.