I. “Prehistoric” Art
Art: the first mode of expression?
Prehistory History
3 millions years to
c. 3’300 BCE
c. 3’300 BCE to nowadays
AntiquityNeolithicPaleolithic Middle Ages Modern Age Contemporary?
3 millions to
10’000 BCE
10’000 to
3’300 BCE
3’300 BCE to
476 CE
476 to
1453 or
1492
1453–1789 1789–2023 etc….
Function(s) of images?
“I am struck by the fact that new light is shed on our birth
at the very moment when the perspective of death is
appearing”
Georges Bataille, Lascaux ou la naissance de l’art, 1955
Gravettian Solutrean Magdalenian
11,1 cm
Louise Bourgeois, Harmless
Woman, 1969
(private collec6on)