Curtis, Gregory <br/><br/>
The cave painters :   probing the mysteries of the world's first artists 
/ Gregory Curtis 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York  : Knopf  , 2006 
 - 278 p.  : illus.  ; 22 cm 
<br/><br/>The naked cave man -- The seductive axe; the well-clothed arrivals -- A skeptic admits his error; the passion of Miss Mary E. Boyle -- Noble Robot, an inquiring dog; the Abbe's sermons on the mount -- The great black cow; how to paint a horse -- A stormy drama among bison; the golden section -- A lively but unreliable creation; quaint, symbolic arrows -- The trident-shaped cave; pairing, not coupling -- Three brothers in a boat; the sorcerer -- A passage underwater; the skull on a rock --Strange, stylized women; the world below the world. 
<br/><br/> Looks at the cave paintings of Spain and France, examining the origins of these artworks and their creators, Cro-Magnon people who settled there centuries ago, and discusses the theories concerning the meaning of the paintings. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781400043484 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cave paintings
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>France<br/>Spain
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QB721  / .S34 1985 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>REF 759.011 CUR