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- Title
Animation in Palaeolithic art: a pre-echo of cinema.
- Authors
Azéma, Marc; Rivère, Florent
- Abstract
Marc Azéma a Palaeolithic researcher and film maker has been exploring the representation of animal movement in cave art far more than 20 years, and here shares with us his latest examples, culled from the parietal art in the Chauvet Cave (Ardèche) and La Baume Latrone (Gard). Here he has shown that Palaeolithic artists have invented systems of breaking down movement and graphic narrative. His co-author, Florent Rivère, discovered that animal movement was also represented in more dynamic ways--with the use of animals drawn on a spinning disc. In these flickering images created by Palaeolithic people, the authors suggest, lie the origins of cinema.
- Subjects
FRANCE; PALEOLITHIC art; CAVE paintings; MOTION in art; AZEMA, Marc; ARCHAEOLOGY methodology; CHAUVET Cave (France); ART history
- Publication
Antiquity, 2012, Vol 86, Issue 332, p316
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00062785