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050 00 $aN5310$b.B382 2005
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100 1 $aBataille, Georges,$d1897-1962.
245 14 $aThe cradle of humanity :$bprehistoric art and culture /$cGeorges Bataille ; edited and introduced by Stuart Kendall ; translated by Michelle Kendall and Stuart Kendall.
260 $aNew York :$bZone Books ;$aCambridge, Mass. :$bDistributed by MIT Press,$cc2005.
300 $a210 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 187-210) and index.
505 00 $tEditor's introduction : the sediment of the possible -- $gI.$tPrimitive art -- $gII.$tThe Frobenius exhibit at the Salle Pleyel -- $gIII.$tA visit to Lascaux : a lecture at the Societe d'Agriculture, Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts d'Orleans -- $gIV.$tThe passage from animal to man and the birth of art -- $gV.$tA meeting in Lascaux : civilized man rediscovers the man of desire -- $gVI.$tLecture, January 18, 1955 -- $gVII.$tThe Lespugue Venus -- $gVIII.$tPrehistoric religion -- $gIX.$tThe cradle of humanity : the Vezere Valley -- $gX.$tUnlivable earth? -- $tNotes for a film.
520 1 $a"The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects Georges Bataille's essays and lectures spanning thirty years of his research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history - with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille's reflections on the possible origins of humanity concur with the intensified threat of its possible extinction." "For Bataille, prehistory is universal history; it is the history of a human community prior to its fall into separation, into nations and races. The art of prehistory offers the earliest traces of nascent yet fully human consciousness - of consciousness not yet fully separated from natural flora and fauna nor from the energetic forces of the universe. A play of identities, the art of prehistory is the art of a consciousness struggling against itself, of a human spirit struggling against brute animal physicality. Prehistory is the cradle of humanity, the birth of tragedy." "Bataille reaches beyond disciplinary specializations to imagine a moment when thought was universal. Bataille's work provides a model for interdisciplinary inquiry in our own day, a universal imagination and thought for our own potential community. The Cradle of Humanity speaks to philosophers and historians of thought, to anthropologists interested in the history of their discipline and in new methodologies, to theologians and religious comparatists interested in the origins and nature of man's encounter with the sacred, and to art historians and aestheticians grappling with the place of prehistory in the canons of art."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aArt, Prehistoric.
700 1 $aKendall, Stuart.
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