Title: Prehistoric art in Europe /
Authors: Sandars, N. K.
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Art, Prehistoric Europe; Europe Antiquities
Contents: 1. The beginning -- The first sculpture (30,000-15,000) -- The first drawings (25,000-15,000) -- The beginning of relief (23,000-15,000) -- Divine image and magic drum -- 2. Upper Paleolithic art : 15,000-8000 -- Sculpture and modelling -- Magdalenian relief -- Line, shading, pattern -- Colour, perspective, illusion -- Animals dead and alive -- Situation and subject : canvas and composition -- 'The splendour of forms yet to come' -- 3. Mesolithic art : 8000-2000 -- Northern Europe -- Southern Europe -- The end of the mesolithic and the Near East -- 4. Neolithic art in Eastern Europe -- Background andp roblems : dates and stages -- A potter's and modeller's art -- Clay modelling : the human figure -- A modeller's art : other subjects -- The potter's art : skeuomorph and spiral -- The potter -- Chalcolithic Varna, copper and gold -- 5. From the Mediterranean to the Baltic : sixth to third millennium -- The western Mediterranean : Malta, Sicily, Sardinia, and Iberia -- The Atlantic West -- From the Caucasus to the Baltic -- Gods and emblems -- 6. Bronze Age art : 2000-1200 -- Metals -- The background -- Bronze Age potters of Eastern Europe -- Metallurgical schools -- The riches of the North -- Stonehenge and Irish gold -- 7. Ferment and new beginnings : 1200-500 -- The Northern arts -- 'Razor style' and the tableau in the boat -- The carved rocks -- Cast bronze figures -- Val Camonica -- Iron and Orientalizing -- Hallstatt geometric -- Sea-roads west -- 8. Continental art in the last centuries B.C. -- The background -- La Tene art -- The early style -- The second or 'Waldalgesheim' style -- The plastic style -- The sword style -- Monumental La Tene art -- South-east Europe and Gundestrup -- Pots -- 9. Insular La Tene and the problem of La Tene art -- La Tene art as language -- Triskele.