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“That an institution devoted to the most recent in art should concern itself with the most ancient may seem something of a paradox,” MoMA’s founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., wrote in his preface to the catalogue for Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa. Yet, for Barr, this past had already influenced modern art, and could potentially offer museum visitors a prehistoric pedigree for it. | “That an institution devoted to the most recent in art should concern itself with the most ancient may seem something of a paradox,” MoMA’s founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., wrote in his preface to the catalogue for Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa. Yet, for Barr, this past had already influenced modern art, and could potentially offer museum visitors a prehistoric pedigree for it. | ||
=====Introduction to Prehistoric Art===== | |||
[https://viva.pressbooks.pub/arthistory/chapter/introduction-to-prehistoric-art/ by VIVA] | |||
People have been making art for at least 100,000 years. Prehistoric art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave paintings, and early sculpture and architecture. | |||
The term Prehistory refers to all of human history that precedes the invention of writing systems c. 3100 BCE and the keeping of written records, and it is an immensely long period of time, some ten million years according to current theories. For the purposes of an art history survey, we split our study of Prehistory into parts of the Stone Age: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic. | |||
