The Cradle of Humanity - Table of Contents

July 2005
6 x 9, 210 pp., 15 illus.
$32.95/£24.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-55-2
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-55-9

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From Zone Books:
The Cradle of Humanity
Prehistoric Art and Culture
Georges Bataille
Edited by Stuart Kendall
Translated by Stuart Kendall and Michelle Kendall
Introduction by Stuart Kendall

	Editor's Introduction: The Sediment of the Possible	9

	A Note on the Translation	33

I	Primitive Art	35

II	The Frobenius Exhibit at the Salle Pleyel	45

III	A Visit to Lascaux: A Lecture at the Société d'Agriculture, Science, Belles-Lettres at Arts d'Orléans	47

IV	The Passage from Animal to Man and the Birth of Art	57

V	A Meeting in Lascaux: Civilized Man Rediscovers the Man of Desire	81

VI	Lecture, January 18, 1955	87

VII	The Lespugue Venus	105

VIII	Prehistoric Religion	121

IX	The Cradle of Humanity: The Vézère Valley	143

X	Unlivable Earth?	175

Appendix	Notes for a Film	179

	Notes	187

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