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Préhistomania
Musée de l'homme in Paris, in collaboration with the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt
The Musée de l'homme in Paris, in collaboration with the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt, has been showing the rock art exhibition ‘Préhistomania’ from November 2023 to May 2024. Directly opposite the Eiffel Tower, ancient herds of antelopes and slender runners from southern Africa, giraffes and elephants from the once verdant Sahara and carved warriors from Bronze Age Europe were on display.
The Frobenius collection was complemented by the stories and works of French rock art explorers such as Abbé Breuil and Henri Lhote. The exhibition told the story of how scientists, intellectuals and artists set off in search of the origins of human creativity in the first decades of the 20th century. An exciting adventure in which they discover the artistic worlds of early man.
It also looks into the significant role played by prehistoric pictures in fashioning Western notions of modernity and the reception of rock art by avant-garde artists from the 1930s to the present day. Today's high-tech methods of documenting rock art rounded off the exhibition, which has enjoyed great popularity with almost 130,000 visitors and lively media interest. Le Monde Histoire has named ‘Préhistomania’ exhibition of the month, radio and press published some 150 reports among them the London Review of Books:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n09/stefanos-geroulanos/at-the-musee-de-l-homme
The exhibition catalogue is a special issue of the journal "Beaux Arts":
https://www.beauxarts.com/produit/prehistomania-tresors-mondiaux-de-lart-rupestre-de-la-grotte-au-musee/
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