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Featured are the Swimming Reindeer (13,000 years old), the so‐called Willendorf Venus (25,000 years old) and the Vogelherd horse (32,000 years old), examining them in a new light. This compelling narrative is also illustrated with a wealth of contextual images, from classical sculpture to twentieth‐century painting and even contemporary advertising campaigns, which demonstrate surprising aesthetic parallels between these ancient works and familiar modern pieces. 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These astounding works, some dating back to around 23,000 years ago, reveal the deep roots of drawing, sculpture and modelling in the era of the great painted caves of Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain. This period may be described as a renaissance in the applied and fine arts of people who had narrowly avoided extinction in the harsh cold of the Last Glacial Maximum, who then asserted their ways of life through art. Seven thematic sections explore specific artworks, highlighting the skill and vision of artists through objects such as an ingeniously sculpted spear thrower made around 13,500 years ago in the form of a mammoth (illustrated above). The final section delves into the alternative world of a painted cave.    The imagery in this book conjures up a lost time when people were part of and dependent on nature and showed their respect for it through beautiful, closely observed images of animals. 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