Figuring It Out

by Colin Renfrew

Book Overview

These questions were posed by Paul Gauguin in a famous canvas painted in Tahiti that heralded the beginning of the modernist era. But they are also the questions asked by modern prehistorians in their quest to reconstruct the human story. In Figuring It Out, Colin Renfrew investigates the profound convergence between the two disciplines, drawing illuminating parallels between the way the modern artist seeks to understand the world by acting upon it,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500051143
• ISBN13: 9780500051146
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 10.2"