‘By the time Chauvet was painted the figure-field dialogue, and its power as an organiser of possible worlds, had clearly been the subject of long theory and practice. These are sophisticated performances.’ T.J. Clark on the Chauvet cave paintings, new online. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · Night Visitors: What I saw in the caveThe world exceeds us. It comes to us out of darkness. The cave is the universe, the nightly presence of that unknown...www.lrb.co.uk