‘Perhaps the most precious aspect of the caves is that they preserve a picture in which hierarchy and human-centredness don’t look to have been the organising assumptions.’ T.J. Clark on the Chauvet cave paintings, published online early from our summer issue. 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