Transfixed by Prehistory - An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time

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"We slip away from ourselves" : the discovery and internalization of the Earth's age (eighteenth to twentieth centuries) -- Reconstituting the antiquity of humankind and of art -- The artificiality of prehistory : a disjunctive genealogy of art -- The paradox of the Neolithic : rupture and permanence, order and disorder -- Prehistory in the Atomic Age.