Collect Sumer Documented By André Parrot Distributed As Volume

of wonderful images which I why I have given it a high rating, However I did found the text rather too light and like many French writers given to flamboyant descriptions like 'here all is blind ferocity, elemental chaos'.
That may be how a modern art critic may see some of these images but I wanted to know about ancient sensibilities.
The author gives us a history of art that is restricted to style, figuration and form but with no real content as to the meanings attached to ancient icons.
it was perfect! I do like it!
and recommend everybody interested in art or ancient history to read it!
it is full of pictures of amazing masterpieces from Prehistoric,Sumerian, Akkadian, NeoSumerian, Amorite"Babylonian", Kassite and Elamite arts!
it would take you to the atmosphere of that times! The life of Malraux is a real cemetery.
Suicide of his grandparents and greatgrandparents, the death of his younger brother atmonths, the death of Roland his

other brother inin the boat which brought back him from concentration camp, the Spanish civil war, WWII.
. . And if that were not enough, Claude his halfbrother shot by the Nazis, Josette, his only true love, the mother of his children, dies in an accident of trainHis two sons die in an automobile accident.

Then Malraux writes on art, He is interest in all the times, all the countries, All that man could produce of beautiful think interested him, like if art was the ultimate rampart with nothingness.

His last idea, this collection, "Universe of the form" carried out with UNESCO, To ask specialists to write a monograph on one period or a civilisation, This volume is one of the first, but now there is around fifty of them , from archaÎc Greece to Persian, from Africa to Océania.
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I inherited my aunt the first edition, When I read this book, when I see these photographs, I think of these cretins who destroyed the Assyrian bulls.
And I think that the beauty is a weapon against the morons who dynamite Palmyre, who cuts the throat of, those who oppress the women.

Malraux is right, art, forms, all what man created of beautiful moves away us from barbary, It is why they will lose, .