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Martin Edmund's poems in The High Road to Taos invite comparison to the celebrated prehistoric paintings of the Lascaux caves in France. Both include images on a huge scale, natural subjects, an undercurrent of strange spirituality, But they also leave the viewer with the sensation that the scenes and emotions they illustrate have long been dry. The reader is forced to wonder, "Has the passion, like the paint, faded with time, or is the artist receiving too much credit...
Edmunds plays it too safe, letting his emotions dry as if they were Lascaux's cave paintings, sensitive to light and life. He forgets that his work is contemporary, the worth of its preservation has yet to be proven. Hidden in distant caves it loses, its chance for glory...
Photographs of the Stone Age art show images of lions, bison, deer, bears, horses and some 50 woolly rhinos. "These paintings are more beautiful than those in Lascaux," says Patrice Baghain, the regional head of cultural affairs. "There is a sense of rhythm and texture that is truly remarkable." One mural shows several horses apparently charging-in a Stone Age mismatch-toward two rhinos...
Stung by lessons learned at Altamira and Lascaux, where initial unrestricted access to the caves obliterated archaeological clues and led to the rapid deterioration of artwork, the French Culture Ministry has put the Chauvet cave off limits to all but a handful of experts and installed video surveillance cameras and police guards at the entrance. "Our goal," says Baghain, "is to keep the cave in this virgin state so that research can, in theory, continue indefinitely...
More than 300 paintings were discovered late last year in a cave near the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in southern France, the French government has revealed. Experts say the 20,000-year-old gallery may surpass the famous grottoes at Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain. The cavern was said to be perfectly intact, with animal bones, flint knives and even footprints preserved on the floor...