"In the end, it's like a private portable art gallery, " says the Getty's curator of manuscripts.
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"Portable art " can be more accurately dated than cave art since it is found in the same deposits as tools and other ice age artefacts.
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Doris Kraushaar will present a selection of her works in an exhibition entitled Tragbare Kunst ( Portable Art ) at the Goethe Institut from Feb 12 to 28.
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From the Upper Palaeolithic through the Mesolithic, cave paintings and portable art such as figurines and beads predominated, with decorative figured workings also seen on some utilitarian objects.
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His work is deeply informed by a study of portable art, and in 2007 / 2008 he visited many of the painted caves in the Dordogne region of France.
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The earliest examples of portable art from what is now Scotland are highly decorated carved stone balls from the Neolithic period, which share patterns with Irish and Scottish stone carvings.
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It's a little snapshot of the time when it all began, when painters like Johnny Warangkula were experimenting with the transition from traditional sand and body painting to portable art.
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The cave also yielded an unusual set of portable art on pebbles, with abstract forms that, in one case, suggested to the researchers resembled the Venus figurines found elsewhere in Paleolithic Europe.
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More than 100 incised stones and one engraved bone have been recovered and the oldest, dating from the Clovis period, may represent the earliest portable art from a secure context in North America.
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A sense of grandeur domesticated also marks " African Design : Heirs to the Trans-Saharan Tradition, " which concentrates on the portable art of the great north-south trade routes.
