2021
Sophie A. de Beaune, « The beauty of technical gesture in prehistory », HAL-SHS : histoire de l'art, ID : 10670/1.fwzjz8
What relationship do prehistoric tools have between aesthetics and function? Based on the examination of an object that has the particularity of having two perpendicular planes of symmetry, the biface, Leroi-Gourhan's notion of functional aesthetics is revisited here. The author proposes the hypothesis that the gesture behind the tool is also likely to conceal a certain beauty, which is not foreign to the aesthetics of the objects themselves.