Ekstasis or the stretching of the exterior by the orientating body. La Grotte Chauvet: The panel of the lions

Abstract

This is a phenomenological analysis of one of the oldest painting of mankind discovered in a French cave in 1996. The article shows how these pictures are a visible document of the development of a specific mode of bodily activity.

Keywords

• La Grotte Chauvet (France)
• phenomenology of art
• phenomenology of the living body