ARTISTIC APE: Three Million Years of Art

The late, great Desmond John Morris, bestselling author and internationally renowned anthropologist, here offers a unique appreciation of art from the most ancient artifact to contemporary event art. Morris was an English zoologist, ethologist, author, and surrealist painter whose 1967 bestseller The Naked Ape and popular TV programmes like Zoo Time brought human and animal behaviour to mass audiences. He merged science and art over a 70-year career, producing 90 plus books, pioneering studies on primates, and exhibiting surrealist works in major galleries, remaining active as a writer and painter into his nineties. He was a surrealist artist whose work has been exhibited alongside pieces by Spanish painter Joan Miró. Featuring more than 350 illustrations of international art, plus 12 video clips, here he combines his deep understanding of human behaviour and his love of art to create a unique personal narrative of the evolution of artistic endeavour over three million years. 20 x 26cm, well illus in colour, 320 pages.