With photographs by Hans Hinz and an epilogue by Rita Bischof. At a time when the animal and plant world, the ‘wild life’, seem more threatened than ever, Rita Bischof illiminates the text by Georges Bataille’s text about Lascaux. The animal paintings, which for 17,500 years waiting to be discovered in the night of the cave for 17,500 years Bataille with the question of the origin of art. His answers, which which relate fundamental concepts in an unexpected way, are in the context of prehistoric research and contemporary thought thinking in the tense relationship between technology and aesthetics.

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