pBack in print, emOverlayem is Lucy Lippard's classic book on contemporary art and its connection to prehistoric sites and symbols. Viewed by critics, artists, art historians, and students as the essential text on how prehistoric images have been overlayed onto contemporary art by today's artists, em Overlayem is for anyone interested in the possibility of reintegrating art into the fabric of society as a whole, as in prehistoric times.ppFrom megalithic monuments such as Stonehenge to Richard Long's minimalism, from the earliest examples of cave drawings to Ana Mendieta's Cuban site art, from the matriarchal fertility rituals of the ancient Celts to Judy Chicago's emDinner Partyem, Lippard shows a continuum in the forms, materials, symbols, and imagery that artists have employed for thousands of years.ppLavishly illustrated with over 320 black-and-white photographs and 8 pages of color images, emOverlayem includes the work of artists Carl Andre, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Smithson, Rober