Author : David Coulson
Publisher : Harry N Abrams B.V.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN :
Contains more than two hundred photographs of Africa's rock art, coupled with historical and interpretive analyses, compiled to raise public awareness of the variety, importance, and frailty of these works.
Author : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN :
The only book of its kind to examine cave art throughout Africa. The paintings and engravings discovered in African caves are amazing works of art that hold clues to understanding the history of humankind.
Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 1983-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521244602
Author : J.D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0821444581
San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just as many still awaiting discovery. Taking as his starting point the magnificent Linton panel in the Iziko-South African Museum in Cape Town, J. D. Lewis-Williams examines the artistic and cultural significance of rock art and how this art sheds light on how San image-makers conceived their world. It also details the European encounter with rock art as well as the contentious European interaction with the artists’ descendants, the contemporary San people.
Author : Renaud Ego
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781776142262
This collection of essays on themes such as rain animals and therianthropes focuses on myth and ritual in San rock art. Visionary Animal details the ancient rock art of southern Africa and the significance of the animals depicted in it. Their significance is emphasized with their frequency and meaning can be found in the relationship of these animals and humans. Visionary Animal explores two fundamental categories of anthropology – myth and ritual which have defined the well-established iconological tradition of San rock art interpretation. This richly illustrated collection of essays explores themes such as rain animals and therianthropes that combine human and animal bodies from this point of view.
Author : Iain Davidson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789209218
Dating back to at least 50,000 years ago, rock art is one of the oldest forms of human symbolic expression. Geographically, it spans all the continents on Earth. Scenes are common in some rock art, and recent work suggests that there are some hints of expression that looks like some of the conventions of western scenic art. In this unique volume examining the nature of scenes in rock art, researchers examine what defines a scene, what are the necessary elements of a scene, and what can the evolutionary history tell us about storytelling, sequential memory, and cognitive evolution among ancient and living cultures?
Author : Neville Agnew
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Cultural property
ISBN :
Author : Jane Bingham
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410921055
Looks at the art of Africa including pottery, baskets, and wood carving and explains what we can learn about the culture of Africa while examining these art forms.
Author : Tim Forssman
Publisher : 30 Degrees South Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art, Prehistoric
ISBN : 9781920143558
Bushman Rock Art is the first of its kind. Never before has rock art been so dissected and presented in such an easy-to-understand, interpretive manner, exploring the deep symbolic meaning behind the art and what these powerful images meant to Bushman artists.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Painting, Prehistoric
ISBN :
