Book Description
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 : David Coulson
Publisher : Harry N Abrams B.V.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,33 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 : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1983-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521244602
Author : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 25,76 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.D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,90 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 : Carson I. A. Ritchie
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Mary Leakey
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Burchard Brentjes
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : A.R. Willcox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315515350
It has long been known that all forms of art – rock paintings, carvings and scribings, and also portable sculpture – are present at various locations throughout Africa. This book was the first inclusive survey and brings together in one volume accounts of African rock art which were previously scattered in scholarly monographs, journals and travellers’ tales. The range of the coverage is geophysically comprehensive, from the Atlas Mountains to the Cape of Good Hope. The art styles are set into a firm chronological framework, and are displayed against a background of human, physical and cultural evolution. Considerable discussion is also devoted to the varied purposes which the paintings and carvings served in the communities which produced them, looking at the differing interpretations fully and fairly. A fascinating collection of illustrations, some in colour, truly reflects the variety of forms in which African rock art is manifested. Originally published 1984.
Author : Renaud Ego
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1776142330
An illustrated collection that takes stock of current knowledge and proposes a new way of reading indigenous art For thousands of years, nomadic hunter-gatherers assigned a fundamental role to the visualization of the animals who shared their lives. Some, such as the Cape eland, the largest of antelopes, were the object of a fascinated gaze, as though the graceful markings and shapes of their bodies were the key to secret knowledge safeguarded by the animals’ unsettling silence. Renaud Ego posits that the artists sought to steal the animals’ secret through an act of rendering visible a vitality that remained hidden beneath appearances. In this process, the San themselves became the visionary animal who, possessing the gift of making pictures, would acquire far-seeing powers. Thanks to the singular effectiveness of their visual art, they could make intellectual contact with the world in order better to think and,ultimately, to act. They gained access to the full dimension of their human condition through painting scenes that functioned like visual contracts with spiritual and ancestral powers. Their art is an act that seeks to preserve the wholeness of existence through a respect for the relationships linking all beings, both real and imaginary,who partake of it. The fundamentally ecological dimension of this message confers on San art its universality and contemporary relevance.Visionary Animal is a translation of L’Animal voyant, published in France in 2015. This rich collection of essays is beautifully illustrated with the author’s photographs of rock art from across southern Africa.
Author : David S. Whitley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780742502567
While there has always been a large public interest in ancient pictures painted or carved on stone, the archaeological study of rock art is in its infancy. But intensive amounts of research has revolutionized this field in the past decade. New methods of dating and analysis help to pinpoint the makers of these beautiful images, new interpretive models help us understand this art in relation to culture. Identification, conservation and management of rock art sites have become major issues in historical preservation worldwide. And the number of archaeologically attested sites has mushroomed. In this handbook, the leading researchers in the rock art area provide cogent, state-of-the-art summaries of the technical, interpretive, and regional advances in rock art research. The book offers a comprehensive, basic reference of current information on key topics over six continents for archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and rock art enthusiasts.