The Rock Art of Southern Africa
Author | : J. David Lewis-Williams |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1983-11-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521244602 |
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Author | : J. David Lewis-Williams |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1983-11-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521244602 |
Author | : J.D. Lewis-Williams |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : 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 | : David Coulson |
Publisher | : Harry N Abrams B.V. |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : 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 | : A. R. Willcox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Non Aboriginal material.
Author | : Renaud Ego |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : Renaud Ego |
Publisher | : Wits University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : A.R. Willcox |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2018-01-29 |
Genre | : 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 | : Anne Solomon |
Publisher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : 9780864864307 |
Richly illustrated in colour and black and white, this guide provides a clear understanding of a cultural treasure.
Author | : Siyakha Mguni |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1868147770 |
Siyakha Mguni’s personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as formlings. In Termites of the Gods, Siyakha Mguni narrates his personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as 'formlings'. Formlings are a painting category found across the southern African region, including South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, with its densest concentration in the Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe. Generations of archaeologists and anthropologists have wrestled with the meaning of this painting theme in San cosmology without reaching consensus or a plausible explanation. Drawing on San ethnography published over the past 150 years, Mguni argues that formlings are, in fact, representations of flying termites and their underground nests, and are associated with botantical subjects and a range of larger animals considered by the San to have great power and spiritual significance. This book fills a gap in rock art studies around the interpretation and meaning of formlings. It offers an innovative methodological approach for understanding subject matter in San rock art that is not easily recognisable, and will be an invaluable reference book to students and scholars in rock art studies and archaeology.
Author | : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec |
Publisher | : Flammarion-Pere Castor |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : 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.