Rock Art In Africa
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Author |
: David Coulson |
Publisher |
: Harry N Abrams B.V. |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106015220954 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Rock Art by : David Coulson
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 |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106017794865 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rock Art in Africa by : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
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 |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1983-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521244609 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521244602 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rock Art of Southern Africa by : J. David Lewis-Williams
Author |
: J. David Lewis-Williams |
Publisher |
: Jacana Media |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781431401000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1431401005 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis San Rock Art by : J. David Lewis-Williams
Rock paintings by the San Bushmen are scattered over all of southern Africa; it is estimated that some 15,000 rock art sites are known and possibly as many await discovery. While providing information about the history of these fascinating paintings—considered one of the greatest cultural treasures of humankind—this account also offers insight into their possible interpretations by taking the magnificent Linton panel in the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town as a starting point. Filled with beautiful illustrations, this record sheds light on San rock art in general and makes sense of the baffling complexity and strangeness of the art form.
Author |
: A.R. Willcox |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2018-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315515359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315515350 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rock Art of Africa by : A.R. Willcox
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 |
: Mary Leakey |
Publisher |
: Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015006581691 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa's Vanishing Art by : Mary Leakey
Author |
: Bruno David |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1185 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190607357 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190607351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art by : Bruno David
Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.
Author |
: Burchard Brentjes |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015061396035 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Rock Art by : Burchard Brentjes
Author |
: Carson I. A. Ritchie |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 1979 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106014586819 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rock Art of Africa by : Carson I. A. Ritchie
Author |
: Lenka Tucek |
Publisher |
: GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 29 |
Release |
: 2007-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783638778022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3638778029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Meaning of South African Rock Paintings by : Lenka Tucek
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Art - Painting, grade: 1 (A), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (Faculty of Arts), course: Course: South African Archaeology and Ethno-history (SA 301), 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: One aspect of the wealth of material evidence left behind by the early people are the pictures in south african rock art. They occur in paintings and engravings. In 1996 the total number of sites in South Africa was estimated to be a little over 10 000 but the actual number of sites is significantly undercounted. It is still not known exactly when the artists started to make rock art, although new techniques of radiocarbon dating, using very small samples of paint, open the possibility of an absolute chronology. The oldest example of rock art in Africa was found in 1969 by Eric Wendt in the southern region of Namibia at a site called Apollo 11. After various datings, mainly with the radiocarbon method, archaeologists concluded that the rock art tradition in southern africa is at least 27 500 years old. In South Africa the oldest dated rock art is an engraving in the Northern Cape which was found on a small slab of dolomite at the Wonderwerk Cave south of Kuruman. It has a radiocarbon date of c.10 200 BP. Rock paintings are found in the mountainous parts of the subcontinent in abundant rock shelters and shallow overhangs, while engravings were generally made on the interior plateau of South Africa. There are about 1600 paintings in South Africa. In this assignment I will focus on the meaning of rock paintings, on the specific symbols and their importance for the early people. In Chapter Two, I provide a short introduction about the artists and their methods. Then I will explain the three important approaches to reveal the meaning of rock art described by Lewis - Williams and give some examples of misinterpretations of rock paintings. Chapter Three deals with the spiritual world and shamanism in the society