Rock Art Of Africa
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Rock Art Of Africa
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Author : Carson I. A. Ritchie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Rock Art Of Africa written by Carson I. A. Ritchie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Africa categories.
The Rock Art Of Africa
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Author : A.R. Willcox
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-29
The Rock Art Of Africa written by A.R. Willcox and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-29 with Social Science categories.
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.
Rock Art In Africa
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Author : Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
language : en
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Release Date : 2004
Rock Art In Africa written by Jean-Loïc Le Quellec and has been published by Flammarion-Pere Castor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art, Prehistoric categories.
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.
African Rock Art
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Author : Burchard Brentjes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
African Rock Art written by Burchard Brentjes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Africa categories.
The Rock Art Of Southern Africa
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Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1983-11-03
The Rock Art Of Southern Africa written by J. David Lewis-Williams and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-11-03 with Social Science categories.
The Meaning Of South African Rock Paintings
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Author : Lenka Tucek
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2003-12-21
The Meaning Of South African Rock Paintings written by Lenka Tucek and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-21 with Art categories.
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), 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 of the Bushmen. In the fourth chapter the state of trance and the trance dance are described, which are important key parts for understanding rock art. Chapter Five shall point out the symbolism of the eland - antelope in addition to animal power in general. This symbol is of great importance and represented relatively frequent in the art. These symbols and the discussion of their meanings seem to be a representative selection, to help better understand the spiritual background of south african rock art and its meaning.
African Rock Art
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Author : David Coulson
language : en
Publisher: Harry N Abrams B.V.
Release Date : 2001
African Rock Art written by David Coulson and has been published by Harry N Abrams B.V. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
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.
Rock Art In East Africa
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Author : Alec C. Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Rock Art In East Africa written by Alec C. Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Rock paintings categories.
Visionary Animal
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Author : Renaud Ego
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Visionary Animal written by Renaud Ego and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Social Science categories.
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.
San Rock Art
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Author : J.D. Lewis-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
San Rock Art written by J.D. Lewis-Williams and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Art categories.
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.