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Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1983-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521244609
Author : J.D. Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780821444580
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 : A. R. Willcox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015027232936
Non Aboriginal material.
Author : A.R. Willcox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315515359
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
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art, Prehistoric
ISBN : 0864864302
Richly illustrated in colour and black and white, this guide provides a clear understanding of a cultural treasure.
Author : Lenka Tucek
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638778022
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
Author : Renaud Ego
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781776142330
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 Mendel Witelson
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789692457
This book explores a suite of spatially close San (Bushmen) rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. As a suite, the sites are remarkable because, despite their proximity to each other, they share patterns of similarity and simultaneous difference.
Author : Benjamin Smith,Knut Helskog,David Morris
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781868148073
Cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. This volume contains contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research. Since this volume covers the recording, interpretation and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide audience of researchers, heritage managers and students, as well as anyone interested in the field of rock art studies.
Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0864861672
A book on the ancient rock art of the San -- the story behind the research. Ways of discovering rock art. The aesthetic approach. The narrative approach. Rediscovering the San. The interpretative approach: San beliefs. The interpretative approach: pictures in the brain. Ducks and rabbits. Battling it out. Many meanings. The broken string. Fragile heritage.
Author : Edward B. Eastwood,Cathelijne Eastwood
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0864866798
The first book of its kind to discuss the rock art of cultural groups other than the San. It gives the rock art of South Africa a wider context and greater depth than has a hitherto been apparent.
Author : H. C. Woodhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art, Prehistoric
ISBN : UOM:39015056244869
Author : Thomas A. Dowson,J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017900577
This volume brings together the work of a number of scholars in the field of rock art studies who engage the so-called trance hypothesis in terms of their own empirical data and theoretical interests.
Author : Siyakha Mguni
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868147779
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 : David Coulson,Alec C. Campbell
Publisher : Harry N Abrams B.V.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106015220954
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.