Hard cover in protected DJ. University of Washington Press 1995. 176 pages.
Slight yellowing of pages but othewise in vey good condition with no inscriptions. Please feel free to ask questions.
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" The Rock paintings of Zimbabwe are perhaps the least-known artistic teasures of Africa. In their abundance, variety, complexity, accuracy of observation, delicacy of execution and richness of symbolism, they are unsurpassed by any prehistoric art. This book, through detailed comparative analyses of a large number of these paintings, never before studied or illustrated, shows how the subjects were selected, how the paintings were executed, and the conventions that determined thei styles and forms.
The paintings are thousands of years old, and the cultue of the stone age hunters and foragers who created them was extinguished so long ago that it does not survive even as a distant memory.
However, though an undestanding of the basic tenets of San Societies that have been recorded or still survive in the Kalahari Desert and its fringes, the author has reconstructed something of the significance of the paintings to their creators. He places them in the context of the life and beliefs of the society that created them, explores the perceptions and ideas that they represent and interprets some of their symbolism.
This personal exploration of an artistic tradition that has hitherto been disregarded or misunderstood reveals an unexpected artistic and conceptual richness in a people that were long despised. It is illustrated throughout with the authors superb detailed tracings of the paintings and a selection of color photographs, the vast majority published here for the first time."
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