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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Renaud Ego , Deke DusinberrePublisher: Wits University Press Imprint: Wits University Press Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9781776142262ISBN 10: 1776142268 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 January 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsThe Stranger at the Summit Prologue: Observing Silence Chapter 1 Images that Transcend Myth and Ritual Chapter 2 A Nomadic Mentality Chapter 3 Spirits of the Place, Spiritual Places Chapter 4 A Fluid Tangle Chapter 5 Animals as Prism (Symbolism and Aesthetics) Chapter 6 Investing in Appearances Chapter 7 Galvanic Bodies Chapter 8 The Shimmer of Wholeness Epilogue: Believing Your Eyes Lack of Ending Notes Captions for portfolio Location of Main Areas of Paintings and Engravings The Continuum of Pictorial Vitality Index AcknowledgmentsReviewsThis is a magnificent book, at once both a poetic and a scholarly reclamation of the authority and integrity of the art in San painting [Ego] reanimates the paintings for us, reminding us that the pervasive forms of academic iconographical analysis have & decomposed them... It is a deeply moving publication. --Pippa Skotnes, author of Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of Bushmen This is a magnificent book, at once both a poetic and a scholarly reclamation of the authority and integrity of the art in San painting... [Ego] reanimates the paintings for us, reminding us that the pervasive forms of academic iconographical analysis have 'decomposed' them... It is a deeply moving publication. -Pippa Skotnes, author of Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of Bushmen Author InformationPoet, novelist and essayist Renaud Ego is a French specialist in southern African rock art, which he has studied for the past twenty years. The inventiveness of the eye and the elaboration of imagery play a central role in his writings, which include poetry, La Réalité n’a rien à voir (2007), a volume of collected essays, Une légende des yeux (2010), and a study of palaeolithic art, Le Geste du regard (2017). Deke Dusinberre is an American writer and literary translator who works in Paris. He studied film and art history in New York and over the past twenty years has translated books and catalogues on art history and other cultural subjects. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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