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Capturing the Spoor describes and discusses the virtually unknown rock art of the northernmost reaches of South Africa, in the area of the Central Limpopo Basin. The title of the book comes from the belief held by some traditional Bantu-speakers that the San can ‘capture’ animal spoor and bewitch it in order to ensure hunting success. The authors use this as an analogy for understanding the behavior of people in the past through the traces they leave behind.
This book describes the work of four distinct cultural groups: the San; Khoekhoen (Khoikhoin or ‘Hottentots’), Venda and Northern Sotho, and, most recently, people of European descent. Further, it discusses the interaction and connection between the four groups. It is the first substantial body of work from South Africa to focus on an area outside the Drakensberg, which has become synonymous with ‘southern African rock art’. Although the book focuses on a specific region, it introduces anthropological information from the Cape to the greater Kalahari region. The text is interspersed with first-hand accounts of Kalahari and Okavango San beliefs and rites and discussions with traditional Bantu-speaking peoples. A distillation of 14 years of field surveying and research in the Central Limpopo Basin, it targets the general reader who would like to know more about southern Africa’s rock art traditions, but at the same time addresses many academic concerns.
A simple narrative line and copious endnotes, respectively, ensure that both ‘lay’ and academic readers will find the subject interesting. The text is abundantly illustrated with line drawings and expressed through photographs. A list of rock art sites in Limpopo that are open to the public will be included.
This is a rare publication where information that is collected is analyzed with the help of knowledge and experience accumulated by the local indigenous communities, whose have been seldom heard in this context before.
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Naive Art
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Nathalia Brodskaia, Viorel Rau
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A compelling blend of art history, social analysis, and personal
testimony, "Creative Collectives" presents a new paradigm for
understanding Chicana/o studies. By following the artistic and
ideological journeys of two groups of northern California Chicana
artists, MarA-a Ochoa argues that the women involved in these
collectives created complex images whose powerful visual social
commentary sprang from the daily experiences of their lives.
Ochoa's artistic narrative first focuses on Mujeres Muralistas,
a pathbreaking San Francisco group of mural painters organized in
the early 1970s at the height of the Chicana/o Movement. The story
then turns its attention to Co-Madres Artistas, a group of artists
who came together in the 1990s after spending decades tending their
families, becoming successful in their careers, and launching key
Chicana/o cultural institutions in the Sacramento Valley. Ochoa
tells the stories of the individual members of these collectives to
show how they combined art and activism.
Through an innovative application of oral history interviews, a
fascinating compilation of individual and collective stories
emerges. Creative Collectives is notable for its skillful weaving
of personal recollections, representational analysis of mural and
easel painting, and social movement narration.
Featuring 13 iconic paintings and prints of New York City by Jacob
Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Florine Stettheimer, John Marin, and
others, this 12-month calendar brings Gotham to life through the
eyes of artists. Explore the lush lawns of Central Park. Visit
legendary landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of
Liberty. And revel in the famed nightlife of Times Square and
Harlem. All the works included are from the world-renowned
collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Features include: 7"
x 7" (7" x 14" open)-a great size for small spaces Printed on
FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink Planning spread for
September-December 2022 Spans January-December 2023 Widely
celebrated and nationally recognized holidays and observances Moon
phases, based on Universal Time Information about each work of art
shown
Cv/VAR series 152 publishes an anthology of essays and reviews by
the eminent art historian and writer, Edward Lucie-Smith. The
articles cover a broad span, from the Italian Renaissance of Giotto
and Antonello da Messina, Leonardo and Michelangelo, progressing to
Rubens, Velazquez and Ingres, with essays on William Hogarth, John
Constable and John Everett Millais for British Art. With the
experience of his landmark publications on modern art, which remain
in print; the author sweeps the reader on a fabulous journey of
perception, disclosing the strands that bind the continuum of
classic and contemporary art.
This book tells the fascinating story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara,
the most famous animal of the eighteenth century. It accompanies
the fi rst ever major loan exhibition devoted to Clara and
celebrity pachyderms in the UK and will off er a signifi cant
contribution to scholarship on the subject. The latest in the
Barber's acclaimed objectin-focus series, Miss Clara focuses on a
small bronze sculpture of a rhinoceros, and also considers other
celebrity beasts, the emergence of menageries and zoos, and the
significance of the capture and captivity of these big beasts
within wider academic discussions of colonialism and empire. 'Miss
Clara' arrived in Europe from the Dutch East Indies in 1741,
brought by a retired Dutch East India Company captain, Douwe Mout
van der Meer, who then toured her round Europe (including England)
to huge acclaim and excitement. Jungfer Clara (so christened while
visiting Wu rzburg in 1748) was the fi rst rhino to be seen on
mainland Europe since 1579 and the object of great wonder and aff
ection. Her fame generated a massive industry in souvenirs and
imagery from life-scale paintings by major masters to cheap popular
prints; there were even Clara-inspired clocks and hairstyles. This
book will look at the phenomenon of Clara but, unlike previous
studies of the subject, will focus primarily on sculptural/3D
representations of her, within the context of other celebrity
pachyderms represented by artists between the 16th and 19th
centuries. Miss Clara is one of the most remarkable and best-loved
sculptures in the Barber and was praised by the great German art
historian and museum director Wilhelm von Bode as 'the fi nest
animal bronze of Renaissance' - a telling tribute to its quality,
even if he misunderstood its date. The Barber's cast is one of only
two known, the other being at the V&A. There are also closely
related marble versions. Other celebrity beasts featured will
include the elephants Hansken, Chunee and Jumbo; Du rer's and
various London rhinos; and the hippo Obaysch, star of London Zoo in
the 1850s, and the fi rst to be seen in Europe since the fall of
the Roman Empire. The publication will consist of entries for the
thirty exhibits - included extended texts by Dr Helen Cowie (York
University) on images of Chunee and Obaysch - preceded by three
essays. Robert Wenley, Deputy Director of the Barber Institute, and
the curator of the exhibition, will relate the story of Miss Clara
(and of other celebrity rhinos), and explore the sculptural
representations of her, presenting new research into their
attribution and dating. The eminent sculptural historian, Dr
Charles Avery, formerly of the V&AMuseum and Christie's, will
write a complementary essay about celebrity elephants in Europe
between 1500 and 1700. Dr Sam Shaw (Open University), will discuss
private menageries and public zoos between about 1760 and 1860 in
the UK, and consider celebrity pachyderms as emblems of empire and
colonialism.
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