Life of Bone - The Taung Fossil and Thre South African Artists (Paperback)

Life of Bone brings into sharp relief, and interrogates, the abutting practices of the scientific and the artistic, practices which have co-existed since the beginning of our species. It's based on an exhibition, scheduled to open in May 2011 at the Origins Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand. This exhibition will display the original fossil skull of the Taung child hominid alongside artworks by Joni Brenner, Gerhard Marx and Karel Nel made specifically in response to these evolutionarily significant remains. This unique combination of paleoanthropological finds and art prompts a range of enquiries on the nature of both artistic and scientific disciplines, and encourages a dialogue between the very distant historic and the contemporary.

General

Imprint:	Wits University Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	August 2011
Editors:	Joni Brenner • Elizabeth Burroughs • Karel Nel
Dimensions:	260 x 210 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-86814-539-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Palaeontology > General Books > Promotion > Wits University Press
LSN:	1-86814-539-5
Barcode:	9781868145393

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