Browsing Category Rock Paintings/ Bushman art
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Bank (A.) ed.
KRONOS 31,
journal of Cape history, November 2005
288 pp., illus., paperback,
Cape Town,
2005.
R190
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Articles include "History and Film: a roundtable discussion of 'Proteus'" edited by Susan Newton-King. "Proteus" is a feature film directed by Jack Lewis (South Africa) & John Greyson (Canada). Also includes "The Private Performance of Events" colonial period rock art from the Swartruggens" by Simon Hall & Aron Mazel & "Photography with a Difference: Leon Levson's camera studies and photographic exhibitions of native life in South Africa, 1947-1950" by Gary Minkley & Ciraj Rassool.
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Bassett (S.T.)
ROCK PAINTINGS OF SOUTH AFRICA,
revealing a legacy
144 pp., 4to., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w. ,
Cape Town,
2001.
OUT OF PRINT
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"Each colour plate represents a meticulously painted recording by [Stephen Townley Bassett] of a rock painting from South Africa...painstakingly rendered with natural pigments and materials collected in the field and are the results of months of on-site labour accurately recording what appears on the rock face."
Foreword by Pippa Skotnes. Essays by Royden Yates, Frans Prins, David Lewis-Williams, Sven Ouzman, Anne Solomon and Edward B.Eastwood.
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Bassett (S.T.), Lewis-Williams (D.) & Smith (B.)
RESERVOIRS OF POTENCY,
the documentary paintings of Stephen Townley Bassett
100 pp., maps, colour illus., paperback,
Johannesburg,
2008.
R250
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This book contains thirty copies of original rock paintings made by Stephen Townley Bassett using traditional implements and paints, and a chapter, "Creating the Documentary Paintings", written by the artist. Stephen Townley Bassett is a full-time artist specializing in the documentation of rock art in South Africa. He is also the author of "Rock Paintings of South Africa, revealing a legacy", published in 2001.
Also included are commentaries by Professor David Lewis-Williams and Benjamin Smith from the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand.
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Blundell (G.)
NQABAYO'S NOMANSLAND,
San rock art and the somatic past
204 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback,
Uppsala,
2004.
R210
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Geoffrey Blundell applies the concepts of body and embodiment to rock painting sites from an area previously known as Nomansland, in south eastern South Africa, in an attempt to incorporate rock paintings into the construction of San history.
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Bregin (E.) & Kruiper (B.)
KALAHARI RAIN SONG,
110 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback,
Pietermaritzburg,
2004.
R145
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Belinda Kruiper is a Cape Coloured married to Vetkat Regopstaan Longlife Kruiper, the acclaimed Bushman artist. Included in this memoir are photographic portraits of life in the #Khomani Bushman community where she lives with Vetkat as well are many reproductions of Vetkat's art.
