George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts poet, historian, ethnographer, artist, cartographer, and prolific writer. A geologist by profession, he became acquainted, through his work in the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock paintings in the caves and shelters of the South African interior. Enchanted and absorbed by them, Stow set out to create a record of this creative work of the people who had tracked and marked the South African landscape decades and centuries before him. "Unconquerable Spirit "reveals the scope and the beauty of his labors. Stow s paintings are more than...
George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts poet, historian, ethnographer, artist, cartographer, and prolific writer. A geologist by profession, he ...
From the hands of Pippa Skotnes and her team who produced the beautiful and acclaimed Jacana books on the San and their rock art, Claim to the Country and Unconquerable Spirit, comes a smaller but equally handsome volume on rock art copies made by the great German ethnologist, Leo Frobenius.
From the hands of Pippa Skotnes and her team who produced the beautiful and acclaimed Jacana books on the San and their rock art, Claim to the Country...
Uncertain curature is a volume of bold and original explorations of the archive - the past, our material inheritance - and the ways it is displayed, interpreted and given meaning in the postcolonial world of South Africa. This operation on the past - what the authors have called 'curature' - can be seen as the postcolony's way of rescripting its own history, which is both a trauma to be dealt with and a resource for the future. The idea of curation is beautifully explored in a series of chapters, whose subjects include a controversial Bushman diorama, a cache of negatives found in a disused...
Uncertain curature is a volume of bold and original explorations of the archive - the past, our material inheritance - and the ways it is displayed, i...