Visionary Animal: Rock Art from Southern Africa

An illustrated collection that takes stock of current knowledge and proposes a New. way of reading indigenous art. For thousands of years, nomadic hunter-gatherers assigned a fundamental role to the visualization of the animals who shared their lives. Some, such as the Cape eland, the largest of antelopes, were the object of a fascinated gaze, as though the graceful markings and shapes of their bodies were the key to secret knowledge safeguarded by the animals unsettling silence.

Hardcover. English. Witwatersrand University Press. 2019. ISBN: 1776142268. 326 pp. Very good. Book No: 2504458