Major Rock Paintings of Southern Africa - R. Townley Johnson (PB)
Southern Africa is the richest treasury of Stone Age art in the world. Artist, conservationist and mountaineer, R Townley Johnson has spent more than 25 years copying, with infinite precision ~ even to the very texture of the rock-face — over 1 000 rock paintings, some of which have subsequently been defaced or destroyed.
Of the 106 rock paintings reproduced in this book, 60 have not been published previously and, of those that have been published, few have been reproduced at all adequately until now. Nearly half the paintings have been reproduced in full colour. Those chosen for less colourful treatment are outstanding for their composition or interest rather than for their colour.
The variety and quality of these paintings will astonish those who may have seen only a few stereotyped silhouettes of rock paintings. Dr Ray Inskeep, of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, writes in his preface, ‘Many of them are works of great artistic merit, worthy of attention not only for the fascination of their content, but also for the skill and wit of the artist... Were they on canvas or board, they would find their place among the national art treasures in most civilised countries.” Of Townley Johnson he writes: ‘I believe there is no finer Copyist. His reproductions are as close to the original as a copy can be.’
This paperback edition makes it possible for a wider public to enloy and to be encouraged to conserve these art treasures.
Creda Press 1979 Paperback
ISBN: 0-86486-077-3
Condition: Extremely Good with signs of use on spine & minor sun damage on cover.
MB (Art)
Southern Africa is the richest treasury of Stone Age art in the world. Artist, conservationist and mountaineer, R Townley Johnson has spent more than 25 years copying, with infinite precision ~ even to the very texture of the rock-face — over 1 000 rock paintings, some of which have subsequently been defaced or destroyed.
Of the 106 rock paintings reproduced in this book, 60 have not been published previously and, of those that have been published, few have been reproduced at all adequately until now. Nearly half the paintings have been reproduced in full colour. Those chosen for less colourful treatment are outstanding for their composition or interest rather than for their colour.
The variety and quality of these paintings will astonish those who may have seen only a few stereotyped silhouettes of rock paintings. Dr Ray Inskeep, of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, writes in his preface, ‘Many of them are works of great artistic merit, worthy of attention not only for the fascination of their content, but also for the skill and wit of the artist... Were they on canvas or board, they would find their place among the national art treasures in most civilised countries.” Of Townley Johnson he writes: ‘I believe there is no finer Copyist. His reproductions are as close to the original as a copy can be.’
This paperback edition makes it possible for a wider public to enloy and to be encouraged to conserve these art treasures.
Creda Press 1979 Paperback
ISBN: 0-86486-077-3
Condition: Extremely Good with signs of use on spine & minor sun damage on cover.
MB (Art)
Southern Africa is the richest treasury of Stone Age art in the world. Artist, conservationist and mountaineer, R Townley Johnson has spent more than 25 years copying, with infinite precision ~ even to the very texture of the rock-face — over 1 000 rock paintings, some of which have subsequently been defaced or destroyed.
Of the 106 rock paintings reproduced in this book, 60 have not been published previously and, of those that have been published, few have been reproduced at all adequately until now. Nearly half the paintings have been reproduced in full colour. Those chosen for less colourful treatment are outstanding for their composition or interest rather than for their colour.
The variety and quality of these paintings will astonish those who may have seen only a few stereotyped silhouettes of rock paintings. Dr Ray Inskeep, of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, writes in his preface, ‘Many of them are works of great artistic merit, worthy of attention not only for the fascination of their content, but also for the skill and wit of the artist... Were they on canvas or board, they would find their place among the national art treasures in most civilised countries.” Of Townley Johnson he writes: ‘I believe there is no finer Copyist. His reproductions are as close to the original as a copy can be.’
This paperback edition makes it possible for a wider public to enloy and to be encouraged to conserve these art treasures.
Creda Press 1979 Paperback
ISBN: 0-86486-077-3
Condition: Extremely Good with signs of use on spine & minor sun damage on cover.
MB (Art)