LATEST DISCOUNTS & SALES: PROMOTIONS
David Lewis-Williams is Professor Emeritus and Senior Mentor in the Rock Art Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His other books include Believing and Seeing: Symbolic Meanings in the Southern San Rock Paintings and, with Jean Clottes, The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves.
The cave art of Europe and the Americas has fascinated and intrigued anthropologists and art lovers for decades. Since the discovery of Upper Palaeolithic art in the mid-nineteenth century, the ochre figure of the running bison has become a symbol for the human race in transition: the first step out of Neanderthal darkness and the first sign of the modern mind at work. The Mind in the Cave explores the beginnings of a consciousness capable of representational imagery and investigates the societies and environmental conditions which produced it. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as biology, religion, psychology and Marxism, Lewis-Williams presents comprehensive and fascinating arguments for the development of primitive societies from their art and social structure to their agriculture and mythology. This is a lovingly researched, carefully organised and brilliantly argued work, full of unusual detail and convincing explanation. A classic in the fields of art and anthropology. (Kirkus UK)
Beyond Matter – Within Space
Curatorial and Art Mediation Techniques...
Paperback
$115
Not in-store but you can order this
Strange Hours
Photography, Memory, and the Lives...
Paperback
$49.99
Not in-store but you can order this
For What It’s Worth
Value Systems in Art since 1960...
Hardback
$89.95
Not in-store but you can order this
