Bushman Art of Southern Africa by H. C. Woodhouse

Bushman Art of Southern Africa (Illustrated Guide to 40 Bushman Rock-Art Sites)

A richly illustrated field guide to forty of southern Africa's most significant Bushman rock-art sites

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Bushman Art of Southern Africa: 40 significant Bushman rock-art sites
• Author: H. C. Woodhouse
• Publisher: Art Publishers
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN-13: 9781874964179
• ISBN-10: 1874964173
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated black paper wrappers, perfect bound, with a colour rock-painting illustration to the front cover.
• Physical Format: Large softcover, roughly A4 in size. Heavily illustrated with colour photographs throughout.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Wraps: The black illustrated wrappers carry a colour rock-painting image to the front. The spine is intact, with small white flecks of wear along its edge. The lower fore-edge corner of the front cover is bumped and slightly scuffed, with the black coating worn through to show white. The edges are slightly rubbed. The back cover is clean apart from a barcode sticker.
• Interior: The pages are intact and the binding appears tight. A water stain or tide mark runs along the outer edge at the Introduction page, and another along the fore-edge of page 47 (Northern Province). The copyright page has a small mark near the top and minor soiling. Page 15 shows slight toning and a small spot at the fore-edge. The text block edges are slightly toned.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

Bushman Art of Southern Africa: 40 Significant Bushman Rock-Art Sites is an illustrated guide to forty of the most important rock-art sites in southern Africa. It opens with an introduction to the art and its makers, then takes the reader region by region through the sites.

Colour photographs of the paintings and their landscapes accompany the text throughout, and the book closes with a list of site contacts and visiting details, making it useful both as an armchair introduction and as a practical companion for visiting the sites.

The author, H. C. Woodhouse, was a committee member and past chairman of the Witwatersrand Centre of the South African Archaeological Society and wrote widely on rock art. This guide is a worthwhile collectible copy for those who study or collect Africana, archaeology and the rock art of the subcontinent.

Author Profile: H. C. Woodhouse

H. C. (Bert) Woodhouse (1919–2011) was a South African student of rock art. He served on the committee of the Witwatersrand Centre of the South African Archaeological Society and was its past chairman. He co-authored Art on the Rocks of Southern Africa.

His other publications include When Animals Were People, The Rain and its Creatures (1992) and The Rock Art of the Golden Gate and Clarens Districts (1996). His earlier book on the subject, The Bushman Art of Southern Africa, appeared in 1979.

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