African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone. (eye).(Review)

From: Black Issues Book Review | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: Williams, Stacey | Copyright information

African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone by Alec Campbell, photographs by David Coulson Harry N. Abrams, Inc., May 2001, $60.00, ISBN 0-811-094363-8

Two new books on African art, Dogon: Africa's People of the Cliffs by cultural anthropologist Walter E. A. van Beek and African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone by rock art specialist Alec Campbell, contribute luminous contextual photographs to the long-standing discourse on Africa's visual impact on th...

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