Rock Art and Its Legacy in Myth and Art - Baumer, Christoph; Weber, Therese
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Rock art is the oldest artistic expression of mankind. The first creation of these rock carvings ("petroglyphs") and rock paintings ("pictographs") by homo-sapiens represented in multiple aspects a real quantum leap in mental performance. In Rock Art and Its Legacy in Myth and Art explorer Christoph Baumer tells the story of these remarkable phenomena of early human imagination, taking in examples from Central Asia and the Caucasus through to Arabia and the Sahara. Baumer examines petroglyphs created on natural rock surfaces or inside prehistoric caves, by engraving, carving or scratching…mehr

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Rock art is the oldest artistic expression of mankind. The first creation of these rock carvings ("petroglyphs") and rock paintings ("pictographs") by homo-sapiens represented in multiple aspects a real quantum leap in mental performance. In Rock Art and Its Legacy in Myth and Art explorer Christoph Baumer tells the story of these remarkable phenomena of early human imagination, taking in examples from Central Asia and the Caucasus through to Arabia and the Sahara. Baumer examines petroglyphs created on natural rock surfaces or inside prehistoric caves, by engraving, carving or scratching techniques using lithic or metallic tools and explores their meanings through local myths and legends and ceramic artefacts of the time. Vividly illustrated throughout with 150 full colour images, the book celebrates the legacy of these petroglyphs as a means of expression, of communication, of recording events and coded messages as well as an element within rituals for tens of thousands of years down to the present.
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Autorenporträt
Christoph Baumer is a leading explorer and historian of Central Asia, Tibet and the Caucasus and the author of many well-received books in the fields of history, religion, archaeology and travel. These include, among others, The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity (2006), Traces in the Desert: Journeys of Discovery across Central Asia (2008), China's Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey into the Heart of Buddhism (2011) and the seminal History of Central Asia in four volumes (2012-2018) all published by I.B.Tauris. Dr Baumer is President of the Society for the Exploration of EurAsia, Senior Research Fellow at the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Explorers' Club, New York, the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London. He is a recipient of the prestigious Sir Percy Sykes Medal, awarded to him by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in 2015. Therese Weber is one of the most important protagonists of Paper Art. The Swiss artist weaves photography, drawing, object and performative actions into an innovative visual language. Expeditions to the Far East and to Central and Southeast Asia have shaped her artistic research focus over the past thirty years.