The Rock Art of Arizona, Franklin Gold Medal Winner by Ekkehart Malotki
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The Rock Art of Arizona, Franklin Gold Medal Winner by Ekkehart Malotki :
$9.75
The Rock Art of Arizona:
Art for Life\'s Sake
by Ekkehart new copy of this double gold medal Benjamin Franklin award winner. Retails for $35.00Description:
·Review
·A comprehensive book on the rock artof Arizona was missing. Ekkehart Malotki has now provided it and he has done itbeautifully. Thanks to his superb photographs, readers will be amazed at thewealth and splendor of what is undoubtedly one of the most impressivecollections of rock art paintings and engravings in the world, set inincredible landscapes that played a vital part in their significance. Theauthor also stresses the various functions and meanings of the art insofar aswe can comprehend them. As he did so simply and clearly, general readers, rockart enthusiasts and specialists will all be deeply interested in this landmarkpublication. --Jean Clottes, president of IFRAO (international Federation ofRock Art Organizations)A journey through this volume is an experience that will transport the readerto places unknown, compliments or Malotki\'s extraordinary photography, elegantprose, and original insights that only someone with his field acumen couldproduce. This intelligent, well-crafted synopsis fills a void in the rock artliterature of the Southwest. It is destined to become a classic. --HenryWallace, Senior Research Archaeologist, Center for Desert ArchaelogyThis is more than a collection of amazing, beautiful, andsensitively-photographed images--most never seen before. As if that was notenough, Malotki also gives us a wide-ranging, well-researched analysis andinterpretation of those Arizona images, setting them into the worldwide corpusand discourse of rock art. Whatever one\'s level of interest and knowledge ofthe subject, this book will be a revelation of the marvel--and deepimportance--or human art making. --Ellen Dissanayake, Author of HomoAestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why
·About theAuthor
·Ekkehart Malotki is professor emeritusof languages at Northern Arizona University where he taught German, Latin, andHopi from 1977 until 2004. For more than twenty-five years, his work as anethnolinguist focused on the preservation of Hopi language and culture. Inaddition to over a dozen bilingual works on Hopi semantics and oral literature,he has published three children\'s books based on authentic Hopi stories. Forover ten years, he was the principal data contributor to the HopiDictionary/Hopikwa Lavaytutuveni. He also provided the Hopi titles, includingthat of Koyaanisqatsi, to Godfrey Reggio\'s movie trilogy on our destructivebehavior toward this planet. Among his most recent publications are Earth Fire:A Hopi Legend of the Sunset Crater Eruption, Hopi Tales of Destruction, andKokopelli: The Making of an Icon. During the last fifteen years, his passionfor rock art has taken him to the Sahara, to the Paleolithic caves in France,to Italy, Scandinavia and Mexico, and twice to Australia. In addition, he hasdevoted much of his time to the photography and interpretation of the rock artof the American Southwest. Both of his rock art works have received prestigiousawards. Tapamventi: The Rock Art Galleries of Petrified Forest and beyond,co-authored by Patricia McCreery, won an award of excellence from the NationalPark Service, and Stone Chisel and Yucca Brush: Colorado Plateau Rock Art,co-authored by Donald E. Weaver, a Benjamin Franklin Award winner. by Turbo Lister
The Rock Art of Arizona, Franklin Gold Medal Winner by Ekkehart Malotki :
$9.75