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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN-100292736762
ISBN-139780292736764
eBay Product ID (ePID)555682
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Book TitleRock Art of Texas Indians
Number of Pages253 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1966
TopicArchaeology
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science
AuthorForrest Kirkland
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight52.6 Oz
Item Length12 in
Item Width9 in
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Dewey Decimal419
Table Of ContentPreface- 1. Forrest Kirkland and his Paintings- 2. An Introduction to Rock Art- 3. A Survey of the World's Rock Art- 4. The Lower Pecos: Ancient Paintings- 5. The Lower Pecos: Later Art- 6. The Big Bend- 7. Central Texas-The Eastern Periphery- 8. Hueco Tanks and the Panhandle- 9. A Summing Up- Appendix: Texas Memorial Museum Reference Numbers for Kirkland Sketches- Bibliography- Index
SynopsisThe Rock Art of Texas Indians has been long out-of-print, and first editions are rare and costly. This reproduction of that edition will make a monumental and classic work available to a whole new generation of readers. After viewing Indian rock paintings on a bluff above the Concho River near Paint Rock, Texas, in 1934, the late Dallas artist Forrest Kirkland was seized with an idea. He wrote later, "Here was a veritable gallery of primitive art at the mercy of the elements and the hands of a destructive people. In a few more years only the hundreds of deeply carved names and smears of modern paint would remain to mark the site of the paintings left by the Indians.... What was at first merely a suggestion in my mind soon became a solemn command. I was a trained artist able to make accurate copies of these Indian paintings. I should save them from total ruin." Kirkland devoted a good part of the rest of his life to copying pictographs and petroglyphs at some eighty far-flung sites in Texas. In The Rock Art of Texas Indians , his meticulous watercolor copies of this rich and diversified art are reproduced, thirty-two in full color, the rest in black and white. The informative and engaging text is contributed by W. W. Newcomb, Jr., former director of the Texas Memorial Museum and author of The Indians of Texas. The petroglyphs and pictographs reproduced here, states Professor Newcomb, "are relatively rare and absolutely irreplaceable human documents. They can often reveal much about the ways of ancient men, including aspects of life which otherwise would forever go unrecorded, for they may illustrate how a vanished, nameless people perceived themselves and their world, their relation to God and to each other, and their fantasies and fears. They are, then, a treasure to be valued and a heritage to be preserved.", After viewing Indian rock paintings on a bluff above the Concho River near Paint Rock, Texas, in 1934, the late Dallas artist Forrest Kirkland was seized with an idea. He wrote later, "Here was a veritable gallery of primitive art at the mercy of the elements and the hands of a destructive people. In a few more years only the hundreds of deeply carved names and smears of modern paint would remain to mark the site of the paintings left by the Indians. . . . What was at first merely a suggestion in my mind soon became a solemn command. I was a trained artist able to make accurate copies of these Indian paintings. I should save them from total ruin."Kirkland devoted a good part of the rest of his life to copying pictographs and petroglyphs at some eighty far-flung sites in Texas. In The Rock Art of Texas Indians, his meticulous watercolor copies of this rich and diversified art are reproduced, 32 in full color, the rest in black and white. The informative and engaging text is contributed by W. W. Newcomb, Jr., former director of the Texas Memorial Museum and author of The Indians of Texas.The petroglyphs and pictographs reproduced here, states Professor Newcomb, "are relatively rare and absolutely irreplaceable human documents. They can often reveal much about the ways of ancient men, including aspects of life which otherwise would forever go unrecorded, for they may illustrate how a vanished, nameless people perceived themselves and their world, their relation to God and to each other, and their fantasies and fears. They are, then, a treasure to be valued and a heritage to be preserved."
LC Classification NumberE78.T4K5 1996
Text byNewcomb, W. W., Jr.
