Images in Stone

Muench, David; Schaafsma, Polly

ISBN 10: 156313442X / ISBN 13: 9781563134425

Published by Browntrout Pub, 1995

About this Item

Near fine book and jacket.

Seller Inventory # 119396

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Images in Stone
• Publisher: Browntrout Pub
• Publication Date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 156313442X
• ISBN 13: 9781563134425
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

Presents Muench's beautiful photos of the petroglyphs and pictographs chipped, chiseled, and painted in prehistoric and historic times onto boulders and rock walls in the Southwest and in California, Baja California, and the Columbia River gorge. Anthropologist Polly Schaafsma provides an introductory essay and commentary on the background of the people who created the rock art and the world they inhabited. References, an index, and perhaps a few maps would have extended the value of this reference. 12x12.5" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About the Author

DAVID MUENCH began his photographic career in the mid-fifties in the new style of Western landscape photography pioneered by his father, Josef Muench. In the intervening half-century, David Muench has done more than any other color photographer to define the iconography of the Western wilderness in forty solo books, including three with BrownTrout.

Dr. POLLY DIX SCHAAFSMA is a research associate in the Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the author of numerous books and papers on Southwest North American Indian art.