Hidden Thunder: Rock Art of the Upper Midwest

In Hidden Thunder, archaeologist Robert "Ernie" Boszhardt and renowned watercolor artist Geri Schrab give readers an upcloseandpersonal look at rock art. With an eye toward preservation, Schrab and Boszhardt take you with them as they research, document, and interpret the ancient petroglyphs and pictographs made my Native Americans in past millennia. In addition to publicly accessible sites such as Minnesota's Jeffers Petroglyphs and Wisconsin's RocheaCri State Park, Hidden Thunder covers the artistic treasures found at several remote and inaccessible rock art sites--revealing the ancient stories through words, fullcolor photographs, and artistic renditions.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Geri Schrab is an awardwinning watercolor artist whose sole artistic focus is Native American rock art sites. She has twenty years of experience visiting and painting rock art sites across North America and Australia, with an emphasis on Wisconsin and the greater Lake Superior region. Robert "Ernie" Boszhardt is a professional archaeologist with more than forty years of experience, the vast majority in Wisconsin. He worked for the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse for nearly thirty years and is now an independent archaeologist and an honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Geri Schrab, Robert F. Boszhardt
• Verlag: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2016
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Kunstgeschichte
• EAN: 9780870207679
• ISBN: 978-0-87020-767-9
• Anzahl Seiten: 160
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 20.6 x 23.1 x 2.3 cm
• Gewicht (Verpackung): 930 g
• Themen: Kunstgeschichte, Indien, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Amerikanische Geschichte, Amerika, Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Prähistorische Kunst, Art & Art Instruction, Bezug zu indigenen Völkern, ART / History / Prehistoric, ART / Indigenous Art of the Americas, Kunst: allgemeine Themen, HISTORY / Indigenous / General