Rocking art, ancient and modern
On the trail of the 1928/29 Frobenius expedition
My three-part series on the little-known Frobenius expedition which made over 1 000 copies of southern African rock art nearly a century ago, in 1928 and 1929. Published by the Mail & Guardian in December/January, 2022/3.
Frobenius, controversial in his time as he is to the present day, amassed copies of African rock art from twelve such expeditions, in the process influencing the avant garde of the emerging modernism.
Rediscovering southern Africa’s rock art treasures.
https://mg.co.za/news/2022-12-25-rediscovering-southern-africas-rock-art-treasures/
Being Leo Frobenius: between lunacy and scholarship.
https://mg.co.za/news/2022-12-31-between-lunacy-and-scholarship-being-leo-frobenius
Copies of rock art treasures a homage to magnificence.
https://mg.co.za/news/2023-01-08-copies-of-rock-art-treasure-trove-a-homage-to-magnificence/