FEATURING - The Lie of the Land: representations of the South African Landscape by Michael Godby

The Special Collections Book of the Week this week is:

The Lie of the Land: representations of the South African Landscape by Michael Godby.

This book includes four essays on different aspects of the South African Landscape. Landscape is both the oldest and most popular type of art in this country. Landscape commemorated the first contacts of European explorers at the Cape, and is still widely practised throughout the country to this day. The representation of Landscape has taken many forms, not just because the physical geography of South Africa is so varied, but because different groups, and different individual artists, at different times, have wanted to communicate different things about their natural environment.

Catalogue Access: https://univofpretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/658159680

This book is available at Special Collections, housed on level 5 of the Merensky 2 Library, and is part of our Tukkiana (TUK) Collection.

The Special Collections unit of the Department of Library Services plays a stewardship role in the acquisition and preservation of the Library's rare and valuable information resources, making them accessible to students, staff and researchers, as well as safeguarding them for future generations.