The 2019-2020 Read
Underland
by Robert Macfarlane
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come—Underland takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind.(Norton website)
Bibliographies from Red Dancers: Art Emerging from the Darkness
Anthropomorphic Cave Paintings
Sarah Bromberg
Jean Clottes, Cave Art (Phaidon, 2008). ISBN 10: 0714845922 ISBN 13: 9780714845920
Hein Bjerk, “On the Outer Fringe of the Human World: Phenomenological Perspectives on Anthropomorphic Cave Paintings in Norway.” In: Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Robin Skeates, eds., Caves in Context (Oxbow Books, 2012): 48-64.
David Bruno, Cave Art (Thames & Hudson, 2017).
Trond Lodoen and Gro Mandt, The Rock Art of Norway (Windgather Press, 2015).
Christine Desdemaines-Hugon, Stepping Stones: A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne (Yale University Press, 2010).
Shamanic Masks
Sally Moore
Masks: Faces of Culture, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Abrams Inc, Ny, NY, 1999.
The Living Tradition of Yup’ik Masks, Ann Fienup-Riordan, U. of Washington Press, 1996.
Shamanic Voices, a Survey of Visionary Narratives, Loan Halifax, Ph.D., Penguin Arcana, 1979.
The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, Doubleday, NY, NY, 1988.
Online Source for bird man shaman with grouse on shaft and The Sorcerer:
Ancient Origins: Reconstructing the story of Humanity’s Past https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/shamanic-explorations-supernatural-realms-cave-art-earliest-folklore-007027
Online source for photo of shaman drum
Thuleian Tupa – shows pictures from book, Die Lappische Zaubertrommel I – II
(The Lappish Magic Drum) by Swedish ethnographer Ernst Manker. https://www.thuleia.com/shamandrum.html
The Tassili Mushroom Shaman https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/algerian-cave-paintings-suggest-humans-did-magic-mushrooms-9000-years-ago.html
Robert MacFarlane and the Long Arc of Prehistoric Cave Art: Select Bibliography
Jessica Robey
Bataille, Georges. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture. New York, 2009.
Bataille, Georges. Erotisim: Death and Sensuality (1957), trans. Mary Dalwood. San Francisco, 1986.
Bjerk, Hein. “On the Outer Fringe of the Human World: Phenomenological Perspectives on Anthropomorphic Cave Paintings in Norway,” in Knut Andreas Bergsvik and Robin Skeates, eds. Caves in Context: The Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe. Oxford, 2012.
Clottes, Jean and Lewis-Williams, David. The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves, trans. S. Hawkes. New York, 1998.
Conkey, Margaret W. “Beyond Art and Between the Caves: Thinking About Context in the Interpretive Process,” in George Nash and Aron Mazel, eds., Narratives and Journeys in Rock Art: A Reader. Oxford, 2019.
Curtis, Gregory. The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World’s First Artists. New York, 2006
Lewis-Williams, David. The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art. London, 2002.
Norsted, Terje. “The Cave Paintings of Norway.” https://www.rockartscandinavia.com/images/articles/a13norstedt.pdf
Palacio-Pérez, Eduardo. “The Origins of the Concept of ‘Paleolithic Art’: Theoretical Roots of an Idea.” Journal of Archeological Method and Theory, December 2013, Vol. 20, No. 4.
Thurman, Judith. “First Impressions: What does the world’s oldest art say about us?” The New Yorker, June 23, 2008.
Zhuo, Yue. “Alongside the Animals: Bataille’s ‘Lascaux Project.’” Yale French Studies, 2015, No. 127.