Qauqaua
A San folk story from Botswana
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Johannesburg
Illustrations and maps
color illustrations
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Qauqaua is a unique book, published by The Artists' Press and The Kuru Art Project. Lying on a pan of fragmented rock, close to the Botswana border in Namibia, is a small boulder, which looks so different from the surrounding jagged landscape that it appears as if it must have somehow been placed there. The Bushmen or San living in the nearby village of D'kar talk of this rock as being the body of Qauqaua, a folk heroine.
The artists of the Kuru Art Project have grown up with the Qauqaua folktale, which has been told by parents and grandparents. With their traditional way of life changing so rapidly around them, they have decided to preserve this story in book form. THE ARTISTS: Thamae Setshogo, Coex'ae Qgam, Qwaa Mangana, Cgose Ncoxo, Sobe Sobe, Nxabe Eland, Coex'ae Bob, Qhaeqhao Moses and Thamae Kaashe work primarily with oil on canvas but have also worked with various printing techniques. They have held many successful exhibitions around the world and their work can be found in numerous private and public collections. Each original print in the book is signed by the artist.
LANGUAGES: The book is printed in English and in Naro, the predominant San language of the Ghanzi district. PRINTING: The images were drawn directly onto the lithographic printing plates by the artists during a collaborative workshop in 1994.
