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Horizons of Babel

其他書名	Keith Dietrich
出版	Designed, printed and published by Keith Dietrich, 2004
ISBN	06203223499780620322348
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GSt5ngEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋“Horizons of Babel is framed against the background of a fascination with the topography of South Africa that dominated the interests of both amateur and professional artists from the colonial period to the present. The site of the project is located on a semicircle between Cape Columbine on the West Coast of the Cape, and Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa. The centre of this semicircle falls on the hill Babelonstoring (Tower of Babel) in the vicinity of Paarl/Franschhoek/Stellenbosch. Seven co-ordinates were identified on this semicircle at 30 degree intervals, and each co-ordinate was systematically documented. The outcome of the project is an artist's book and seven aquarelle panoramas (Cape Columbine, Verlorenvlei, Hottentotsberg, Roosterberg, Anysberg, Napkei and Agulhas) corresponding to the abovementioned co-ordinates. Digital reproductions of the panoramas have been included in a pocket at the back of the book. The pages of the book follow the red semi-circular line from Cape Columbine to Cape Aghulas. The original 1:50,000 maps lying on the semicircle have been retained inside the line, while the areas outside the line have been transformed to grey scale. This outer area, or terra incognita, includes a wide range of images taken from colonial travel accounts (geographical, botanical, zoological and ethnographical illustrations), early nineteenth-century schoolbooks, comics, medieval maps and other sources--Dietrich in online catalogue entry by Joshua Heller Rarebooks, Inc. website, viewed July 15, 2013.