| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 339 pages, 8 leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Preface; Introduction: Art, History, and Apartheid; 1. Grey Areas and the Space of Modern Black Art; 2. Becoming Animal: The Tortured Body During Apartheid; 3. Culture and Resistance: Activist Art and the Rhetoric of Commitment; 4. Here Comes Mello-Yello: Image, Violence, and Play after Soweto; 5. Abstraction and Community: Liberating Art during the States of Emergency; 6. These Guys Are Heavy: Alternative Forms of Commitment; 7. Resurfacing: The Art of Durant Sihlali; 8. Censorship and Iconoclasm: Overturning Apartheid's Monuments |
| Summary |
Black South African artists have typically had their work labeled "African art" or "township art," qualifiers that, when contrasted with simply "modernist art," have been used to marginalize their work both in South Africa and internationally. In Art and the End of Apartheid, John Peffer considers in-depth the work of black South African artists in the decades leading up to the end of apartheid in 1994. Peffer examines painting and graphic art, photography, avant-garde and performance art, and popular and protest art through artist collectives, such as the Thupelo Art Project and the Medu Art E |
| Notes |
Expansion and Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001 |
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Portions previously published in various sources |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-324) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Art, South African -- 20th century.
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Art, Black -- South Africa -- 20th century
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Apartheid and art.
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Modernism (Art) -- South Africa
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Art and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
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ART -- African.
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Apartheid and art
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Art and society
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Art, Black
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Art, South African
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Modernism (Art)
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South Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816667925 |
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0816667926 |
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