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South African Art Now

By (author) Sue Williamson






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Written by Sue Williamson, one of South Africa's most influential art critics and editors and herself a leading international artist, South African Art Now offers historical context and in-depth analysis of a wide variety of South African art genres and mediums, from painting and sculpture to photography, from performance and traditional craft-making to video. The book spans four decades, from early political art in the 1960s (during the Apartheid years) to the thought-provoking works with universal themes that grabbed the international art market's interest a generation later. Major South African artists include some of the world's most well-known names, from Marlene Dumas, William Kentridge, and Gerard Sekoto, to up-and-coming art stars such as Robin Rhode, Nicholas Hlobo, and Mustafa Maluka. Nobel laureate and South Africa-based novelist Nadine Gordimer contributes a moving foreword, and some of the world's leading art critics, including Okwui Enwezor and RoseLee Goldberg, offer insightful essays that place the works included into a truly international context. With South African art quickly becoming an area that is receiving much attention at auctions and art fairs around the globe, South African Art Now is a rare combination of an art-historical must-read and a sumptuous contemporary design book.

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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Published date | 5 May 2009
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 304
Dimensions | 279 x 235 x 28mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 1706g
ISBN | 978-0-0613-4351-3
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BISAC | art / african


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