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South Africa has an established and highly politicized contemporary art scene that is often in dialogue with the deep and recent past. This book explores this relationship, showing contemporary and historic art objects from the earliest human artistic tendencies to 20th-century apartheid Resistance Art and the art of post-apartheid transformation.

Table of Contents
• Director’s foreword • Introduction: South African art • Chapter 1: Origins and early art • Chapter 2: Sculpture and initiation • Chapter 3: European and Asian arrivals • Chapter 4: Colonial conflicts • Chapter 5: Rural art in the 1800s • Chapter 6: Experiencing and resisting segregation and apartheid • Chapter 7: Transformations • Notes • Further reading • List of lenders • List of exhibits • Acknowledgments • Illustration credits • Index

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      Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/10/2016
      ISBN13: 9780500519066, 978-0500519066
      ISBN10: 0500519064

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      South Africa has an established and highly politicized contemporary art scene that is often in dialogue with the deep and recent past. This book explores this relationship, showing contemporary and historic art objects from the earliest human artistic tendencies to 20th-century apartheid Resistance Art and the art of post-apartheid transformation.

      Table of Contents
      • Director’s foreword • Introduction: South African art • Chapter 1: Origins and early art • Chapter 2: Sculpture and initiation • Chapter 3: European and Asian arrivals • Chapter 4: Colonial conflicts • Chapter 5: Rural art in the 1800s • Chapter 6: Experiencing and resisting segregation and apartheid • Chapter 7: Transformations • Notes • Further reading • List of lenders • List of exhibits • Acknowledgments • Illustration credits • Index

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