Art and the end of apartheid / John Peffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peffer, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apartheid and art.

Art and society--South Africa--History--20th century.

Art and society.

Art, Black--South Africa--20th century.

Art, Black.

Art, South African--20th century.

Art, South African.

Modernism (Art)--South Africa.

Modernism (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

9. Shadows: A Short History of Photography in South AfricaNotes; Index

Notes:

Expansion and revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-324) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6792-6

OCLC:

320842091