Author: John PefferPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Struggle for Art at the End of Apartheid
Author: John PefferArt and the End of Apartheid
Author: John PefferPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816650012
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
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. This is the The first book to fully explore cosmopolitan modern art by black South Africans under apartheid.
Art and Revolution
Author: Diana WyliePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813927640
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Diana Wylie is Professor of History at Boston University. She is the author of A Little God: The Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Chiefdom and Starving on a Full Stomach: The Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (Virginia), which won the Melville J. Herskovits Award.
Resistance Art in South Africa
Author: Sue WilliamsonPublisher: Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN: 9781919930695
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Resistance Art" was Sue Williamson s classic account of the visual art against apartheid. First published in 1989, it soon became a bestseller. Editions were sold in the United States and the UK, and the South African edition sold out within a few years. Because of continuing demand, this landmark work has now been reprinted with a new preface, so as to make the art of the 1980s and 1990's available to a new generation of readers and art lovers.
The End of Apartheid
Author: Robin RenwickPublisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 184954865X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
In 2 February 1990, FW de Klerk made a speech that changed the history of South Africa. Nine days later, the world watched as Nelson Mandela walked free from the Viktor Verster prison. In the midst of these events was Lord Renwick, Margaret Thatcher's envoy to South Africa, who became a personal friend of Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, acting as a trusted intermediary between them. He warned PW Botha against military attacks on neighbouring countries, in meetings he likens to 'calling on the führer in his bunker'. He invited Mandela to his first meal in a restaurant for twenty-seven years, rehearsing him for his meeting with Margaret Thatcher - and told Thatcher that she must not interrupt him. Their discussion went on so long that the British press in Downing Street started chanting 'Free Nelson Mandela'.In this extraordinary insider's account, Renwick draws on his diaries of the time, as well as previously unpublished material from the Foreign Office and Downing Street files. He paints a vivid, affectionate, real-life portrait of Mandela as a wily and resourceful political leader bent on out-manoeuvring both adversaries and some of his own colleagues in pursuit of a peaceful outcome.
Art Against Apartheid
Author: Frankie Nicole WeaverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
During the second half of the twentieth century, various artists and activists sought to educate and influence the American public about the institutionalized oppressive system of segregationist policies and white supremacy that was practiced in South Africa. "Art against Apartheid" explores ways that artist-activists and their artworks contributed to anti-apartheid solidarity networks and activism in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. Special attention is paid to the ways that art, both its production and the artwork itself, fostered solidarity between transnational activist communities. Connections between Americans and South Africans, together struggling for liberation movements in South Africa, are traced and analyzed. Activist and artist memoirs, organizational documents, print media, popular culture materials, and various artworks reveal how anti-apartheid art contributed to alternative ideologies about Africa and black Africans; provided new cultural and political spaces for activists; helped to foster activist networks in an international arena; and inspired artists and activists to sustain activist efforts. The dissertation is based on the premise that scholars should study cultural production while examining the international struggle against apartheid because artists and activists deploying art helped to forge the necessary foundations and solidarity networks that made it possible for events in South Africa to resonate in the United States. The study argues that art proved a fruitful avenue for activists in at least two ways. First, art helped to make transformations possible by providing alternative images and narratives. Art, in other words, functioned as a tool for creating knowledge and public persuasion. Second, art helped build a movement, created solidarity networks, and sustained a movement culture. It also helped to create a supportive base and to foster solidarity in a transnational arena. Following the introductory chapter, this dissertation is divided into five chapters and a conclusion. The chapters are organized chronologically to illustrate the transformation of a movement within the United States which grew from a handful of concerned individuals to an outpouring of support. The first two chapters provide a foundation for the dissertation by focusing on discussion related to political and cultural context and the emergence of international anti-apartheid activism, including that which developed in the United States. The third, fourth, and fifth chapters examine the work of specific artist-activists and activists deploying art against apartheid during the late 1940s and into the 1960s. For instance, "Chapter Three" illustrates how Alan Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), acted as a precursor for the growth of anti-apartheid support and provided alternative ideologies about black South Africans. Furthermore, "Chapter Four" investigates the work of George Houser, Mary-Louise Hooper, and Lionel Rogosin, who went to South Africa during the era of the Treason Trial and returned to the U.S. with anti-apartheid messages. In chapter five, the work of exiled South Africans, including Miriam Makeba and Dennis Brutus, and their collaboration with American activists like Harry Belafonte and organizations such as the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and the United Nations (UN) is examined. The conclusion discusses how early anti-apartheid artist-activists and activists inspired and connected by art built foundations making it possible for anti-apartheid activism in the United States to gain popular support.
Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art
Author: LaNitra M. BergerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135018750X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
South African artist Irma Stern (1894–1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than fifty years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.
The People Shall Govern!
Author: Antawan I. ByrdPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300254342
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
A revelatory and informative presentation of the anti-apartheid posters created by Medu Art Ensemble Formed in the late 1970s, Medu Art Ensemble forcefully articulated a call to end the apartheid system’s racial segregation and violent injustice through posters that combined revolutionary imagery with bold slogans. Advocating for decolonization and majority (nonwhite) rule in South Africa and neighboring countries, Medu members were persecuted by the South African Defense Force and operated in exile across the border in Botswana. The People Shall Govern! features nearly all the surviving posters that Medu created between 1979 and 1985. These objects are exceedingly rare, as they were originally smuggled into South Africa and mounted in public places, where they were regularly confiscated or torn down on sight. Offering new insight into the conceptual framework of Medu’s working practice and featuring a beautiful silkscreened cover, this volume examines the continuing relevance and impact of its poster production.
Portraiture and Photography in Africa
Author: John PefferPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253008727
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers' studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of photography, the social and political implications of changing technologies for portraiture, and the lasting effects of culture on the idea of the person depicted in the photographic image.
Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Author: Okwui EnwezorPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 3791352806
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring some of the most iconic images of our time, this unique combination of photojournalism and commentary offers a probing and comprehensive exploration of the birth, evolution, and demise of apartheid in South Africa. Photographers played an important role in the documentation of apartheid, capturing the system's penetration of even the most mundane aspects of life in South Africa. Included in this vivid and compelling volume are works by photographers such as Eli Weinberg, Alf Khumalo, David Goldblatt, Peter Magubane, Ian Berry, and many others. Organized chronologically, it interweaves images and essays exploring the institutionalization of apartheid through the country's legal apparatus; the growing resistance in the 1950s; and the radicalization of the anti-apartheid movement within South Africa and, later, throughout the world. Finally, the book investigates the fall of apartheid, including Mandela's return from exile. Far-reaching and exhaustively researched, this important book features more than 60 years of powerful photographic material that forms part of the historical record of South Africa.