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South Africa: the art of a nation
John Giblin
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Description for South Africa: the art of a nation
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 259 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1366.
South Africa has an established, vibrant and highly politicized contemporary art scene that is often in dialogue with the deep and recent past. South African Art explores this relationship between past and present, showing contemporary and historic art objects from the earliest human artistic tendencies three million years ago to 20th-century apartheid Resistance Art and the art of post-apartheid transformation. South African Art begins with the first artistic stirrings of our earliest ancestors and the first African kingdoms through to the creation of 3D figurative art and specialised artisans. It then considers the influence of Dutch, British, Malay, Chinese and Indian settlers from the 16th century onwards and the ensuing conflicts, followed by a focus on the British colonial period and the European obsession with the exotic and the objectification of African bodies. A chapter on segregation after the Union of South Africa in 1910 and Resistance Art during the apartheid era of c.1970 to 1989 is followed by a final section looking at South Africa's transformation from an apartheid state to the `Rainbow Nation', and the country's current artistic optimism.
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1365g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500519066
SKU
V9780500519066
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About John Giblin
John Giblin is Head of the African collection at the British Museum. Chris Spring is curator of the contemporary African art and the eastern and southern African collection at the British Museum.
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