The South African National Gallery recently underwent a voluntary exposure in the spirit of
national reconciliation. In a retrospective, spanning the decade from 1985 to 1995, the …

Although some South African artists were represented in the collection soon after the
museum's inception, it was only in the 1950s that serious attention turned to strengthening …

This is a record of the hopes and aspirations, fears and concerns, of South Africans through
the eyes of the country's artists. The book consists of eleven essays by distinguished …

Internationally curated exhibitions about South Africa have, thus far in my experience, been
actualized as conservative survey shows attempting to represent a broad spectrum of artistic …

Over the past few years, South African contemporary art has appeared as the most
fascinating and stimulating artistic production of the continent. Since the ground-breaking …

Rather than view these multiple modes of artistic production as obstacles to a coherent
identity or as conflicting forms of expression, the editors of African Arts view them as part of …

This book is a record of the renaissance of black South African art and an introduction to an
innovative and complex body of work. It focuses on the flowering of township art in the …