South African art now / Sue Williamson.
South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Nadine Gordimer
- Appreciation / Elton John
- "Better lives", marginal selves : framing the current reception of contemporary South African art / Okwui Enwezor
- Art and life in South Africa 1968 to 2008 / Sue Williamson
- The stifling years : a time of exile
- Culture turns activist : the spread of a new resistance
- Between country and city : rural artists enter the art world
- Freedom at last : euphoria, doubt, and reflection
- Live from South Africa / Roselee Goldberg
- Searching for identity : imaging the new society
- Love and gender in a time of AIDS
- Old influences, new work : fresh interpretations of cultural traditions
- Punchline : a grim humor holds up a mirror to society
- The materiality of sculpture
- The poetics of paint
- Acting out : the installation and performance artists
- Through the lens : new interpretations of the photographic
- Biographies
- Chronology.