South African Artists at Home

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Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1432305670
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (323 download)

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Book Synopsis South African Artists at Home by : Paul Duncan

Download or read book South African Artists at Home written by Paul Duncan and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist’s canvas reflects the face he chooses to show to the world, but the place in which that art is made is seldom revealed. Paul Duncan was given unparalleled access into the homes and lives of fourteen of South Africa’s most revered artists. Over countless mugs of coffee or glasses of wine, he listened and observed as they spoke about their lives, loves and the way they make their art. South African Artists at Home takes the reader into some very private spaces, affording us a glimpse of what the artist goes home to at the end of the day. For some, the work space and home space are irrevocably intertwined. For others, home is a sanctuary. Or perhaps it is the studio that is the sanctuary and home is where ‘real life’ happens. Either way, if you have an interest in art, artists, and the often bizarre way that making art intersects with living life, you’ll find this book intriguing.

South African Art Now

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062043471
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis South African Art Now by : Sue Williamson

Download or read book South African Art Now written by Sue Williamson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by international curator Okwui Enwezor as "one of the most dynamic and vigorous spaces of artistic practice," contemporary South African art is an exciting, emerging scene that is attracting the attention of international museums, curators, and collectors today. 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 art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success. This book covers forty years of art history, from the dark years of apartheid, which saw the rise of resistance art, to the long-awaited achievement of freedom in 1994, to the present-day struggles for reconciliation and transformation. Through it all, the engaged, powerful work of these artists provided a mirror for society. Including a compelling foreword by Nobel Prize-winning writer Nadine Gordimer, South African Art Now is a must-have resource for collectors, curators, and anyone interested in the pulse of international contemporary art.

African Salad

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Publisher : Day One Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0620354518
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis African Salad by : Stan Engelbrecht

Download or read book African Salad written by Stan Engelbrecht and published by Day One Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Artists

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Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781838662431
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Book Synopsis African Artists by : Joseph L. Underwood

Download or read book African Artists written by Joseph L. Underwood and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years Africa's booming art scene has gained substantial global attention, with a growing number of international exhibitions and a stronger-than-ever presence on the art market worldwide. Here, for the first time, is the most substantial survey to date of modern and contemporary African-born or Africa-based artists. Working with a panel of experts, this volume builds on the success of Phaidon's bestselling Great Women Artists in re-writing a more inclusive and diverse version of art history.

In the World

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Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 9788857235639
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis In the World by : Ashraf Jamal

Download or read book In the World written by Ashraf Jamal and published by Skira. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inclusive exercise in cultural analysis, this book deals with the gravitas and folly of identity politics, the boom of so-called African art, and the fetish and fascination with a global Esperanto. Designed to provoke thought and feeling, it is hoped that this collection of essays on South African art will reach a wide audience. The book's strength lies in its diversity of focus and cultural frameworks. It offers no defining system or divining rod. Rather, it is hoped that this book will provide a healthy contribution to an already thriving debate regarding the value and purpose of contemporary art, the on-going significance of the decolonising project, and the importance of art from Africa in the global pantheon.

Going Back Home

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Publisher : Children's Book Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892391974
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Going Back Home written by and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative text describes the artist's paintings and their portrayal of the lives of her African American relatives in the rural American South.

Home Spaces, Street Styles

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Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745323275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Home Spaces, Street Styles by : Leslie J. Bank

Download or read book Home Spaces, Street Styles written by Leslie J. Bank and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology -- the Xhosa in Town series -- based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s. The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanization in East London’s African locations, one embracing Westernization, European values and Christianity and another opposed to it. The studies have been the subject of intense anthropological debate. Leslie Bank returned to the areas of East London studied in the 1950s to assess how social and political changes have transformed these areas, in particular the apartheid reconstruction of the 1960s and 1970s and the struggle for liberation followed by the post-Apartheid period in the 1980s and 1990s. Bank has added important theoretical insights to this rich ethnography, and forged strong links with issues that transcend the particularities of his urban study.

Shack Chic

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Publisher : Quivertree Publications
ISBN 13 : 0620288035
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Shack Chic written by and published by Quivertree Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triumph of artistic tenacity over adversity is brought to life in Craig Frasers Vibrant Images, which capture the style and innovation of South Africas Shack Dwellers.

This Place I Call Home

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1920397027
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis This Place I Call Home by : Meg Vandermerwe

Download or read book This Place I Call Home written by Meg Vandermerwe and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by South Africa-based Meg Vandermerwe, up and coming young writer, academic, teacher of creative writing.

Cathedral of the Wild

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1400069858
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Cathedral of the Wild by : Boyd Varty

Download or read book Cathedral of the Wild written by Boyd Varty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a gorgeous, lyrical, hilarious, important book. . . . Read this and you may find yourself instinctively beginning to heal old wounds: in yourself, in others, and just maybe in the cathedral of the wild that is our true home.”—Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders. Founded more than eighty years ago as a hunting ground, Londolozi was transformed into a nature reserve beginning in 1973 by Varty’s father and uncle, visionaries of the restoration movement. But it wasn’t just a sanctuary for the animals; it was also a place for ravaged land to flourish again and for the human spirit to be restored. When Nelson Mandela was released after twenty-seven years of imprisonment, he came to the reserve to recover. Cathedral of the Wild is Varty’s memoir of his life in this exquisite and vast refuge. At Londolozi, Varty gained the confidence that emerges from living in Africa. “We came out strong and largely unafraid of life,” he writes, “with the full knowledge of its dangers.” It was there that young Boyd and his equally adventurous sister learned to track animals, raised leopard and lion cubs, followed their larger-than-life uncle on his many adventures filming wildlife, and became one with the land. Varty survived a harrowing black mamba encounter, a debilitating bout with malaria, even a vicious crocodile attack, but his biggest challenge was a personal crisis of purpose. An intense spiritual quest takes him across the globe and back again—to reconnect with nature and “rediscover the track.” Cathedral of the Wild is a story of transformation that inspires a great appreciation for the beauty and order of the natural world. With conviction, hope, and humor, Varty makes a passionate claim for the power of the wild to restore the human spirit. Praise for Cathedral of the Wild “Extremely touching . . . a book about growth and hope.”—The New York Times “It made me cry with its hard-won truths about human and animal nature. . . . Both funny and deeply moving, this book belongs on the shelf of everyone who seeks healing in wilderness.”—BookPage

Bringing the Empire Home

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226501779
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis Bringing the Empire Home by : Zine Magubane

Download or read book Bringing the Empire Home written by Zine Magubane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did South Africans become black? How did the idea of blackness influence conceptions of disadvantaged groups in England such as women and the poor, and vice versa? Bringing the Empire Home tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England and back again to answer questions such as these. Before the mid-1800s, black Africans were considered savage to the extent that their plight mirrored England's internal Others—women, the poor, and the Irish. By the 1900s, England's minority groups were being defined in relation to stereotypes of black South Africans. These stereotypes, in turn, were used to justify both new capitalist class and gender hierarchies in England and the subhuman treatment of blacks in South Africa. Bearing this in mind, Zine Magubane considers how marginalized groups in both countries responded to these racialized representations. Revealing the often overlooked links among ideologies of race, class, and gender, Bringing the Empire Home demonstrates how much black Africans taught the English about what it meant to be white, poor, or female.

Home Lands

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ISBN 13 : 9781905620258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Home Lands by : Tamar Garb

Download or read book Home Lands written by Tamar Garb and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home Lands - Land Marks is an exhibition of new and recent work from seven leading South African artists at Haunch of Venison, London, and the first in London to focus on contemporary South African art since 1995. The publication focuses on images and invocations of landscape which explore contemporary South Africa. Differing from the usual approach to post-apartheid South Africa, the exhibition addresses the complexity of the South African landscape, reflecting upon notions of memory, place and identity, referring to the political context and historical background of South Africa only through the imprint and trace of human experience on the physical landscape. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Home Lands - Land Marks: Contemporary Art from South Africa at Haunch of Venison, London, May - July 2008.

African Painted Houses

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis African Painted Houses by : Gary Van Wyk

Download or read book African Painted Houses written by Gary Van Wyk and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1998-03-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the early history of the Basotho people of Lesotho in the high veldt of southern Africa and describes their ceremonies that persist in the modern world. Focuses on male and female initiation rituals, the practices of female diviners and healers, and the sacred landscape that the people revere, as well as their colorful painted houses, which are a form of prayer. Includes many color photos. Oversize: 9x10.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Traditional South African Cooking

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Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 143230433X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (323 download)

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Book Synopsis Traditional South African Cooking by : Magdaleen van Wyk

Download or read book Traditional South African Cooking written by Magdaleen van Wyk and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who longs for a beloved grandmother’s famous milk tart or melkkos, or a great aunt’s delicious bobotie or vetkoek, should have this book in his or her kitchen! Traditional South African Cooking is a collection of well-known South African recipes that will enable the modern cook to continue the tradition and produce the same delicious meals that our ancestors used to enjoy. South African cuisine is a unique blend of the culinary art of many different cultures. Dutch, French, German and British settlers, as well as the Malays who came from the East, all brought their own recipes to this country. The subtle adaptation of these ‘imported’ recipes by the addition of local ingredients and the introduction of innovative (at the time) cooking methods resulted in an original and much-loved cuisine. This book also features interesting snippets about our forebears’ way of life.

Street Art Africa

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ISBN 13 : 9780500022825
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (228 download)

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Book Synopsis Street Art Africa by : Cale Waddacor

Download or read book Street Art Africa written by Cale Waddacor and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to the visually dazzling world of African street art, this volume surveys the work of dozens of artists from across the continent.

Perfect Hideaways in South Africa

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Publisher : Africa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780620667081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Perfect Hideaways in South Africa by : Paul Duncan

Download or read book Perfect Hideaways in South Africa written by Paul Duncan and published by Africa Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features 30 different styles of holiday house where all kinds of experiences are possible away from life in the city. They're found on remote escarpments of the South African hinterland, in the vineyard-filled valleys and among the mountains of the Overberg and the Boland, in barren Karoo veld, by the sea on the Garden Route, the West Coast and the Cape Peninsula, overlooking the lagoon at Churchhaven and on the edges of small country towns in the Sandveld and Swartland. Some are there because there's great fishing nearby or the beaches are safe for swimming. Some are in landscapes of cultural significance while others are in locations where natural wonders are endemic. Some have ostriches for neighbours. Others have African penguins or herds of Nguni cattle. All have something in common however; in spite of their physical differences, no matter their age or style or who they belong to, the idea of going to and occupying a house - your own or somebody else's - for a sojourn away from home, flirts with an atavistic desire to make a home, to settle, whatever the context.

Acts of Transgression

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Publisher : Wits University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776142799
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Book Synopsis Acts of Transgression by : Jay Pather

Download or read book Acts of Transgression written by Jay Pather and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range of perspectives, personalities and theoretical concerns. Contemporary South African society is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but it continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism. Acts of Transgression represents the complexity of this moment in the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The contributors, who are all significantly involved in the discipline of performance art, probe its intersection with crisis and socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and belonging, embodied trauma and loss. Narratives of the past and visions for the future are interrogated through memory and the archive, thus destabilising entrenched colonial systems. Collectively analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South African artists, including Athi-Patra Ruga, Mohau Modisakeng, Steven Cohen, Dean Hutton, Mikhael Subotzsky, Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama, among others, the analysis is accompanied by a visual record of more than 50 photographs. For those working in the fields of theatre, performance studies and art, this is a must-have collection of critical essays on a burgeoning and exciting field of contemporary South African research.