South Africa : : the art of a Nation

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Call Number: 709.68 Gi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Published to accompany the exhibition "South Africa : the art of a nation", held at the British Museum, 27 October 2016 - 26 February 2017.
Origins and early art -- Sculpture and initiation -- European and Asian arrivals -- Colonial conflicts -- Rural art in the 1800s -- Experiencing and resisting segregation and apartheid -- Transformations.
"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." -- Provided by publisher.

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