`LISTENING TO DISTANT THUNDER - THE ART OF PETER CLARKE` PHILLIPPA HOBBS & ELIZABETH RANKIN

"LISTENING TO DISTANT THUNDER - THE ART OF PETER CLARKE" PHILLIPPA HOBBS & ELIZABETH RANKIN, FIRST EDITION, HARDCOVER, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

Clarke left his job as a dockworker in Simons Town to devote himself to art. The wisdom of this decision is reflected in a remarkable career, which extended over some six decades and was acknowledged in the awards of the Order of Ikhamanga (silver) in 2005 and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.

This book recounts the artists life in the context of the social history of South Africa from the 1940s onwards. His images reflect the social disruption of the Cape Flats, and the trauma of his community's forced removal from Simons Town to the bleak apartheid township of Ocean View. Yet Clarkes images have avoided bitterness, and his work is a perceptive scrutiny and celebration of life in all its aspects. Illustrated with over 200 reproductions and photographs, this book was researched and written by well-known South African art historians Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin, in close collaboration with the artist over almost seven years.