Listening to Distant Thunder - The Art of Peter Clarke by Phillippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin

Listening to Distant Thunder - The Art of Peter Clarke by Phillippa Hobbs & Elizabeth Rankin.

Hardcover in excellent. condition, first edition. 

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 communitys 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.