The Baby and the Bathwater, Motif, Medium and Meaning in the Work of Penny Siopis, colour illustration, 21 cms x 29 cms , condition: very good 16 PAGE BOOKLET ON THE GRAHAMSTOWN FESTIVAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Penny Siopis, The Baby and the Bathwater : motif, medium and meaning in the work of Penelope Siopis by Elizabeth Deane Rankin, published in 1992 in English. Penny Siopis is foremost a painter, although she frequently works with video and installations. Siopis work is marked by three interests, the physicality of paint, the accumulation of found objects (including video footage), material memory, and the politics of the body. She has also continually engaged with the shifting social and political situations in South Africa. A work by Siopis sold for R 1 136 800 on 12 Oct 2015. Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Anne Rankin was appointed to the new Chair of the History of Art at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1982. She became increasingly involved in the development of her discipline in South Africa, shifting her research interests to cross-cultural developments and the retrieval of neglected histories in South African art, not only in publications but also in the curating of exhibitions. She was elected to the Chair of the newly established South African Association of Art Historians in 1985.

Edition:

1st

Published:

1992

Overall Condition:

very good

Size:

21 cms x 29 cms