South African art in context 1973 - 1992 (Paperback) Mario Pissarra (OUT OF PRINT NEW)

Visual Century: 1973 - 1992: Vol 3 - South African art incontext (Paperback)

Mario Pissarra(OUT OF PRINT NEW)

Volume 3 of Visual Century: South African Art in Context1907-1948 is part of a four-volume publication that reappraises South Africanvisual art of the twentieth century from a postapartheid perspective. Edited byMario Pissarra, the volume looks at the years 1973 to 1992. The forw0rd byRashied Araeen titled `Art and Human Struggle', sets the theme for this period.Bracketed by porous transitional moments in the early 1970s and 1990s, thisvolume covers a period characterised by a deepening of the struggle fordemocracy, a time when historical preoccupations with race were increasinglycomplemented with growing discourses on class and gender. It was a time whenunprecedented internal and external pressure resulted in heightenedintrospection and action in and through the visual arts. The essays address amultiplicity of ways in which artists responded directly and indirectly to thechallenges of this period, mostly as individuals but also throughorganisations. Resistance and complicity, and the spaces between, foundexpression in the use of everyday themes, biblical sources, ethnically derivedthemes, subtle and extreme forms of humour, as well as through representationsof conflict. This is a period when challenging art was produced in communityarts centres, universities and in public places, a time when the culturalboycott simultaneously united and polarised artists, and exiles mediated theambivalences of `home'.