South African art in context 1990 - 2007 M Pissarra, T Goniwe, M Majavu (OUT OF PRINT NEW)

Visual Century: 1990 - 2007: Vol 4 - South African art incontext (Paperback)M Pissarra, T Goniwe, M Majavu(OUT OF PRINT NEW)

Volume 4 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. The years1990 to 2007 are covered in Volume 4, edited by Thembinkosi Goniwe, MarioPissarra and Mandisi Majavu. The end of the Cold War and subsequent emergenceof globalisation, along with the advent of democracy in South Africa introducednew social and political orders, with profound implications for South Africanartists. Concurrently, the persistence of economic inequalities and conflictswithin and beyond national borders constantly mitigated against an unbridledcelebration of `freedom'. The essays in this volume critically address some ofthe most notable developments and visible trends in postapartheid South Africanart. These include South Africa's entry into the international art community,its struggle to address its past, and artists' persistent and often provocativepreoccupations with individual and collective identity. The widespread andoften unsettling representation of human bodies, as well as animal forms, alongwith the steady increase in use of new technologies and the development of newforms of public art are also discussed. While much of the art of the period isopen-ended and non-didactic, the persistence of engagement with sociallyresponsive themes calls into question the reductive binary between `resistance'and post-apartheid art that has come to dominate accounts of `before' and`after'.