Gerard Sekoto is without doubt one of South Africa's major painters
of the twentieth century. Considered increasingly as one of the
earliest South African modernists and social realists, he completed
his most memorable work during the early and middle years of the
1940s, first at Sophiatown (Johannesburg), then in District Six in
Cape Town and later in Eastwood, Pretoria. When he left to go to
Paris in 1947, he was at the height of his creative powers. Yet
during the forty-five years that he spent as an exile in France,
his talent, moral resilience, dedication, belief in the equality of
all people and, most of all, his identity as an African sustained
him during the most difficult times.
Sekoto said of his work, ""All my paintings searched to rediscover
an identity common to all people of different origins, to the quest
for the common relation between beings.""
The story told in this book reveals the extent to which triumphant
moments in the painter's life were, at times, accompanied by
heart-rending adversity. Interesting too is the richness
retrospectively brought to light by the discovery, after Sekoto's
death, of the painter's suitcase of treasures, which contained
previously unknown musical compositions, letters and a large
quantity of notes, writings and private documents.
The biography ends with a statement by Gerard Sekoto on art and
the responsibility of artists, which he presented in Rome in 1959.
Photographs and full color plates of previously unpublished and
significant paintings are included.
Chabani Manganyi, currently a Vice Principal at the University of
Pretoria, is a clinical psychologist, biographer, and non-fiction
writer.
General
| Imprint: |
Witwatersrand University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
South Africa |
| Release date: |
2004 |
| First published: |
August 2004 |
| Authors: |
N. Chabani Manganyi
|
| Dimensions: |
209 x 180 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
244 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-86814-400-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-86814-400-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781868144006 |
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