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This is a fascinating insight into the living history of Africa.
African textiles are patterned with stories that range far beyond
the time of the creation or the lifetime of their creator. In
Africa, cloth is used to commemorate important events, people or
political struggles that in other parts of the world might be
recorded in writing, or marked by a plaque or monument. This
beautifully illustrated book deciphers these hidden stories, whilst
also revealing the relevance of African textiles today, exploring
how the dynamic traditions in African cloth-making have provided
inspiration for the continent's foremost contemporary artists and
photographers. Africa's long engagement with the peoples of the
Mediterranean and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
provides a story of change and continuity, showing how ideas,
techniques, materials and markets have adapted and flourished.
Accompanied by 200 stunning illustrations revealing the rich
variety of textile traditions throughout Africa, this new work
showcases some of the world's finest examples of textile arts.
South Africa has an established, vibrant and highly politicized
contemporary art scene that is often in dialogue with the deep and
recent past. South African Art explores this relationship between
past and present, showing contemporary and historic art objects
from the earliest human artistic tendencies three million years ago
to 20th-century apartheid Resistance Art and the art of
post-apartheid transformation. South African Art begins with the
first artistic stirrings of our earliest ancestors and the first
African kingdoms through to the creation of 3D figurative art and
specialised artisans. It then considers the influence of Dutch,
British, Malay, Chinese and Indian settlers from the 16th century
onwards and the ensuing conflicts, followed by a focus on the
British colonial period and the European obsession with the exotic
and the objectification of African bodies. A chapter on segregation
after the Union of South Africa in 1910 and Resistance Art during
the apartheid era of c.1970 to 1989 is followed by a final section
looking at South Africa's transformation from an apartheid state to
the `Rainbow Nation', and the country's current artistic optimism.
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