Descript |
xxii, 339 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
Note |
Expansion and revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001. |
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Portions previously published in various sources. |
Contents |
Grey areas and the space of modern black art -- Becoming animal: the tortured body during Apartheid -- Culture and resistance: activist art and the rhetoric of commitment -- Here comes mello-yello: image, violence, and play after Soweto -- Abstraction and community: liberating art during the states of emergency -- These guys are heavy: alternative forms of commitment -- Resurfacing: the art of Durant Sihlali -- Censorship and iconoclasm: overturning Apartheid's monuments -- Shadows: a short history of photography in South Africa. |
ISBN |
9780816650026 (pb : alk. paper) |
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9780816650019 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0816650012 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0816650020 (pb : alk. paper) |
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