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Jan 16, 2012

The New Generation

A significant challenge to state policy as regards the visual arts was undertaken at The State of Art in South Africa Co...

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Jan 16, 2012

The Pioneers

The artworks presented in this section of the exhibition had their historical beginnings in the decades of the 1920s and...

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Jan 16, 2012

Conclusion

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Jan 16, 2012

The Neglected Tradition

In 1987 when I was first approached by Christopher Till of the Johannesburg Art Gallery to curate an exhibition of art b...

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Jan 16, 2012

Introduction

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Jan 16, 2012

Biographical Introduction

The fact that the artists in this exhibition represent a largely 'neglected tradition' was nowhere more clearly demonstr...

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Jan 16, 2012

New Generation Sculpture

During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the northern part of the country, Gazankulu and Venda, cam...

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Jan 16, 2012

Foreword

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Jan 16, 2012

The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre

As the Polly Street Art Center drew to a close so Rorke's Drift was established. Polly Street was urban, Rorke's...

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Jan 16, 2012

Exhibition

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Jan 16, 2012

Profiles of Artists

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Jan 16, 2012

Acknowledgements

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Jan 16, 2012

The Polly Street Era

It is evident, through the examples of the art of John Koenakeefe Mohl, Ernest Mancoba and Gerard Sekoto, that the found...

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Jan 16, 2012

1. The Way to Fox Street

Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in 1899 in Witzieshoek (now known as Qwa Qwa), a tiny African reserve squeezed into a ...

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Jan 16, 2012

The Making of an African Communist

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