Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… Martin's extremely large, shaped and standing hard-edge abstract immediately calls to mind Frank Stella's work; and … controlled dribbles and thick sweeps of paint on the abstract wall that forms a backÂdrop to the "drama", all … when the mythic, the emblemÂatic, the symbolic and the abstract replace references to the historically particular, …