John Peffer
Art and the End of Apartheid.
University of Minnesota Press, 2009. First printing. 9780816650026 xxii/339 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 7" x 10", is new.
"Black South African artists have typically had their work labeled "African art" or "township art," qualifiers that, when contrasted with simply "modernist art," have been used to marginalize their work both in South Africa and internationally. In "Art and the End of Apartheid," John Peffer considers in-depth the work of black South African artists in the decades leading up to the end of apartheid in 1994. Peffer examines painting and graphic art, photography, avant-garde and performance art, and popular and protest art through artist collectives, such as the Thupelo Art Project and the Medu Art E."