Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa |
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Editor:
| Hertz, Betti-Sue Smigiel, Frank Willsdon, Dominic |
Text by:
| Kurgan, Terry Malatjie, Portia |
ISBN: | 978-0-9826789-7-8 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2016 |
Publisher: | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Public Intimacy brings together 25 artists and collectives who disrupt expected images of a country known largely through its apartheid history. The book presents a critical sensibility that existed but was mostly overlooked during apartheid, and which is now shared by many artists and writers of a new generation--the expression of the poetics and politics of the "ordinary act."
Public Intimacyincludes works by Ian Berry, Chimurenga, Ernest Cole, DavidGoldblatt,...
More Description Public Intimacy brings together 25 artists and collectives who disrupt expected images of a country known largely through its apartheid history. The book presents a critical sensibility that existed but was mostly overlooked during apartheid, and which is now shared by many artists and writers of a new generation--the expression of the poetics and politics of the "ordinary act." Public Intimacyincludes works by Ian Berry, Chimurenga, Ernest Cole, DavidGoldblatt, Handspring Puppet Company, Nicholas Hlobo, ijusi (Garth Walker), Anton Kannemeyer, William Kentridge, Donna Kukama, Terry Kurgan, Sabelo Mlangeni, Santu Mofokeng, Billy Monk, Anthea Moys, Zanele Muholi, Sello Pesa and Vaughn Sadie, Cameron Platter, Lindeka Qampi, Jo Ractliffe, Athi-Patra Ruga, Berni Searle, Penny Siopis, Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse and Kemang Wa Lehulere.