Cover
Title Page
Foreword
Appreciation
“Better Lives,” Marginal Selves: Framing the Current Reception of Contemporary South African Art
Art and Life in South Africa 1968 to 2008
THE LAST CENTURY
Chapter 01 - The Stifling Years: A Time of Exile
ERNEST COLE
GERARD SEKOTO
AZARIA MBATHA
JOHN MUAFENGEJO
GAVIN JANTJES
DUMILE FENI
Chapter 02 - Culture Turns Activist: The Spread of a New Resistance
JANE ALEXANDER
PAUL STOPFORTH
VUYILE VOYIYA
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
NORMAN CATHERINE
GAVIN YOUNGE
CECIL SKOTNES
MMAKGOBA MAPULA HELEN SEBIDI
KEVIN BRAND
SFISO KA-MKAME
MARLENE DUMAS
PENNY SIOPIS
SAM NHLENGETHWA
Chapter 03 - Between Country and City: Rural Artists Enter the Art World
JOHANNES MASWANGANYI
JOHANNES SEGOGELA
JACKSON HLUNGWANI
TITO ZUNGU
NELSON MUKHUBA
Chapter 04 - Freedom at Last: Euphoria, Doubt, and Reflection
LISA BRICE
BRIDGET BAKER
KENDELL GEERS
BRETT MURRAY
MINNETTE VÁRI
SANTU MOFOKENG
WILLIE BESTER
THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Live from South Africa
Chapter 05 - Searching for Identity: Imaging the New Society
BERNI SEARLE
DOREEN SOUTHWOOD
THEMBINKOSI GONIWE
SENZENI MARASELA
ZWELETHU MTHETHWA
THANDO MAMA
Chapter 06 - Love and Gender in a Time of AIDS
CHURCHILL MADIKIDA
JANE SOLOMON and the BAMBANANI WOMEN’S GROUP
CLIVE VAN DEN BERG
ZANELE MUHOLI
NICHOLAS HLOBO
STEVEN COHEN
HENTIE VAN DER MERWE
MLU ZONDI
DAVID GOLDBLATT
Chapter 07 - Old Influences, New Work: Fresh Interpretations of Cultural Traditions
JEREMY WAFER
ESTHER MAHLANGU
SAMSON MUDZUNGA
WALTER OLTMANN
CLAUDETTE SCHREUDERS
DAN HALTER
MICHAEL MacGARRY
FRANCES GOODMAN
JOACHIM SCHÖNFELDT
Chapter 08 - Punchline: A Grim Humor Holds Up a Mirror to Society
CONRAD BOTES
ANTON KANNEMEYER
ROBIN RHODE
ROBERT HODGINS
Chapter 09 - The Materiality of Sculpture
PAUL EDMUNDS
NANDIPHA MNTAMBO
WIM BOTHA
WILLEM BOSHOFF
SIEMON ALLEN
STEPHEN HOBBS
ALAN ALBOROUGH
Chapter 10 - The Poetics of Paint
MUSTAFA MALUKA
MOSHEKWA LANGA
JOHANNES PHOKELA
DOROTHEE KREUTZFELDT
DAVID KOLOANE
Chapter 11 - Acting Out: The Installation and Performance Artists
KAY HASSAN
CANDICE BREITZ
RUTH SACKS
TRACEY ROSE
ED YOUNG
KATHRYN SMITH
DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE
JAMES WEBB
ANDREW PUTTER
DOUGLAS GIMBERG and CHRISTIAN NERF
RALPH BORLAND
ANTHEA MOYS
Chapter 12 - Through the Lens: New Interpretations of the Photographic
GUY TILLIM
PIETER HUGO
JO RACTLIFFE
MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY
NONTSIKELELO VELEKO
HASAN and HUSAIN ESSOP
LAWRENCE LEMAOANA
Biographies
Chronology
Index
Acknowledgments
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