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Community Mural Art in South Africa

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South Africa has a very long history of mural art, beginning with the ancient San or Bushmen painted rock shelter. More recent are the various indigenous African traditions of decorating the homestead, and the wall painting practices of European settlers, who muralised the interior of their homes, such as the 18th century Uitkyk near Stellenbosch and the interior and sometimes exterior walls of churches. Another prominent category of wall paintings consists of the Afrikaner Nationalist murals commissioned by the state as a form of public art to celebrate Afrikaner culture. In the 1950s and 1960s it became customary for every newly constructed public building to be adorned with some type of public art work, mostly sculpture or mosaics, sometimes wall paintings.

Author: Sabine Marschall, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Hardcover,250x190mm, 290 pages, colour photographs
, ISBN: 978 1868 881 888 .

Price (ZA) R300.00

Keywords: Afrikaner Nationalism, Bookstore, community-mural-art-in-south-africa, indigenous-african-traditions, mural-art, public-art-work, South-African

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