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The book Red on Black tells the story of the movement to create visual expression around South Africa’s struggle for liberation and human dignity. From 1975 to 2000, the South African poster movement produced striking images that recorded, interpreted, and engaged with the mass struggle for a new South Africa.

This book begins to place these images of resistance – posters, graphics, paintings on banners and murals on walls – into their crucial position within South Africa’s visual heritage.

Judy Seidman, the author of Red on Black, is at present curator of the poster collection at the South African History Archive. She was a poster-maker, a member of Medu Art Ensemble in Gaberone in the early 1980s, as well as a member of the collective that produced Images of Defiance in 1990. Red on Black comes out of extensive interviews with poster-makers and artists throughout South Africa, as well as the visual wealth of the posters collected in the South African History Archives.

Author: Judy Seidman, English, .

Specifications: Soft cover, 293x206mm, 237 pp, b&w & colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1919 855905 .

Price (ZA) R290.00

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