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Land and Lives - A story of early black artists

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‘Land and Lives’ is one in a sequence of revisionist exhibitions that have attempted to change our

understanding of race, modernity, and the artistic canon. This was the aim of the 1985 BMW Tributaries

show and 1988 Johannesburg Art Gallery’s ‘The Neglected Tradition’, to name but two. In ‘Land and Lives’,

however,curator Elza Miles offers a different perspective. What she does is bring to a level of

consciousness a series of invisible connections: for instance, the surprising juxtaposition of Louis Maurice

and Selby Mvusi (both of whom exhibited at the First Quadrennial Exhibition of South African Art in 1956),

or Job Kekana and Ernest Mancoba (both of whom studied under Sister Pauline at the Diocesan College at

Grace Dieu). To appreciate these synchronicities fully you need to turn to the catalogue. Elza Miles is one

of this country’s most importantand least appreciated archivists. Over the years, in a career of fidgeting

and ferreting, she has established a remarkable collection of information about unrecognised black artists.

It is an archive based on interviews, stories, and records of training.

Author: Elza Miles, English, Art General .

Specifications: hardcover, 285 x 220 mm, 192 pages, illustrations
, ISBN: 978 0798136587 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Keywords: African, Art, Dorothy Zihlangu, ernest-mancoba, Gerard-Sekoto, Gladys Mgudlandlu, Peter-Clarke, Thomas Masekela

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