‘Take your road and travel along’: The Advent of the Modern Black Painter in Africa
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‘Take your road and travel along’ is a quote from a poem by Gerard Sekoto, and it aptly describes the difficult and lonely journey that the pioneers experienced both in trying to study art in their home countries and in leaving Africa to study in Europe. The assimilation of the European painting tradition into an African idiom resulted in a rich genre of work that is rarely researched and exhibited, even though it challenges and undermines many of the prevailing assumptions about modernism, modernity and the conception of the modern artist.”
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Published to accompany an exhibition presented by Michael Stevenson, Michael Graham-Stewart and Johans Borman, ‘Take your road and travel along’: The advent of the modern black painter in Africa pairs South African artists including Gerard Sekoto, George Pemba and Ernest Mancoba with their contemporaries from other parts of Africa, such as Ben Enwonwu from Nigeria and Sam Ntiro from Tanzania. It also includes the work of the next generation – artists associated with the Zaria Art Society and Oshogbo workshops in Nigeria, the Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg, Frank McEwen’s workshops at the National Gallery in Harare and the initiatives of Pancho Guedes in Maputo. The essay and commentary on the works are by Michael Stevenson and Joost Bosland.
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| Author | |
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| Date Published | 2008 |
| Language | English |
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| Specifications | Hardcover, 144 pp |
