Painting in South Africa by Berman, Esme
Painting in South Africa by Berman, Esme
Hardcover, ISBN 9781868124794
Publisher: Southern Book Publishers, 1993 1 st Edition
Used - Very Good+. Protected with a Cellophane cover.
A magnificent narrative of the development of South African art from the 19th century onwards; each artistic term or label, when introduced, is defined and compared with precision and exactness; a monumental reference work. Cream cloth over boards; colour illustrated dust jacket; 395 pp; 229 bw figures: 99 colour plates.
An account of the pictures and people that have played a role in the modern history of South African art. The story opens in the second half of the 19th-century and charts the course of modern South African painting, from the descriptive records of the "Africana painters", through the various experimental forms of modernism, to the revisionist perceptions of end-of-the-century South Africa. The stylistic developments are dealt with in the context of the local circumstances and environment in which they occurred, but are also viewed against the background of world events and international artistic trends. The sources, aims and characters of many different styles and individual works of art are clearly illustrated and explained. The reproductions of works of art have been drawn, where possible, from public collections, thereby affording the reader the opportunity to study the original works of art in conjunction with the text.
