Public Sculpture & Reliefs, Cape Town – Crump, Alan & Van Niekerk, Raymund
Public Sculpture & Reliefs, Cape Town – Crump, Alan & Van Niekerk, Raymund
Hardcover, ISBN 9780620124645
Publisher: Clifton Publications, 1988 1st Edition
Publication on sculpture in streets and parks of our major cities as well as being a guide to many of South Africa’s more important sculptures. Insight into the history of each piece, what it means, its style and why it was commissioned. 4 maps of the South Peninsula marking the sites of sculptures.
Published thirty years ago, this book reminds us that vandalism of public sculptures, as happened recently in Cape Town, is nothing new. Co-author Alan Crump writes (p 14): "The tearing down and wanton destruction of public sculptures, only to be replaced by new effigies, is a well-known political action. One idol is replaced by another and in some cases materials are recycled, for example, reusing melted bronze . . . During the twentieth century, Russia has seen this twice . . . The same actions occurred in Nazi Germany and Mozambique . . . "
Unclipped colour-photographic dustjacket, white cloth-grained paper-boards, blue lettered to the upper panel and spine, plain endpapers, 71 pp of text illustrated by 45 colour photograps, index to 82 monuments and their locations, and maps of these locations (Foreshore, City, Gardens, Peninsula).
The copy is complete, unmarked and as new throughout.
- Jacket Condition: Fine
- Binding Condition: Fine
- Overall Condition: Fine
- Size: 250 x 195
