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Public intimacy : art and other ordinary acts in South Africa / [curators, Betti-Sue Hertz, Frank Smigiel, Dominic Willsdon].

Title
  1. Public intimacy : art and other ordinary acts in South Africa / [curators, Betti-Sue Hertz, Frank Smigiel, Dominic Willsdon].
Published by
  1. San Francisco : Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, [2014?]

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Additional authors
  1. Hertz, Betti-Sue
  2. Smigiel, Frank
  3. Willsdon, Dominic
  4. Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens host institution.
  5. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art host institution.
Description
  1. 291 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm
Summary
  1. Public intimacy' brings together 25 artists and collectives who disrupt expected images of a country known largely through its apartheid history. The book presents a critical sensibility that existed but was mostly overlooked during apartheid, and which is now shared by many artists and writers of a new generation--the expression of the poetics and politics of the "ordinary act." Public Intimacy includes works by Ian Berry, Chimurenga, Ernest Cole, DavidGoldblatt, Handspring Puppet Company, Nicholas Hlobo, ijusi (Garth Walker), Anton Kannemeyer, William Kentridge, Donna Kukama, Terry Kurgan, Sabelo Mlangeni, Santu Mofokeng, Billy Monk, Anthea Moys, Zanele Muholi, Sello Pesa and Vaughn Sadie, Cameron Platter, Lindeka Qampi, Jo Ractliffe, Athi-Patra Ruga, Berni Searle, Penny Siopis, Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse and Kemang Wa Lehulere. 0Exhibition: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A. (21.02-29.06.2014).
Subject
  1. Art and society
  2. Art > Political aspects
  3. Art, South African
  4. Exhibition catalogs
  5. 2000-2099
  6. South Africa
  7. Art and society > South Africa > Exhibitions
  8. Art > Political aspects > South Africa > Exhibitions
  9. Art, South African > 21st century > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition catalogs
Note
  1. Jointly organized by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
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