A decade of democracy
Subtitle: witnessing South Africa  : [exhibition]
By: edited by Gary Van Wyk ; contributions by Sophia Ainslie ... [et al.].
Contributors: Van Wyk, Gary.; Ainslee, Sophia.
Publisher: South Africa Development Fund
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Boston?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780974883809
Subjects: Art, South African -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.; Art, South African -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa articulates the variety of strategies that South African artists use to connect their living history with its past. The framework is to allow for the works to create a conversation that explores the impact of apartheid witnessing the complexities and multitude of issues that South Africa is confronting today.
Notes: Distributed in the United States by Axis Gallery, and sondela.

Sondela is a project of the South Africa Development Fund, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references.

Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation with additional support by a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
Table of contents: title: Foreword. Africa in the African American imagination : a brief perspective / Edmund Barry Gaither; title: Essays. Reflecting democracy / Gary Van Wyk ; !Ke e lxara llke South African art under the sign of freedom / Andries Walter Oliphant ; Curating a decade of democracy : witnessing South Africa : a personal experience / Sipho Mdanda ; Our giftedness / Colin Richards ; Traversing and transcending spaces : the roles of the artists'  workshop and the collective studio in contemporary South African art / David Koloane; title: Perspectives. Social and political issues in South Africa and the United States / Winston E. Langley ; Building creative community / Robin Chandler ; Perspective / Dana Chandler ; On secrets and lies : embodying the past/envisaging the future / Annie E. Coombes ; A decade of democracy and development / Jemadari Kamara; title: Curators' perspectives. A decade of democracy : witnessing South Africa / Tumelo Mosaka ; The voice of the nation / Sophia Ainslie ; A conversation / Thembinkosi Goniwe and Gary Van Wyk.