Art of the South African Townships

Foreword by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu. With 134 illustrations, 100 in colour.4to. Illustrated wrappers. *** An informative and richly illustrated book on 1980s South African folk art, with short biographies of the most important artists: ‘It focuses on the extraordinary flowering of township art in the 1980s, examines the struggles which have shaped it and looks at the ways in which the work of individual artists have shaped native and foreign influences into an art of protest.’ Pristine copy!