VISUAL CENTURY

Visual Century ; South African Art in Context 1907-2007 is an ambitious four-volume publication that reappraises 100 years of South African visual art from a post-apartheid perspective. It is the first wide-ranging survey of its contemporary art to incorporate multiple writers and perspectives.

By contextualising South African art within broader historical currents, Visual Century makes a major contribution towards the construction of an inclusive national archive, as well as to the development of an inclusive international art history.

Wide-ranging and in-depth essays by over 30 contributors - including many of South Africa’s leading art historians, cultural commentators and artists - make it an indispensable resource for curators, historians, students and artists. Lavish full colour illustrations, often of rare or seldom-seen artworks, make this collection a treasure for all art lovers with an interest in South African art.

Project initiator and director Gavin Jantjes is a South African artist currently based at Norway’s National Museum. Pallo Jordan, former Minister of Arts and Culture, supported the idea with seed funding to commission and develop the manuscript. Together with editor-in-chief, Mario Pissarra of Africa South Arts Initiative (ASAI), Jantjes commissioned and oversaw the exciting process of writing the book.

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