Ndebele : the art of an African tribe / photographs and text by Margaret Courtney-Clarke; foreword by David Goldblatt
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2022Description: 200 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:- 0-500-28387-7
- GEN 305.8963 COU
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GEN 301.2968 SOU South Africa : sociological perspectives / | GEN 301.4510968 VEN Coloured : a profile of the two million South Africans / | GEN 305.839368 The white tribe of Africa : South Africa in perspective / | GEN 305.8963 COU Ndebele : the art of an African tribe / | GEN 305.8963 RIC Chisungu : a girl's initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Zambia / | GEN 305.8963 TUR The Lozi peoples of North-Western Rhodesia / | GEN 306 KRA Verkehrte Welten : zur imaginären Ethnographie des 19. Jahrhunderts / |
Includes a glossary, selected bibliography and an index of artists
For generations, the women of the South African Ndebele tribe have produced a rich, living art. They continue to do so today, conjuring up on the walls of their houses a world of spontaneous forms with intricate beadwork and wall painting. Their dynamic compositions and blazing colors show a bold graphic quality that makes them appear stunningly fresh and modern.
Margaret Courtney-Clarke spent five years visiting the Ndebele and recording their art. Her work on this book began long before the political upheavals following the end of apartheid and the coming to power of the black majority in South Africa. The Ndebele from the southern Transvaal, whose art is documented here, were violently displaced and forcibly resettled in the newly created KwaNdebele homeland. During her later visits Courtney-Clarke discovered that more and more of her favorite paintings had decayed or disappeared after the family had either moved away or been forcibly resettled. The result in several cases is that her photographs are the only surviving documents of some of the most impressive of Ndebele artworks.
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