A reference text documenting "the visual art of the new culture of resistance emerging in South Africa - the work of over a hundred artists and cultural workers seen in the context of the troubled society in which they live.
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Catalogue of sculpture selected from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska. Contributions by Karen O. Janovy, David Cateforis, Daniel A. Seidell, Peter Boswell, Nancy Dawson, Janice Driesbach, Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, Charles C.
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Critical theory text discussing themes and origins of contemporary art. The title, "Synnyt," refers to the Finnish word meaning 'birth' and 'to be born,' and also to Finnish mythology, in which the word alluded to a story that "explained the cause or origin of a given creature, disease or other phenomenon and it was believed that knowledge of the true 'synty' or origin gave its possessor power over the phenomenon in question.
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Anthology of essays "written between 1971 and 1981, covering performance from the Renaissance to the present, with a focus on the 1970s. The essays offer a wide variety of ideas from the points of view of critics and of the artists themselves.
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