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Rediscovering the Ordinary: A Diary of Field Visits

Item date(s): 1993

Kim Berman
Njabulo S. Ndebele  - (text by)


Pages: unpaged (11 plates)
Size: 268mm, oblong
Binding: Large etching over both front and back covers
Language: English
Inscription: Signed by the artist


Place publication: (Johannesburg, RSA)
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
"South African society, as we have seen, is a very public society. It is public precisely in the sense that its greatest aberrations are fully exhibited . . . Consequently, we have a society of posturing and sloganeering; one that frowns upon subtlety of thought and feeling, and never permits the sobering power of contemplation, of close analysis, and the mature acceptance of failure, weakness, and limitations.

It is totally heroic . . .

Clearly the culture of the spectacular, in not permitting itself the growth of complexity, has run its course."

NJABULO NDEBELE. Rediscovery of the Ordinary

Quotation taken from the book 'South African Literature and Culture - Rediscovery of the Ordinary' published by Manchester University Press.

Plates:

1. Sekhukhuneland

2. Sekhukhune

3. Chris Hani Park, Kimberly

4. Dobsonville, a day after the removals

5/6. The Road from Driefontein.

7/8. Eastern Transvaal Series

9. OFS Drought Series

10. Chris Hani Park, Kimberley

11. Alex

Reference note:
The title is "Rediscovering the Ordinary"; the quote is "Rediscovery of the Ordinary", the subtitle of the book.

Ref: GB31741







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