Rediscovering the Ordinary: A Diary of Field Visits
Item date(s): 1993
Kim Berman Njabulo S. Ndebele
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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.