ART & ARTISTS OF SOUTH AFRICA - 1970 - First edition

Olive Green Cloth. Gilt A.A.B. logo to front cover and gilt title to spine. 368 pages, illustrated throughout with black-and-white, and colour reproductions of art works. Appendices, bibliography & references, and index.The book is in very good, clean and tight condition. The dust-jacket is rubbed and slightly faded with a few minor chips and tears along the edges. A very good, clean reference copy of this essential work on South African art. In addition to more than 300 biographies of painters and graphic artists -- 190 of them in depth -- there are numerous articles and devoted to galleries and institutions, art groups and associations, as well as to the history of art activity in the main centres of South Africa. A historical survey outlines the sequence and the sources of the careers and movements with in the dictionary section of the book, and the concise historical table provides immediate reference on concurrent national and international events during any year between 1875 and 1969.