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Cape Dutch Homesteads
Photographs by David Goldblatt & Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Text by John Kench |
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Books
“The art of Africa is known as a casualty of colonial exploitation, surviving principally in the museums of other continents, never seen by the people who created it. What reappears among African artists today is regarded as a renaissance of a destroyed tradition.
Margaret Courtney-Clarke’s book is a revelation, not of that renaissance but of a glorious continued existence, under the most destructive forms of physical and psychological hardship imaginable, of an artistic culture at the very centre of life itself…..The beauty of this book is unsurpassed in its combination of content and meaning. Its art is also the art of life”
Nadine Gordimer
“What is Africa to me? It is mysterious, it is exciting, and it has been made more wonderful and more knowable because of the women’s art. The women of West Africa and Margaret Courtney-Clarke”
Maya Angelou
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