Web Reference #: BOP1 TITLE: Africus: Johannesburg Biennale. DATE: 1995 NOTES: Includes essential biographies of artists participating in this seminal exhibition, which signaled South Africa's return to the international art arena after the years of isolation during the anti-Apartheid boycott. Several critical essays by leading writers. 303 pages, full color throughout.
		Web Reference #: BOP7 AUTHOR: Rory Doepel. TITLE: Ubu: + 101: William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell DATE: 1997 NOTES: Catalogue of exhibition by these leading artists dealing with the theme of Alfred Jarry's character named Ubu. Includes essay by Rory Doepel, William Kentridge, Ivor Powell, and Adrienne Sichel, and Alfred Jarry's opening speech and programme notes for the play Ubu Roi (1896). 70 pages, 14 color and numerous B&W images.
		Web Reference #: BOP13 AUTHOR: Jane Taylor TITLE: Ubu and the Truth Commission DATE: 1998 NOTES: Contains full playscript for William Kentridge's acclaimed multi-dimensional theatre piece Ubu and the Truth Commission, produced in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company. The play brings together Alfred Jarry's ridiculous despot, Ubu Roi, and the testimony of witnesses at South Africa's Truth Commission Hearings into abuses of human rights during the Apartheid era. Includes Director's Note by Kentridge, numerous b.&w. performance photographs, and stills from Kentridge's animated drawings for the play. 73 pages, 137 b.&w. illustrations.
		Web Reference #: BOP14 AUTHOR: Sue Williamson & Ashraf Jamal TITLE: Art in South Africa: The Future Present DATE: 1996 NOTES: Brief essays showcasing the work of 40 prominent South African artists, both established and emerging. Indispensable reference. 159 pages, 294 color illustrations, 13 b.&w. Out of print.
		Web Reference #: BOP15 AUTHOR: Gavin Younge TITLE: Art of the South African Townships. DATE: 1988 NOTES: The first book to focus on contemporary art by Black South African artists, published during the height of Apartheid repression and resistance. Features the work of 51 artists, many of whom have gained international recognition. Indispensable reference. 96 pages, full color. Out of print.
		Web Reference #: BOP18 AUTHOR: Sue Williamson TITLE: Resistance Art in South Africa DATE: 1989 NOTES: Thirteen scholarly essays, accompanying an exhibition of Zulu material drawn from several leading South African museums, provide the most comprehensive source to date on Zulu material culture. Indispensable reference. 216 pages, 387 color illustrations, 92 b.&w. Out of print.
		Web Reference #: BOP28 AUTHOR: Emma Bedford (ed.) TITLE: Contemporary South African Art 1985-1995, from the South African National Gallery Permanent Collection DATE: 1995 NOTES: Bedford, the National Gallery's curator of painting and sculpture, presents a complete guide to the acquisitions of the SA National Gallery during this period, highlighting the effects of national politics on acquisitions. Features works by 131 South African artists, with useful career résumés. 176 pages, 68 color illustrations, 84 b.&w.
		Web Reference #: B8 AUTHOR: Joseph Sherman (ed.) TITLE: Three Sculptors/Three Readers DATE: 1995 PRICE: $ 39.95 NOTES: The work of three eminent South African sculptors, Neels Coetzee, Walter Oltmann, and Peter Schütz, all having long-standing associations with the Dept. of Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, are respectively discussed in essays by Rory Doepal, Elizabeth Rankin, and Reingard Nethersole, senior academics in the Dept. of Fine Arts and Comparative Literature. Additional contributions by Joseph Sherman and Alan Crump, Chairman of the Standard Bank National Arts Festival. 60 pages, 6 full color plates, 43 b.&w.
		Web Reference #: B2 AUTHOR: Brenda Atkinson and Candice Breitz (eds.) TITLE: Grey Areas: Representation, Identity and Politics in Contemporary South African Art DATE: 1999 PRICE: $ 35 NOTES: Highlights debates that emerged at the time of the Second Johannesburg Biennial, under the creative direction of Okwui Enwezor, about South African art in the broader context of contemporary art and African identity. Includes 35 essays by leading artists, critics and commentators from South Africa and elsewhere. 321 pages, 12 color illustrations, 1 b.&w.
		Web Reference #: B24 AUTHOR: Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe (eds) TITLE: Authentic/Excentric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art ISBN: 90-76162-06-9 DATE: 2001 (paperback) PRICE: $ 32 NOTES: The catalog of the 49th Venice Bienale exhibition featuring artists of African or African-diaspora descent. Includes essays by the editors and Okwui Enwezor and Siemon Allen. Essays on the work of Willem Boshoff, Maria magdalena Compos-Pons, Godfried Donkor, Rachid Kora•chi, Berni Searle, Zineb Sedira and Yinka Shonibare by, respectively, Rory Doepal, Sally Berger, Christian Viverous-FaunŽ,Maryline Lostia, Annie Coombes, Gilane Tawadros, and Enwezor. Includes bibliography, artists' biographies, list of works on exhibition, index, and notes on contributors. 264 pages, full color illustrations throughout.
		Web Reference #: B15 AUTHOR: Jürgen Schadeberg and Anthony Sampson TITLE: Sof'town Blues: ../pics from the black '50s DATE: 1994 PRICE: $60.00 NOTES: Highlights from Drum magazine, South Africa's first mass-circulation magazine geared toward urban black readers in the 1950s. Includes photographs by Schadeberg, photo editor of the magazine, and the first generation of black photographers who worked with him, Bob Gosani, Peter Magubane, Ranjyth Kally, Gopal Naransamy, GR Naidoo, and Lionel Oostendorp. Essays by Schadeberg and Drum journalist Anthony Samson evoke the "Golden Age of Black Journalism" the vibrant black culture of the 1950s, and growing repression and resistance during the Apartheid regime. Includes brief chronology of key events beween 1948 and 1960, and a brief "who's who" of the 1950s. 160 pages, 149 B&W photographs.
		Web Reference #: BOP31 AUTHOR: Brenda Goldblatt and Phillip Van Niekerk TITLE: The Transported of Kwandebele DATE: NOTES: David Goldblatt's photographic essay on migrant laborers under Apartheid, as exhibited in New York in 1989 through the Aperture Foundation. Includes laborers' accounts from interviews by Brenda Goldblatt. Van Niekerk's essay situates the practice within Apartheid's "grand design". Afterword by Alex Harris discusses censorship and the role of documentary photography. Includes glossary and maps. 84 pages, B&W. Softback.
		Web Reference #: BOP32 AUTHOR: Nadine Gordimer and David Goldblatt TITLE: Lifetimes under Apartheid DATE: NOTES: Excerpts from the celebrated author's works, interspersed with a selection from Goldblatt's archive of 35 years' work, weave an abject portrait that lives up to the title. Published in 1986, at the height of repression, this book is a classic of liberal opposition to Apartheid. 116 pages, B&W throughout. Hardback.
		Web Reference #: BOP33 AUTHOR: Roger Ballen TITLE: Platteland: Images from Rural South Africa DATE: NOTES: American-born Roger Ballen's documentary portraits of the white rural underclass, critically received in South Africa, were hailed as extraordinary by Susan Sontag. The images, spanning more than a decade, echo the pioneering documentary work of Walker Evans and others. 136 pages, B&W. Hardback.
		Web Reference #: BOP34 AUTHOR: Clare Bell, Okwui Enwezor, Danielle Tilkin, Octavio Zaya TITLE: In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present DATE: NOTES: This influential exhibition, which coincided with the exhibition "Africa: Art of a Continent" at the Guggenheim Museum in 1996, introduced African photography to the American art world. Includes 30 photographers, extensive plates, useful biographies and photographers' statements, and essays by the curators and others. 280 pages, B&W and color. Hardcover or paperback (please inquire).
		Web Reference #: BOP19 AUTHOR: Dirk Schwager & Colleen Schwager TITLE: Lesotho DATE: 1972 NOTES: A photographic record of Lesotho during the 1960s and early 1970s, with texts on history and various aspects of development. 96 pages, bibliography, 72 full-page photographs in B&W and color. Cloth. Out of print.
		Web Reference #: BOP39 TITLE: Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People AUTHOR: Noel Mostert NOTES: Bestselling, Pulitzer prizewinning author Mostert turns his storytelling skills to a serious, factual, accurate yet eminently readable and entertaining account of the Xhosa people from their first encounter with Europeans in the 1400s until the destruction of their independence. pp. 1357, 47 B&W illustrations of historic events and persons, notes, maps, genealogical table, index, comprehensive bibliography.
		Web Reference #: BOP40 TITLE: Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa AUTHOR: Barbara Tyrrell NOTES: Classic study by renowned artist who began documenting dress and costumes of 25 southern African peoples in the 1940s through the 1960s. Her meticulously detailed color sketches provide a rare and accurate record of dress and appearance among these peoples during the mid 20th century. Her text descriptions record some interesting facts. pp. 256, 96 color plates, 76 black-and-white line drawings, bibliography, index.
		Web Reference #: BOP41 TITLE: Suspicion Is My Name AUTHOR: Barbara Tyrrell NOTES: Writing in the voice of a young Zulu-speaking woman, named Suspicion, Tyrrell describes the customs and beliefs of the Bhaca people in the Richmond area of KwaZulu-Natal, where Tyrrell herself was raised. Her meticulously detailed color sketches provide a unique and in-depth record of Bhaca dress during the mid 20th century. Her drawings of costumes worn by different social types are especially valuable. pp. 191, 21 color plates, 69 black-and-white line drawings, bibliography, index.
		Web Reference #: BOP42 AUTHOR: Gary van Wyk TITLE: Ubuntu: Arts et cultures d'Afrique du Sud NOTES: Catalog of a major exhibiton of African art from the subcontinent, held at the French national museum for the arts of African and Oceania in Paris during 2002. Catalog illustrates more than 200 objects drawn from the French national collections and significant loans from South Africa. Scholarly essays by leading South African and French specialists Rayda Becker, Sylvie Brun, Patricia Davison, Lindsay Hooper, Sandra Klopper, David Lewis-Williams, Helene Joubert, Pumula Madiba, Karel Nel, Anitra Nettleton, Andrew Smith, Manuel Valentin, Johnny van Schalkwyk, and Gary van Wyk. Texts in French. pp.372 full color throughout, list of ethnic groups, timeline, maps.
		Web Reference #: BOP37 AUTHOR: William F. Lye and Colin Murray TITLE: Transformations: The Tswana and Southern Sotho DATE: 1980 NOTES: An historical and anthropological account of the Tswana and Southern Sotho peoples written by an historian and a social anthropologist, in an interdisciplinary approach to understanding both the history and contemporary situation of rural Southern Africa. Features with numerous black and white and colour photographs, maps, diagrams, and historical watercolours. Indexed with suggested further reading. 160 pages. Hardcover.
		Web Reference #: BOP38 AUTHOR: Martin Hall TITLE: Farmers, Kings, and Traders: The People of Southern Africa 200-1860 DATE: 1990 NOTES: Covers the history and myths of Southern Africa from 200-1860, looking at the origins and developments of the societies of the region, including the Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe. Features many maps and archaeological drawings, also some black and white photographs, references and index. 161 pages. Paperback.
		Web Reference #: BOP35 AUTHOR: [Various] TITLE: Art and Ambiguity: Perspectives on the Brenthurst Collection of Southern African Art DATE: NOTES: Catalog of the Johannesburg Art Gallery's groundbreaking exhibition (1991-92), with scholarly essays by Rayda Becker, Patricia Davison, Sandra Klopper, Diane Levy, Anitra Nettleton, Johan Van Schalkwyk, Ann Wanless. Illustrates more than 900 objects, from the collection assembled by Jonathan Lowen and from other South African museums. 206 pages, several color plates, B&W throughout. Paperback.
		Web Reference #: BOP36 AUTHOR: Dawn Costello TITLE: Not Only For Its Beauty: Beadwork and its cultural significance among the Xhosa-speaking peoples. DATE: NOTES:Catalog for an exhibition of Xhosa beadwork fabrics and objects held at the University of Pretoria. Includes color illustrations and detailed catalog notes on each of 237 objects, with detailed essay by the author. 88 pages, 41 pages in color. Hardback.
		Web Reference #: B19 AUTHOR: Gary van Wyk TITLE: African Painted Houses: Basotho Dwellings of Southern Africa DATE: 1998 PRICE: $ 65 NOTES: The first comprehensive survey of the arts, ceremony, and architecture of the Basotho people of Lesotho and South Africa. New York Times Book Review's top pick for architectural books of 1998 (Martin Filler, Dec. 6, 1998). Featured book of the month on Africa Online's Bookstore in April 1999. 168 pages, 219 illustrations, 161 full color plates.
		Web Reference #: BOP2 AUTHOR: Emma Bedford (ed.) TITLE: Ezakwantu: Beadwork from the Eastern Cape DATE: 1993 NOTES: Catalogue and 12 scholarly essays accompanying the first and only specialized exhibition of the beadwork of the Xhosa-speaking peoples. 112 pages, 20 color illustrations, 88 b.&w.
		Web Reference #: BOP3 AUTHOR: Bergh, J.S. & A.P. Bergh TITLE: Tribes and Kingdoms. DATE: 1984 NOTES: Excellent and succinct history of the peoples of South Africa during the 1800s, with many useful maps and archival images of leading characters, costumes, and artifacts. 80 pages, full color throughout, includes index and bibliography.
		Web Reference #: BOP4 AUTHOR: H.F. Bohme TITLE: Some Nguni Crafts: Part 1 Calabashes DATE: 1976 NOTES: Encyclopedic treatment of published references to the use of gourds among the Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi, Ndebele, and related peoples. Includes use as dolls, as containers for snuff, milk, and medicine, as musical instruments, combs, penis sheaths, etc. Includes numerous photographs from South African museum collections, field photographs, diagrams, indigenous terms, and comprehensive bibliography. 78 pages, B&W illustrations.
		Web Reference #: BOP5 AUTHOR: Broster, Joan A. TITLE: The Tembu: Their Beadwork, Songs, and Dances DATE: 1976 NOTES: Classic account of the Thembu, a subgroup of the Xhosa. The author lived among the Thembu between 1952 and 1966, and developed an intense interest in their traditional life and customs. She assembled a unique collection of their beadwork and costume, much of which is illustrated in this volume. 118 pages, 81 color and 5 B&W, numerous line drawings, index.
		Web Reference #: BOP6 AUTHOR: Broster, Joan A. TITLE: Amagqirha: Religion, Magic and Medicine in the Transkei DATE: 1982 NOTES: Unique oral and pictorial record of diviners among the Xhosa-speaking peoples of the former Transkei. Profusely illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white photographs by Herbert C. Bourn. 126 pages, 101 color and numerous B&W photographs, line drawings, bibliography, list of medicinal plants, glossary, index.
		Web Reference #: BOP8 AUTHOR: David Hammond-Tooke and Anitra Nettleton (eds.) TITLE: Catalogue:Ten Years of Collecting (1979-1989). DATE: 1989 NOTES: Covers the first decade of South African acquisitions of the Gertrude Posel Gallery at Univ. of Wits (Standard Bank Collection). Scholarly essays on the traditional arts of the following peoples: Venda, Tsonga (Shangane), Pedi and Ntwane, Ndebele, Zulu and Xhosa. Additional essays on African artists working in both urban and rural areas. Out of print; rare. 140 pages, 68 color and 47 B&W plates.
		Web Reference #: BOP9 AUTHOR: Aubrey Elliot TITLE: The Magic World of the Xhosa DATE: 1970 NOTES: Documents a photographer's research on the traditional practices and the beadwork costuming of the Xhosa of the former Ciskei between 1956 to 1970. Provides a vital historical record of the Ngqika and Gqunukwebe clans of the Xhosa during this period. 144 pages, 65 color illustrations, 66 b.&.w. Out of print.
		Web Reference #: BOP10 AUTHOR: Lindsay Hooper TITLE: Some Nguni Crafts: Part 3 Wood-carving DATE: 1981 NOTES: Encyclopedic survey of every published reference to the wooden sculpture of the Zulu, Xhosa, and related peoples, including headrests, platters, clubs, vessels, spoons, etc. 312 pages, numerous B&W photographs of museum objects and field photography.
		Web Reference #: BOP11 AUTHOR: Nettleton, Anitra and Hammond-Tooke, David. TITLE: African Art in Southern Africa: From Tradition to Township. DATE: 1989 NOTES: Essays on the arts of the San (Lewis-Williams), Zulu (Klopper), Venda (Nettleton), Lobedu (Davison), and Ndebele (Schneider), on Zulu beadwork and tourist arts (Preston-Whyte and Thorpe), and essays on "Township Art" by artist David Koloane, Steven Sack, and Frances Verstraete. 252 pages, 52 color and 51 B&W plates. Out of print, rare.
		Web Reference #: BOP12 AUTHOR: E.M. Shaw and N.J. Van Warmelo TITLE: The Material Culture of the Cape Nguni: Part 4 Personal and general DATE: 1986 NOTES: This astoundingly comprehensive work contains every known published reference to the costume, beadwork, pipes, snuff containers and other material culture of the Xhosa-speaking peoples of the Eastern Cape, dating from the 1500s onward. Indispensable to all scholars of Xhosa material culture. 949 pages, 57 b.&w. plates, each containing several illustrations or photographs.
		Web Reference #: BOP16 TITLE: Zulu Treasures: Of Kings and Commoners: A celebration of the material culture of the Zulu people/Amagugu Kazulu: Amakhosi Nabantukazana DATE: 1996 NOTES: Thirteen scholarly essays, accompanying an exhibition of Zulu material drawn from several leading South African museums, provide the most comprehensive source to date on Zulu material culture. Indispensable reference. 216 pages, 387 color illustrations, 92 b.&w. Out of print.
		Web Reference #: BOP17 AUTHOR: Margaret Courtney-Clarke TITLE: Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe DATE: 1986 NOTES: A 5-year photographic project on the mural art, beadwork, and ceremonies of the Ndebele people of South Africa. 203 pages, color illustrations throughout. Cloth. Out of print.
		Web Reference #: BOP20 AUTHOR: J.B. Peires TITLE: The House of Phalo: A History of the Xhosa People in the Days of Their Independence DATE: 1981 NOTES: The first modern history of the Xhosa, covering the period from precolonial times until 1850. Incorporates Xhosa oral and written history. Appendices on Xhosa historiography, fieldwork methods, informants, clan histories. Extensive bibliography, index, 281 pages. Paperback.
		Web Reference #: BOP22 AUTHOR: Axel-Ivar Berglund TITLE: Zulu Thought-Patterns and Symbolism DATE: 1976 NOTES: Classic study of traditional Zulu symbolism and worldview, drawn from 12 years of fieldwork by the author, a Zulu-speaker.
		Web Reference #: BOP23 AUTHOR: Donald R. Morris TITLE: The Washing of the Spear: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation DATE: 1965 (and other editions) NOTES: An accessible account of the rise of the Zulu under Shaka in the late 1700s through the destruction of the Zulu Kingdom by the British in 1879. Cloth. Out of print.
		Web Reference #: BOP24 AUTHOR: Brendan Bell and Ian Calder TITLE: Ubumba: Aspects of indigenous ceramics in KwaZulu-Natal DATE: 1998 NOTES: Contains 11 scholarly essays on various aspects of pre-Zulu and Zulu pottery, including archaeological finds, tourist ware, and the development of fine-art pottery. 147 pages, B&W illustrations throughout, extensive bibliography.
		Web Reference #: BOP25 AUTHOR: Jean Morris and Martin West TITLE: Abantu: An Introduction to the Black People of South Africa DATE: 1976 NOTES: Accessible notes on the Xhosa, Zulu, Venda, Swazi, Ndebele, Tsonga, Tswana, North Sotho, an South Sotho (Basotho), written by social anthropologist Martin West, accompany photographs by Jean Morris, taken in the 1960s and early 1970s. 184 pages, color throughout, index, and bibliography. Cloth.
		Web Reference #: BOP29 AUTHOR: Alice Mertens & Hilgard Schoeman TITLE: The Zulu ISBN: 0 356 08323 3 (hardcover) PUBLISHER: Macdonald and Janes, London, 1975 PRICE: $ 75.00 NOTES: Schoeman, a professional anthropologist specialized in Zulu culture, and noted professional photographer Mertens provide and in-depth and beautifully photographed survey of Zulu culture, with particular emphasis on traditional arts. 167 pages, 147 b&w and 63 color plates, map, foreword, bibliography. Out of print, rare.
		Web Reference #: BOP30 AUTHOR: Aubrey Elliot TITLE: Sons of Zulu ISBN: 0 00 216785 9 (cloth) PUBLISHER: Collins, London, Johannesburg, 1978 PRICE: $ 70.00 NOTES: A profusely illustrated book by an accomplished ethnographic photographer. Examines environment, history, social structure, labor and leisure, cycle of life, and rituals. Compares 19th-century dress and artifacts with styles in the 1970s. Includes a section on the coronation festivities for King Goodwill Zweletini. 208 pages, 48 color illustrations, 56 b.&.w, map, index. Out of print.
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