The Art of Life in South Africa

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September 01 2018 The Art of Life in South Africa The Art of Life in South Africa by DanielMagaziner Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio. New African Histories series, 2016. 377 pp., 43 color ill., 49 b/w ill., map, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 paper Author and Article Information Online Issn: 1937-2108 Print Issn: 0001-9933 © 2018 by the Regents of the University of California.2018The Regents of the University of California African Arts (2018) 51 (3): 95–96. https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00425 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation The Art of Life in South Africa. African Arts 2018; 51 (3): 95–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00425 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsAfrican Arts Search Advanced Search In The Art of Life in South Africa, Daniel Magaziner examines the history of art education under apartheid in South Africa. The book focuses on Ndaleni, an art school for black South Africans, and considers the travails and triumphs of its artists and their teachers under white supremacy. At Ndaleni, students and teachers were bound together in learning “the art of life”; due to lack of funds, they improvised materials for artistic production. While the school existed, between the 1950s and 1980s, about 1,000 students graduated; about 2,000 could not be admitted due to constraints of space. This shows how Ndaleni appealed to many black South Africans as one of the few places they could develop their art. According to the Bantu Education Act of 1953 (p. 3), the purpose of the school was to preserve white supremacy, the segregation between African and European education—what Oguibe (2004) refers to... You do not currently have access to this content.