Strange Cargo

Essays on Art

Ashraf Jama, Sven Christian

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Skira
20 November 2022

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Strange Cargo: Essays on Art is a collection of forty essays by Ashraf Jamal. It can be regarded as the twin of Jamal's previous book, In the World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art (2017). Both form part of a single venture to celebrate and entrench the rich complexity of South African artists in a global imaginary. The artists that Jamal chooses to reflect upon refuse to fit into a predictive algorithm. He has written with equal intensity about artists old and young, dead or alive, famous or relatively unknown, black or white, trending or not. Love and empathy-his indifference to difference-is his engine room, and much like the artists featured, Jamal does not only write for the moment we are in, but for a readership to come.

Text by: Ashraf Jama
Edited by: Sven Christian
Imprint: Skira
Country of Publication: Italy
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 165mm,
Weight: 1.500kg
ISBN: 9788857246550
ISBN 10: 8857246558
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 20 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ashraf Jamal is a Research Associate in the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg. He is the co-author of Art in South Africa: The Future Present and co-editor of Indian Ocean Studies: Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives. He is also the author of Predicaments of culture in South Africa, Love themes for the wilderness, and the award-winning short fiction, The Shades.

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Strange Cargo

Essays on Art

Ashraf Jama, Sven Christian

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Hardback

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