Community mural art in South Africa
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South Africa has a long history of mural art, beginning with the ancient San painted rock shelter, continuing through various African traditions of decorating the homestead, the wall painting practices of European settlers, and the Afrikaner Nationalist murals commissioned by the state as a form of public art. More recently there has been an explosion of urban community murals, making the medium highly visible and popular. This sudden flourishing of urban mural art closely mirrors dramatic changes in the socio-political landscape. By nature ephemeral, the book intends also to document examples.
There are 145 beautifully presented colour illustrations that demonstrate a particular point. The approach is primarily iconographic and thematic, and trace a particular theme through a range of mural across the boundaries of region and time.
