THE STORY, IN BRIEF
Reflecting on an Ernest Mancoba symposium at Cape Town’s A4 Foundation, ArtThrob argues that fixed artistic and national categories can flatten a complex life. The essay considers Mancoba’s movement between South Africa and Europe, his family’s collaborative intellectual life, and his work across abstraction and figuration. It welcomes renewed attention while questioning attempts to fit the artist neatly into a single modernist or national canon.
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The Limits of Categories: Ernest Mancoba Symposium at A4 Foundation
Matthew Blackman · 20 Feb 2020 · Independent publisher
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