Strange Cargo : Essays on Art

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Strange Cargo : Essays on Art

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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.

185 illustrations

Hardcover

544 pages

Dimensions: 24 x 16.5 x 3.55 cm

ISBN: 9788857246550

Publisher: Skira

Published Aug 02, 2022

Country of Publication: Milan, Italy

Weight: 1.5 kg

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Skira is a publishing firm founded by Albert Skira in Switzerland in 1928 and is now based in Italy. The firm is known particularly for its art books of vastly improved quality of colour reproduction.

An international publisher known for quality fine art publishing around the world, Skira publishes over 250 new titles each year. Additionally, aside from publishing catalogues for major global events, the company is also, and above all, the most important player in Italy in the fields of exhibition conception and production.

Sven Christian is a writer, editor, and curator. In early 2022, he was appointed curator of NIROX Sculpture Park and the Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture (currently under construction at NIROX). He completed an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practices at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2020, published in part by The Garage Journal.

Skira is a publishing firm founded by Albert Skira in Switzerland in 1928 and is now based in Italy. The firm is known particularly for its art books of vastly improved quality of colour reproduction.

An international publisher known for quality fine art publishing around the world, Skira publishes over 250 new titles each year. Additionally, aside from publishing catalogues for major global events, the company is also, and above all, the most important player in Italy in the fields of exhibition conception and production.

Sven Christian is a writer, editor, and curator. In early 2022, he was appointed curator of NIROX Sculpture Park and the Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture (currently under construction at NIROX). He completed an MA in Contemporary Curatorial Practices at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2020, published in part by The Garage Journal.

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