Strange Cargo

Essays on Art

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A series of searing essays, capturing the spirit and essence of the South African landscape of contemporary 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.

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Weight 1514 g
Dimensions 17.5 x 24.7 cm
Publisher name Skira Editore S.p.A
Publication date 20 November 2022
Number of pages 544
Format Hardback
Contributors Text by Ashraf Jama, Edited by Sven Christian
Dimensions 17.5 x 24.7 cm
Weight 1514 g

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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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