There are many vexed questions concerning African art on the continent and in South Africa which find expression in problematic definitions and terms which obscure rather than illuminate. These paradigmatic difficulties create awkward processes in art history, curricula, critical understanding, museum collections and understandings of art and artistry . Ernest Mancoba’s intellect and aesthetic cuts through this quagmire. His vision, sourced in pluri-versal epistemologies, most significantly those sourced in indigenous visual heritage, integrates multiple influences in brilliant economical expressions of a possible future for humanity. Amongst South African artists he is not alone, for the rich sources of indigenous visual heritage derived from within the system of African art have not (yet) been extinguished and are a major, if critically hardly acknowledged, factor in the work of many South African contemporary artists.
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Bridget Thompson | Ernest Mancoba’s African rooted, universal vision of humanity
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