"Visualizing Apartheid Abroad: Gavin Jantjes's Screenprints of the 1970s," Art Journal (Fall/Winter 2017)
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This essay examines the iconic photographs of the Soweto Uprising in South Africa and their deployment in several screenprints and offset lithograph posters made by the artist Gavin Jantjes in 1977 and 1978.
This article was made possible through funding from the Historians of British Art Society in 2016. Click here for a research report published in the HBA's 2018 Newsletter. This research originated in a paper presented at the 2015 CAA Annual Conference in the panel entitled "Afrotropes," chaired by Huey Copeland and Krista Thompson.
This essay examines the iconic photographs of the Soweto Uprising in South Africa and their deployment in several screenprints and offset lithograph posters made by the artist Gavin Jantjes in 1977 and 1978.
This article was made possible through funding from the Historians of British Art Society in 2016. Click here for a research report published in the HBA's 2018 Newsletter. This research originated in a paper presented at the 2015 CAA Annual Conference in the panel entitled "Afrotropes," chaired by Huey Copeland and Krista Thompson.