South African Art in Benezit

Dr. Jillian Carman, Guest Editor

2015 saw improved and extended coverage of South African artists. Existing articles on South African artists were revised and new articles were added to include important figures and increase parity between white and black artists. 

Over twenty existing entries were selected to be revised and updated, among them Jane Alexander, Willie Bester, Willem Boshoff, Candice Breitz, Kendell Geers, William Kentridge, Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern and Anton van Wouw. Nearly seventy new artists were added, including the Baboon Master (a 19th-century ‘traditional’ wood-carver), Ernest Cole, Dumile Feni, David Goldblatt, Lippy Lipschitz, Peter Magubane, Mapula Embroidery Project, Santu Mofokeng, Zanele Muholi, the Nala family of potters, Jo Ractliffe, Berni Searle, Peter Wenning, Sue Williamson and many more.

It was an enormous challenge to choose a representative sample from 1800 to 2014, and with this sample to give some idea of the new art history developing in South Africa, where “traditional” or indigenous art is considered as much a part of the mainstream as Western-type art. Nearly 30 authors, specialists in their fields, produced over 90 new and revised entries.
2015

Contributors:
Alexander Duffey
Alison Kearney
Anitra Nettleton
Brenda Schmahmann
Clive Kellner
Elizabeth Rankin
Federico Freschi
Fee Halsted
Gabeba Baderoon
Jillian Carman
Julia Charlton
Juliette Leeb-du Toit
Karen von Veh
Lesley Spiro Cohen
Liese van der Watt
Liz Delmont
Marilyn Martin
Mgcineni Sobopha
Michael Godby
Natalie Knight
Nessa Leibhammer
Nontobeko Ntombela
Pamela Allara
Philippa Hobbs
Robyn Sassen
Sean O'Toole
Warren Siebrits
Wilhelm van Rensburg

 

NEW:
ADAMS, Albert
BABOON MASTER
BAINES, Thomas
BATTISS, Walter
BERG, Clive van den
BERMAN, Kim
BHENGU, Gerard
BOSHOFF, Willem
BOTHA, Wim
BOWLER, Thomas William
CALDECOTT, Harry Stratford (Strat)
CLARKE, Peter Edward
COHEN, Steven
COLE, Ernest
DUGGAN-CRONIN, Alfred Martin
EVERARD GROUP
FENI, Dumile
GOLDBLATT, David
HLOBO, Nicholas
HLUNGWANI, Jackson
HODGINS, Robert Griffiths
HUGO, Pieter
I'ONS, Frederick Timpson
KEISKAMMA ART PROJECT
KIBEL, Wolf
KOLOANE, David Nthubu
KOTTLER, Moses
KUMALO, Sidney Alex
LARRABEE, Constance Stuart
LEGAE, Ezrom Kgobonyane Sebata
LIPSHITZ, Lippy
MAGUBANE, Peter Zwelibanzi
MAKHUBELE FAMILY
MANCOBA, Ernest Methuen
MAPULA EMBROIDERY PROJECT
MAQHUBELA, Louis Khehla
MATHIBE, Rebecca
MAUTLOA, Kagiso Patrick
MENDEL, Gideon
MGUDLANDLU, Gladys
MNYELE, Thamsanqa (Thami)
MOFOKENG, Santu
MOHL, John Koenakeefe
MUAFANGEJO, John Ndevasia
MUHOLI, Zanele
MURRAY, Brett
NALA FAMILY
NDEBELE, Allina
NDWANDWE, Reuben
NEL, Karel
NTSHALINTSHALI, Bonakele (Bonnie)
OLTMAN, Walter
PEMBA, George Milwa Mnyaluza
PIERNEEF, Jacob Hendrik (J. H.)
PRELLER, Alexis
RACTLIFFE, Jo
ROSE, Tracey
SCHADEBERG, Jürgen
SEARLE, Berni
SEBIDI, Mmakgabo Helen
SHILAKOE, Cyprian Mpho
SIHLALI, Durant Basi
SIOPIS, Penny
SKOTNES, Cecil
STAINBANK, Mary Agnes
SUBOTZKY, Mikhael
SUMNER, Maud Eyston
UNOBADULA
VILLA, Edoardo
WEINBERG, Paul
WENNING, Pieter Willem Frederik

 

REVISED:
ALEXANDER, Jane
BAUKNECHT, Philipp
BECKMANN, Max
BESTER, Willie
BREITZ, Candice
CAMPENDONK, Heinrich
COETZEE, Christo
ERASMUS, Nel
FUCHS, Ernst
GEERS, Kendell
GÖTZ, Karl Otto
GROSZ, Georg
HARTUNG, Hans Heinrich Ernst
HOFER, Karl or Carl
KENTRIDGE, William Joseph
KLINGER, Max
LAUBSER, Maggie, real forename Maria Magdalena
LIEBERMANN, Max
MABASA, Noria
MKHIZE, Fanozi Jo
MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula
NEBEL, Otto Wilhelm Ernst
NOLDE, Emil
OERDER, Frans David
RHODE, Robin
RICHTER, Hans
SCHLEMMER, Oskar
SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF, Karl
SCHÖNFELDT, Joachim Paulus
SCHULTZE, Bernhard
SCHUMACHER, Emil
SEAGE, Lucas
SEGOGELA, Johannes Mashego
SEKOTO, Gerard
STERN, Irma
THOMA, Hans
VICTOR, Diane
WAFER, Jeremy
WILLIAMSON, Sue
WINTER, Fritz
WOLFE, Edward
WOUW, Antoon van
WUNDERLICH, Paul