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Title

Gerard Sekoto : "I am an African" : a biography / by N. Chabani Manganyi ; foreword by Es'kia Mphahlele.

Author

Manganyi, N. C.

Publication

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Sekoto, Gerard, 1913-1993.

Description

xi, 244 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Gerard Sekoto is a major South African painter, and one of this country's earliest modernists and social realists. He was at the height of his creative powers when he left for Paris in 1947, where he stayed until his death in 1993. During these often difficult years his talent, dedication, belief in the equality of all people and, most of all, his identity as an African sustained him." "Chabani Manganyi's biography is informed by the discovery, after Sekoto's death, of a 'suitcase of treasures', which contained previously unknown musical compositions, letters and a large quantity of notes, writings and private documents. It ends with a statement by Gerard Sekoto on art and the responsibility of artists, which he presented in Rome in 1959."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

I am an African

Subject

• Sekoto, Gerard, 1913-1993
• Painters > South Africa > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1868144003

LCCN

^^2005352624

OCLC

• 60504570
• SCSB-9990943

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library