Art by Apartheid-Era Black Artists Comes Home
In South Africa, the Return of the Repressed: Art by Apartheid-Era Black Artists Comes Home - New York Times 08-05-06
By Michael Wines
PRETORIA, South Africa €” In 1975 a white Australian diplomat named Diane Johnstone invited Michael Maapola, a black South African artist, to her apartment here to show his drawings to her guests. Within days Ms. Johnstone was evicted and her apartment ransacked. But what happened to Mr. Maapola, whose drawings of police clubbings and prison scenes recorded the ugliness of apartheid at its peak, was worse.
Image: A Fikile Magadledla painting (detail).In South Africa, the Return of the Repressed: Art by Apartheid-Era Black Artists Comes Home - New York Times 08-05-06
By Michael Wines
PRETORIA, South Africa €” In 1975 a white Australian diplomat named Diane Johnstone invited Michael Maapola, a black South African artist, to her apartment here to show his drawings to her guests. Within days Ms. Johnstone was evicted and her apartment ransacked. But what happened to Mr. Maapola, whose drawings of police clubbings and prison scenes recorded the ugliness of apartheid at its peak, was worse.
Image: A Fikile Magadledla painting (detail).