In South Africa, with its highly contested and changing understandings of national identity, its National Gallery is no less a contested space. A History of the

This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.

A fitting way of reflecting on the changes of the last decade and assessing the extent to which transformation has had an impact on South Africa

Picasso and Africa illustrates how African art as well as African culture influenced Picasso in his art.