SEEN, HEARD AND VALUED, WAM celebrates 40 years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection

403pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2021

Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, 2021.

The exhibition featured over 400 artworks from the Standard Bank African Art Collection.

Contributions include:

"Forty years and what have we got to show for it? Reflections on the interwoven journeys of the Standard Bank African Art Collection and Wits Art Museum" by Julia Charlton

"Diagnosing our differences: Assessing the political significance of the Standard Bank-Wits University support for African Art past, present and future" by John Stremlau

"Dust: Living with imperishability" by Hlonipha Mokoena

"'Artist unrecorded': The problem of identifying the maker in African art collections" by Anitra Nettleton

"Imaginative reconfigurations: Dis/continuities in the work of 20th-century artists from rural KwaZulu-Natal" by Sandra Klopper

"Premonition technology divination" by Sarah Nuttall

"Shaping the future/ reshaping the past" by Nessa Leibhammer.