Ndebele: Women and Art

Synopsis: Shows the work of a number of Ndebele women artists in South Africa who are famous for their skills at decorating houses. The traditional designs are geometic shapes like triangles and zig-zags, often executed in black-and-white clay pigments on a mud wall, but recently an amazing extension of the women’s repertoire of shapes and motifs has come to include many architectural elements typical of contemporary Western life and house design. Steps and stairs and circled windows, even electric light bulbs and the patterns in the centrepiece of a razor blade, provide the starting points for graphic desig of great brilliance and sophistication.
Series: Issues in Women’s Studies, Course U207
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1992
Availability: Off-air recording licence
Sale; 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Art; Women’s studies
Keywords: graphic design; Ndebele; South Africa; women artists

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