Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke

Listening to Distant Thunder celebrates the life and works of Peter Clarke (1929–2014), one of South Africa’s foremost artists.
Rankin, Elizabeth; Hobbs, Philippa
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Title: Listening to Distant Thunder
Subtitle: The Art of Peter Clarke
Authors: Elizabeth Rankin; Philippa Hobbs
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Fernwood Press
Cape Town, South Africa 2014
ISBN 9781775841616 / ISBN 978-1-77584-161-6
Hardcover with dustjacket, 28 x 28 cm, 224 pages, 200 photographs

Description:

Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke recounts an artist's life in the context of the social history of South Africa from the 1940s. It begins with Peter Clarke's boyhood seascapes painted at the Cape Peninsula and his studies of the people of Simon's Town, where he grew up. From the 1960s his images reflect the social disruption of the Cape Flats, and the trauma of his community's forced removal from Simon's Town to the bleak apartheid township of Ocean View. The book explores his innovative printmaking and the stimulus of his brief periods at Michaelis School of Art and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the early 1960s, as well as the ambitious paintings he began making during further sojourns abroad in America, Norway and France in the 1970s. In later works he experimented with a more painterly abstract style, layered with collage and text, which interrogate history, apartheid, dispossession and exile. Yet Clarke's images avoid bitterness, and his work is a perceptive scrutiny and celebration of life in all its aspects, from the challenges of the journey to freedom to the ordinary things that make up our ' existence. His works were sometimes created as a response to events, sometimes as a respite from them, and sometimes, as he often said, for 'no reason other than the sheer delight of making them!' But even when his works appear unconnected to a social imperative, the licence to record his visual world was an assertion of self and an affirmation of the human spirit.

Content: Listening to Distant Thunder. The Art of Peter Clarke

PREFACE
Upon Reflection: Peter Clarke
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgements
Twenty Steps, Simon's Town 1929-45
Looking from my Window 1945-56
The Bend in the Road 1956-60
Coming and Going 1960-1 963
Anxiety 1963-1970
The Wake 1970-1975
Haunted Landscape 1975-79
Mine is the Silent Face 1979-84
Ghetto Fence 1985-99
Open your Eyes to New Horizons 2000-2014
REFERENCES
Personal Interviews and Correspondence
Selected Writings by Peter Clarke
Bibliography
INDEX

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