The people shall govern! : MEDU Art Ensemble and the anti-apartheid poster 1979-1985 /

Formed in the late 1970s, Medu Art Ensemble forcefully articulated a call to end the apartheid system's racial segregation and violent injustice through posters that combined revolutionary imagery with bold slogans. Advocating for decolonization and majority (nonwhite) rule in South Africa and...

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Other Authors:	Byrd, Antawan I. (Editor, Contributor), Mings, Felicia, 1985- (Editor, Contributor), Serote, Mongane Wally, 1944- (Contributor), Gule, Khwezi (Contributor), Jamal, Ashraf (Contributor), Siebrits, Warren (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana) > Exhibitions. MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana) Posters > Africa > Exhibitions. Anti-apartheid movements > Exhibitions. Anti-apartheid movements. Posters. Africa. Exhibition catalogs.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Antawan I. Byrd and Felicia Mings
On the origins of MEDU Art Ensemble / Mongane Wally Serote
MEDU Art Ensemble's operative and aesthetic montage / Antawan I. Byrd
Graphics in exile : Gaborone as a site of international activism / Felicia Mings
Weaponizing art : then and now / Khwezi Gule
Common sympathies : six asides about resistance art / Ashraf Jamal
Collecting the posters of MEDU Art Ensemble / Warren Siebrits
Work by MEDU Art Ensemble
Members of MEDU Art Ensemble
Contributors
Index.