WENNING deep springs this direct (and official) articulation

this direct (and official) articulation of the need to “brand” South Africa echoed the ways in which an image on a stamp also operated in the construction of a national identity

am part of that disgraceful narrative

3cm | 512 pages | hardcover

political and social currency of mass-media images generated by conflict

In this revelatory book

WENNING deep springs this direct (and official) articulationIt has been said that artists do not reach true greatness until after they are dead. Immortality often walks hand in hand with those who pour out their lives in a fleeting urge to express the beauty they see around them. So it was with Pieter Wenning who came from Holland to the mundane occupation of bookseller's clerk in Pretoria. The urge to paint became an obsession but it was only at the age of 42 that he was able to devote all his time to art.