art look 70
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Art Look '70 was a brochure produced by the Salisbury Branch of the Union of Jewish Women in 1970. It included African artists from the Tengenenge community and followed on two previous one man exhibitions respectively for Ann Lindsel Steward, Mooni Ezra and a joint exhibition for Leonora Kible and Janine McKenzie. The first exhibition organized by the UJW was a bible exhibition in the National Gallery which included a page from the Guttenberg Bible and the Mooni Ezra show was opened by Frank McEwen, the Director of the National Gallery who described it as a breath of light and joy. Accordingly, an example of an Ezra catalog is included at the end of the file. Several art and other exhibitions followed culminating in 1978 with the show "Dialogue through Art" which is documented in the article included here from the South African Jewish Times. The artists in that photograph include Joseph Muli, Joseph Ndandarika, Nicholas Mukomberanwa, John and Bernard Takawira and almost all of the Workshop School artists. Above all this record attests to the fact that there was significant local patronage and support of modern African art in distinct contrast to what has been written in the literature both academic and non-academic since independence.TRANSCRIPT
