Jubilee Dandies: Collecting Beadwork in Tsolo, Eastern Cape 1897–1932

Anitra Nettleton is Chair and Director of the Centre for Creative Arts of Africa at the Wits Art Museum (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). She has researched and published articles, chapters and books on historical and contemporary arts of Africa over three decades. Her present concerns include the relationships between histories and modernity as manifested in South African beadwork and “traditional” sculptural forms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is also researching a project comparing modernism as it was manifested in artists of the Amadlozi group of the 1960s and its afterlife in the 1980s, with the modernity realized by rural artists of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. Anitra.Nettleton@wits.ac.za