Battleground, Charles Bell's drawings of the War of the Axe, 1846

Published to accompany the exhibition, The National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, 2015. Includes the essay, The War of the Axe, 1846-1847 by Jeff Peires, and notes on historical weapons by Rod Hooper-Box.For this exhibition Charles Bell's sixty drawings of the War of the Axe are accompanied by extracts from contemporary newspapers on the war, panels of nineteenth-century race theory and texts that explain the stereotypes devised by settlers. Also includes work by Keith Dietrich, Christine Dixie, Stephen Inggs, Cedric Nunn, Hentie van der Merwe, Athi-Patra Ruga, Vusi Khumalo, and Penny Siopis.

Paperback. English. The Iziko Michaelis Collection. 2015.