South Africa's Bill of Rights

CCAC #: 0464
Artwork title: South Africa's Bill of Rights
Artist(s): Norman Kaplan
Year made: 1996
Artwork type: Paper
Medium: Linocut
Dimensions (mm): 560 x 480
Framed dimensions (in mm): 720 x 524 x 40
Edition: South africa's Bill of Rights A/P 1996
Artwork series: Images of Human Rights print portfolio
Source: Donated by the Artists for Human Rights Trust
Installation type: Movable artwork
Location area: On a travelling exhibition
Signage:

Following an open national competition, this artwork became the cover of the Images of Human Rights print portfolio, issued by the Artists for Human Rights Trust in 1996. The portfolio consists of 27 prints, each depicting a clause of South Africa’s new Bill of Rights, created by artists representative of the nine new provinces of the country.

The images are diverse in their creative approaches, with the artists often drawing on their personal experiences to interpret the individual clauses of the new Bill of Rights. Together they have produced a telling, moving record of the optimism and hope that many South Africans expressed about the new era of fundamental rights in South Africa.

Themes: Human Rights

CCAC 437594

Photographer: Ben Law-Viljoen
Photo copyright: CCT

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