Description: Allison K. Young examines the artistic lineage and oeuvre of the South African artist Gavin Jantjes, a prolific artist known for his portrayals of the global Black struggle for freedom that defy expectations of Black creativity.
Review Quotes: "With Freedom as Form, Allison K. Young has delivered an engaging, deeply nuanced reflection on the practices and migratory impulses of an important contemporary artist. Young's monograph on this South African-born (and for long periods, Europe-based) artist is informative and comprehensive. Young is to be thanked for telling us so much about Jantjes' contributions to art practice, spanning many decades, and its multiple, international contexts."--Eddie Chambers, author of, World is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art
"Through close looking and imaginative analysis, Allison Young sheds new light on Gavin Jantjes' career, providing fresh insights into how conditions of migration, exile, and transnational resistance shapes both the making of art and the writing of art history. Freedom as Form offers a rigorous model of how to historicize the work of a single artist while incorporating--at nearly every turn--serious attention to the collaborative and dialogic dimensions of their practice.'--Antawan I. Byrd, co-editor of, The People Shall Govern! Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Poster, 1979-1985