Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
The Janus Suite
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-leverett-1499" aria-label="More by David Leverett" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">David Leverett</a>
Song Africa
Presented by the artist 1982
abstraction
adults
Africa
architecture
black
colonialism
colour
countries and continents
ecology
emotions, concepts and ideas
ethnicity
formal qualities
gestural
group
groups
hill
industrial
inscriptions
landscape
Leverett, David
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
man
mine
non-representational
objects
people
photographic
places
postcard
printed text
reading, writing, printed matter
rocky
social comment
society
symbols and personifications
woman
paper print screenprint
Song for Africa
image: 705 × 1047 mm
Presented by the artist 1982
<p><b>P02555</b> [from] THE JANUS SUITE 1977–9 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leverett-lost-messages-p02553" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02553</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leverett-two-faces-of-a-place-p02556" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02556</span></a>;<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leverett-historical-utopias-revisited-p02465" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02465</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leverett-past-times-p02467" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02467</span></a>;complete]
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<br/>Each inscribed ‘David Leverett 78’bottom right, two inscribed ‘1/16’ and two inscribed ‘1/15’
<br/>Four screenprints from a set of seven, printed and published by the artist, in range 23×35–28×41 3/8 (79.5×82–71.2× 105)
<br/>Presented by the artist 1982
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<br/>The first three of the seven <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> which comprise ‘The Janus Suite’ are concerned with the inward-looking aspect of consciousness and the internalisation of experience (see <span>P02465</span>-<span>P02467</span>). The second half of the set (completed in 1979) contains the four prints listed here, and deals with the relationship between the inner self and outward reality. The texts used in the suite are the artist's own poems, written between 1972 and 1978.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction adults Africa architecture black colonialism colour countries and continents ecology emotions, concepts and ideas ethnicity formal qualities gestural group groups hill industrial inscriptions landscape Leverett, David literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) man mine non-representational objects people photographic places postcard printed text reading, writing, printed matter rocky social comment society symbols and personifications woman