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RUBIN, Riva : The Poet Killers

Akademiai Kiado, Tel Aviv, 1969

Very good in the original thin card pictorial wrappers as issued, light wear to extremities. INSCRIBED "To Mannie, Anne & Boys from Riva. Dec '72". Harold Rubin (born 13 May 1932) is a South African-born Israeli visual artist and free jazz clarinettist. Rubin's creative endeavors in South African society during the 1950s and 1960s dissented against the apartheid-era Afrikaner establishment by defying the country's racist social norms. Rubin organized his own jazz group in the 1950s, snuck into black townships, and played alongside black musicians. Rubin's visual artwork was first exhibited in 1956.[1] Among Rubin's contributions to the South African fine arts in this spirit was the 1961 Sharpeville, a series of drawings devoted to the brutality of the Apartheid-era authorities during the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. Rubin's most controversial project on the South African art scene of the 1960s was My Jesus, a provocative rendering of the crucifixion in which Jesus Christ appeared as a nude black figure with the head of a monster.[2][3] The work contained the inscription "I forgive you O Lord, for you know not what you do" - a sardonically reversed "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" - and depicted the naked figure with a slight hint of an erection.[4] The controversial image was put on display alongside other anti- establishment works at a Johannesburg gallery in 1962. The exhibition caused such furor that the government sent the police to shut down the exhibition and referred its artwork for an examination by its censorship board.[5][6] Rubin became the second South African to be charged with blasphemy.[3] Acquitted in court of the alleged blasphemy in March 1963, Rubin protested the repressive political environment by leaving the country for Israel and quickly reestablished himself in Tel Aviv. Rubin was employed as an architect on projects in Israel and abroad and taught at an academy of architecture and design between the 1960s and his retirement in 1986. Illustr.: Harold Rubin

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