There are many reasons to recommend John Peffer’s Art and the End of Apartheid. It makes significant headway toward recording histories and interpreting art of the 1970s and 1980s that were somewhat overlooked post-1994 when South Africa held its first democratic election and art enthusiasts rushed in. (There is some difficulty assigning a date to apartheid’s “end,” but Peffer chooses 1994 for this reason. He “begins” in 1976, when a peaceful march by Soweto students...