Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
South African journal of cultural and art history
Author: South African journal of culture and art history
Author: South African Journal of Cultural History
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : af
Pages : 498
Book Description
Art and Culture in a Changing South Africa
Author: Johannes Jacobus DegenaarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Memory & Oblivion
Author: A.W. ReininkPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401140065
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
Memory is a subject that recently has attracted many scholars and readers not only in the general historical sciences, but also in the special field of art history. However, in this book, in which more than 130 papers given at the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam) 1996 have been compiled, Memory is also juxtaposed to its counterpart, Oblivion, thus generating extra excitement in the exchange of ideas. The papers are presented in eleven sections, each of which is devoted to a different aspect of memory and oblivion, ranging from purely material aspects of preservation, to social phenomena with regard to art collecting, from the memory of the art historian to workshop practices, from art in antiquity, to the newest media, from Buddhist iconography to the Berlin Wall. The book addresses readers in the field of history, history of art and psychology.
South African Journal of Art History
Author: Art Historical Work Group of South AfricaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Art and Revolution
Author: Diana WyliePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813927640
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Diana Wylie is Professor of History at Boston University. She is the author of A Little God: The Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Chiefdom and Starving on a Full Stomach: The Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (Virginia), which won the Melville J. Herskovits Award.
History After Apartheid
Author: Annie E. CoombesPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822330721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
DIVHow should post-apartheid South Africa present its history - in museums, monuments, and parks./div
A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery
Author: Anna TietzePublisher: Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
ISBN: 1775822168
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In South Africa, with its highly contested and changing understandings of national identity, its National Gallery is no less a contested space. A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery considers questions of artistic and cultural identity, from the late 19th century to the present day. It explores how the gallery has understood its function and its public, as a ‘national’ gallery from 1930 and, before that, the chief gallery of the Cape Colony. This question is investigated through a study of the gallery’s administration, collection and exhibition practices over the last 150 years. What is understood by and expected of a national gallery varies considerably worldwide. Should it regard itself as part of a broad international cultural discourse, or should it be representative of a specifically national – or even regional – identity? The gallery is a microcosm of the greater debate: how the South African nation relates to the larger world and how, if at all, it understands the concept of a shared culture. In the last 20 years, Museum Studies have become a major part of the field of Cultural Studies. There is a vast literature on what might be called the ‘history’ museum, but far less on the art museum or gallery. To date, there has been no large-scale historical inquiry into the Iziko SANG, the country’s national gallery. The absence of such a history marks a serious gap in the literature, which this study aims to fill.
Print Culture in Southern Africa
Author: Caroline DavisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000426378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Print Culture in Southern Africa is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th century to the present day. The book is organised around three closely related themes. Firstly, it presents original research into the formation of reading publics and the impact of reading cultures, by uncovering obscure but important reading communities and circuits of book distribution and reception. A second theme is the relationship between print and politics, with a particular focus on the networks of power: how control over the production and circulation of printed books has shaped literary and cultural development. The third theme is transnational print culture, and how the control exercised by publishers in Europe and America has shaped literature and society in southern Africa. Drawing together interdisciplinary research and diverse methodologies, the collection encompasses a range of perspectives, including literary studies, anthropology, publishing studies, the history of the book and art history, and many of the chapters are based on previously unexamined archives and collections. The volume contributes to current debates and opens up new and exciting ways of furthering the study of postcolonial literature and African book history. The chapters included in this book were originally published in the Journal of Southern African Studies.
