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Picturing Change: Curating Visual Culture at Post-Apartheid Universities
Brenda Schmahmann
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Description for Picturing Change: Curating Visual Culture at Post-Apartheid Universities
Paperback. Since South Africa's transition to democracy, many universities have acquired new works of art for key spaces on their campuses. The new works convey messages about the advantages of cultural diversity, and many engage critically with histories of racial intolerance and conflict. Num Pages: 256 pages, Full colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; JFC; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 875.
Many universities in South Africa have acquired new works of art for key spaces on their campuses. These works convey messages about the advantages of cultural diversity, but recently acquired sculptures, paintings and tapestries also critically engage with histories of racial intolerance and conflict. A current concern among tertiary South African institutions is the influence of British imperialism or Afrikaner nationalism on aspects of their inherited visual culture. Discussions from within the art world around the curatorship of art, memorials, insignia and regalia has shed light on these outmoded colonial value systems which universities now wish to distance themselves from. ... Read more
Many universities in South Africa have acquired new works of art for key spaces on their campuses. These works convey messages about the advantages of cultural diversity, but recently acquired sculptures, paintings and tapestries also critically engage with histories of racial intolerance and conflict. A current concern among tertiary South African institutions is the influence of British imperialism or Afrikaner nationalism on aspects of their inherited visual culture. Discussions from within the art world around the curatorship of art, memorials, insignia and regalia has shed light on these outmoded colonial value systems which universities now wish to distance themselves from. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868145805
SKU
V9781868145805
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About Brenda Schmahmann
Brenda Schmahmann is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. She was the editor and primary contributor on Material Matters (2000) and also the author of Through the Looking Glass: Representations of Self by South African Women Artists (2004), for which she won the Rhodes University Vice Chancellor’s Book Award.
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