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Public art in South Africa : bronze warriors and plastic presidents / edited by Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann.

Fine Arts Library N8846.S6 P83 2017
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Miller, Kim (Kimberly A.), editor, author.
Schmahmann, Brenda, 1960- editor, author.
Series:
African expressive cultures
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Public art--Social aspects--South Africa.
Public art.
Public art--Political aspects--South Africa.
Public art--South Africa--Public opinion.
Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc--South Africa.
Art.
Public opinion--South Africa.
Public opinion.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Public art--Political aspects.
Social aspects.
South Africa.
South Africa--Social conditions--21st century.
South Africa--Race relations--21st century.
Physical Description:
xxxix, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Other Title:
Bronze warriors and plastic presidents
Place of Publication:
Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Contents:
Introduction: Engaging with public art in South Africa, 1999-2015 / Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann
Part 1: Negotiating difficult histories
A Janus-like juncture: reconciling past and present at the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park / Elizabeth Rankin
A thinking stone and some pink presidents: negotiating Afrikaner nationalist monuments at the University of the Free State / Brenda Schmahmann
The mirror and the square-old ideological conflicts in motion: Church Square slavery memorial / Gavin Younge
Part 2: Defining and redefining heroes
Public art as political crucible: Andries Botha's Shaka and contested symbols of Zulu masculinity and culture in KwaZulu-Natal / Liese van der Watt
Mandela's walk and Biko's ghosts: public art and the politics of memory in Port Elizabeth's city center / Naomi Roux
Commemorating Solomon Mahlangu: the making and unmaking of a "struggle" icon / Gary Baines
Part 3: Erasures and ruins
The pain of memory and the violence of erasure: real and figural displays of female authority in the public sphere / Kim Miller
Transgressive touch: ruination, public feeling and the Sunday Times Heritage Project / Duane Jethro
Part 4: Ephemeral projects
Public art, troubling tropes: an unsettling intervention in Cape Town / Shannen Hill
Unsettling ambivalences and ambiguities in Mary Sibande's Long Live the Dead Queen public art project / Leora Farber
Unsanctioned: the inner-city interventions of Julie Lovelace / Karen von Veh
Rage against the state: political funerals and queer visual activism in post-apartheid South Africa / Kylie Thomas
Telltale signs: unsanctioned graffiti interventions in post-apartheid Johannesburg / Matthew Ryan Smith.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780253029928
0253029929
9780253029591
0253029597
OCLC:
987437382

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