Irma Stern and the racial paradox of South African modern art : audacities of color / LaNitra M. Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, LaNitra M., author.

Series:

Required reading range ; v. 25.

[Required Reading Range] ; volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stern, Irma, 1894-1966.

Painting, South African--20th century.

Painting, South African.

Modernism (Art)--South Africa.

Modernism (Art).

Stern, Irma, 1894-1966--Criticism and interpretation.

Stern, Irma.

Criticism and interpretation.

South Africa.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 175 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

"South African artist Irma Stern (1894-1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures-Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of black, Jewish, and coloured (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than 50 years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Irma Stern in a Global Context: Expressionist Influences

2. Cape Town Blues: Painting South Africa

3. Congo and Zanzibar

4. Modernism under Apartheid: Art and Social Context

5. If Rhodes Must Fall, Must Stern Fall? Audacities of Color in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Berger, LaNitra M. Irma Stern and the racial paradox of South African modern art

ISBN:

9781350187498

1350187496

OCLC:

1155559374

Publisher Number:

99987948928