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Public art in South Africa : bronze warriors and plastic presidents / edited by Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- African expressive cultures.
- 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.
- South Africa--Social conditions--21st century.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Race relations--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Revealing how public visual expressions articulate histories and memories, they explore how such works may serve as a forum in which tensions surrounding race, gender, identity, or nationhood play out.
- 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
- Unsanctioned graffiti interventions in post-apartheid Johannesburg / Matthew Ryan Smith.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-03010-2
- OCLC:
- 987615912
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