(Trans)Nationalism and "indigenisation" : ambivalences in South African settler primitivism between the 1920s and 1960s / Lisa Hörstmann

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Horstmann, Lisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primitivism in art--South Africa.

Primitivism in art.

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

x, 276 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Transnationalism and indigenisation

Nationalism and indigenisation

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg, Germany : Arthistoricum.net, Heidelberg University Library, 2023.

Summary:

"This work describes different facets of South African settler primitivism and the interactions of its protagonists, who moved between the poles of European modernism and local traditional cultures. Marked by great ambivalences, they oscillated between transnational and national approaches to an art production that appropriated indigenous landscapes, peoples and their visual cultures in order to indigenise white settlers to the South African land. A focus is set on the women artists Irma Stern and Maggie Laubser, who were key to the development of South African modernism."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Settler primitivism in South Africa

Reception of settler primitivism in South Africa

South African artists and the image of the Neue Frau

Excursus: networks.

Notes:

Thesis (PhD) -- Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-265).

ISBN:

9783985011131

3985011133

OCLC:

1395943574