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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, South African--20th century.

Painting, South African.

Modernism (Art)--South Africa.

Modernism (Art).

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

Stern, Irma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [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:

Introduction

Irma Stern in a Global Context: Expressionist Influence

Cape Town Blues: Painting South Africa

Congo and Zanzibar

Modernism Under Apartheid: Art and Social Context

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 3, 2023)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

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

ISBN:

9781350187504

9781350187511

1350187518