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1 online resource |
Series |
African expressive cultures |
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African expressive cultures.
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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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
Subject |
Public art -- Social aspects -- South Africa
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Public art -- Political aspects -- South Africa
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Public art -- South Africa -- Public opinion
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Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- South Africa
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Public opinion -- South Africa
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ART -- General.
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ART -- African.
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Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc.
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Public art -- Political aspects
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Public art -- Public opinion
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Public opinion
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
South Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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South Africa -- Race relations -- 21st century
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Subject |
South Africa
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Miller, Kim (Kimberly A.), editor, author.
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Schmahmann, Brenda, 1960- editor, author.
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LC no. |
2017024194 |
ISBN |
9780253030108 |
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0253030102 |
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