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Visual Century is a four-volume publication that reappraises South African visual art of the twentieth century from a post-apartheid perspective. Wide-ranging and in-depth essays by more than thirty writers make it an indispensable resource for curators, historians, students, and artists, while the large number of full-color photographs—approximately eighty per volume—adds appeal to the volumes' for all art lovers with an interest in South African art.
Troubling Images explores how art and visual culture helped to secure hegemonic claims to the nation-state via the construction of a unified Afrikaner imaginary.
'Visual century' is a four-volume publication that reappraises South African visual art of the twentieth century from a post-apartheid perspective. Wide-ranging and in-depth essays by more than thirty writers make it an indispensable resource for curators, historians, students, and artists, while the large number of full-color photographs - approximately eighty per volume - adds appeal to the volumes for all art lovers with an interest in South African art.
'Visual century' is a four-volume publication that reappraises South African visual art of the twentieth century from a post-apartheid perspective. Wide-ranging and in-depth essays by more than thirty writers make it an indispensable resource for curators, historians, students, and artists, while the large number of full-color photographs - approximately eighty per volume - adds appeal to the volumes for all art lovers with an interest in South African art.
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Cultural Studies has evolved and continues to evolve primarily along regional lines. However uncomfortable this might be, the genie of British cultural studies cannot be returned to the bottle of history. Thus, national versions of cultural studies have arisen in a few African countries. This book engages two critical and seemingly contradictory tasks: i) to contribute to the development of cultural studies from the perspectives of African experiences and indigenous frames of reference; and ii) to examine these in terms of transnational trajectories of the field in ways that do not reduce them to one or other context. Much cultural studies remains concerned with Texts, often disconnected fro...