Public art in South Africa : bronze warriors and plastic presidents
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Miller Kimberly A. ; Schmahmann Brenda (1960-....) ;
- Editeurs : Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press ;
- Date d'édition : Copyright 2017
- ISBN : 978-0-253-02959-1, 978-0-253-02992-8
- Sujets : Art public -- Aspect social -- Afrique du Sud, Art public, Art, Afrique du Sud -- Conditions sociales -- 1994-....Afrique du Sud
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxxix, 315 p.), : Ill., couv. ill. en coul., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : African expressive cultures
Notes
Existe aussi en version électronique ; Bibliogr. en fin de contribution. Index
Résumé
La 4e de couv. indique : 'How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? Across South Africa, statues commemorating figures such as Cecil Rhodes have provoked heated protests, while new works commemorating icons of the liberation struggle have also sometimes proved contentious. In this lively volume, Kim Miller, Brenda Schmahmann, and an international group of contributors examine statues and memorials as well as performance, billboards, and other temporal modes of communication, considering the implications of not only the exposure but also erasure of events and icons from the public domain. 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.'