Picturing Change
Curating visual culture at post-apartheid universities
An in-depth look at the evolving ethos of curating and collecting art at South African universities. In Picturing Change, Brenda Schmahmann explores the implications of deploying the visual domain in the service of transformative agendas and unpacks the complexities, contradictions and slippages involved in this process. She shows that although most new commissions have been innovative, some universities have acquired works with potentially traditionalist - even backward-looking - implications. While the motives behind removing inherited imagery may be underpinned by a desire to unsettle white privilege, in some cases such actions can also se…
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- ISBN: 978-1-77614-120-3
- EAN: 9781776141203
- Produktnummer: 27842688
- Verlag: Wharton School Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 120 Illustrations, color
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Brenda Schmahmann
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