Public art in South Africa : bronze warriors and plastic presidents /
Public art in South Africa : bronze warriors and plastic presidents /
edited by Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann.
- 1 online resource.
- African expressive cultures .
- African expressive cultures. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Engaging with public art in South Africa, 1999-2015 / A Janus-like juncture: reconciling past and present at the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park / A thinking stone and some pink presidents: negotiating Afrikaner nationalist monuments at the University of the Free State / The mirror and the square-old ideological conflicts in motion: Church Square slavery memorial / Public art as political crucible: Andries Botha's Shaka and contested symbols of Zulu masculinity and culture in KwaZulu-Natal / Mandela's walk and Biko's ghosts: public art and the politics of memory in Port Elizabeth's city center / Commemorating Solomon Mahlangu: the making and unmaking of a "struggle" icon / The pain of memory and the violence of erasure: real and figural displays of female authority in the public sphere / Transgressive touch: ruination, public feeling and the Sunday Times Heritage Project / Public art, troubling tropes: an unsettling intervention in Cape Town / Unsettling ambivalences and ambiguities in Mary Sibande's Long Live the Dead Queen public art project / Unsanctioned: the inner-city interventions of Julie Lovelace / Rage against the state: political funerals and queer visual activism in post-apartheid South Africa / Unsanctioned graffiti interventions in post-apartheid Johannesburg / Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann -- Elizabeth Rankin -- Brenda Schmahmann -- Gavin Younge -- Liese van der Watt -- Naomi Roux -- Gary Baines -- Kim Miller -- Duane Jethro -- Shannen Hill -- Leora Farber -- Karen von Veh -- Kylie Thomas -- Matthew Ryan Smith. Part 1: Negotiating difficult histories -- Part 2: Defining and redefining heroes -- Part 3: Erasures and ruins -- Part 4: Ephemeral projects --
9780253030108 (e-book) 0253030102
22573/ctt1zzhwcf JSTOR
2017024194
2000-2099
Public art--Social aspects--South Africa.
Public art--Political aspects--South Africa.
Public art--Public opinion.--South Africa
Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc.--South Africa.
Public opinion--South Africa.
Art--Mutilation--Afrique du Sud.
Opinion publique--Afrique du Sud.
ART--General.
ART--African.
Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Public art--Political aspects.
Public art--Public opinion.
Public opinion.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
South Africa--Social conditions--21st century.
South Africa--Race relations--21st century.
Afrique du Sud--Conditions sociales--21e siècle.
Afrique du Sud--Relations raciales--21e siècle.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
N8846.S6
701.03096809051
(680)73.045 PUB
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Engaging with public art in South Africa, 1999-2015 / A Janus-like juncture: reconciling past and present at the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park / A thinking stone and some pink presidents: negotiating Afrikaner nationalist monuments at the University of the Free State / The mirror and the square-old ideological conflicts in motion: Church Square slavery memorial / Public art as political crucible: Andries Botha's Shaka and contested symbols of Zulu masculinity and culture in KwaZulu-Natal / Mandela's walk and Biko's ghosts: public art and the politics of memory in Port Elizabeth's city center / Commemorating Solomon Mahlangu: the making and unmaking of a "struggle" icon / The pain of memory and the violence of erasure: real and figural displays of female authority in the public sphere / Transgressive touch: ruination, public feeling and the Sunday Times Heritage Project / Public art, troubling tropes: an unsettling intervention in Cape Town / Unsettling ambivalences and ambiguities in Mary Sibande's Long Live the Dead Queen public art project / Unsanctioned: the inner-city interventions of Julie Lovelace / Rage against the state: political funerals and queer visual activism in post-apartheid South Africa / Unsanctioned graffiti interventions in post-apartheid Johannesburg / Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann -- Elizabeth Rankin -- Brenda Schmahmann -- Gavin Younge -- Liese van der Watt -- Naomi Roux -- Gary Baines -- Kim Miller -- Duane Jethro -- Shannen Hill -- Leora Farber -- Karen von Veh -- Kylie Thomas -- Matthew Ryan Smith. Part 1: Negotiating difficult histories -- Part 2: Defining and redefining heroes -- Part 3: Erasures and ruins -- Part 4: Ephemeral projects --
9780253030108 (e-book) 0253030102
22573/ctt1zzhwcf JSTOR
2017024194
2000-2099
Public art--Social aspects--South Africa.
Public art--Political aspects--South Africa.
Public art--Public opinion.--South Africa
Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc.--South Africa.
Public opinion--South Africa.
Art--Mutilation--Afrique du Sud.
Opinion publique--Afrique du Sud.
ART--General.
ART--African.
Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Public art--Political aspects.
Public art--Public opinion.
Public opinion.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
South Africa--Social conditions--21st century.
South Africa--Race relations--21st century.
Afrique du Sud--Conditions sociales--21e siècle.
Afrique du Sud--Relations raciales--21e siècle.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
N8846.S6
701.03096809051
(680)73.045 PUB