Public art in South Africa : bronze warriors and plastic presidents / edited by Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann.

Public art in South Africa : bronze warriors and plastic presidents /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miller, Kim (Kimberly A.) (Author, Editor), Schmahmann, Brenda, 1960- (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Series:African expressive cultures.
Subjects:
Public art > Social aspects > South Africa.
Public art > Political aspects > South Africa.
Public art > South Africa > Public opinion.
Art > Mutilation, defacement, etc. > South Africa.
Public opinion > South Africa.
South Africa > Social conditions > 21st century.
South Africa > Race relations > 21st century.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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