(Trans)Nationalism and "Indigenisation" - Ambivalences in South African Settler Primitivism between the 1920s and 1960s. DE

This work describes different facets of South African settler primitivism and the interactions of its protagonists, who moved between the poles of European modernism and local traditional cultures. Marked by great ambivalences, they oscillated between transnational and national approaches to an art production that appropriated indigenous landscapes, peoples and their visual cultures in order to indigenise white settlers to the South African land. A focus is set on the women artists Irma Stern and Maggie Laubser, who were key to the development of South African modernism.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Hörstmann
• Publisher: arthistoricum.net
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2023
• EAN: 9783985011131
• ISBN: 978-3-9850111-3-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 240 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 720 g
• Illustrations: 45 Farbabb.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous