Irma Stern and the racial paradox of South African modern art : audacities of color /
"South African artist Irma Stern (1894-1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures-Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this b...
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| フォーマット: | Licensed eBooks |
| 言語: | 英語 |
| 出版事項: |
London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
2020.
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| シリーズ: | Required reading range ;
v. 25. |
| オンライン･アクセス: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2667457 |
| 要約: | "South African artist Irma Stern (1894-1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures-Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of black, Jewish, and coloured (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than 50 years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history"-- |
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| 物理的記述: | 1 online resource (xviii, 176 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| 書誌: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350187511 1350187518 9781350187504 135018750X 9781350187528 1350187526 9781350187498 |