TY - GEN T1 - Irma Stern and the racial paradox of South African modern art : audacities of color T2 - Required reading range ; A1 - Berger, LaNitra M. LA - English PP - London ; New York PB - Bloomsbury Visual Arts YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1183399260 AB - "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"-- OP - 176 CN - ND1096.S8 B46 2020 SN - 9781350187511 SN - 1350187518 SN - 9781350187504 SN - 135018750X SN - 9781350187528 SN - 1350187526 SN - 9781350187498 KW - Stern, Irma, : 1894-1966 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Stern, Irma, : 1894-1966 KW - Painting, South African : 20th century. KW - Modernism (Art) : South Africa. KW - Peinture sud-africaine : 20e siècle. KW - Modernisme (Art) : Afrique du Sud. KW - Individual artists, art monographs. KW - Theory of art. KW - Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus. KW - Art : African. KW - Art : Individual Artists : Monographs. KW - Art : Subjects & Themes : Portraits. KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Painting, South African KW - South Africa KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -