Landscapes Between Then and Now: Recent Histories in Southern African Photography, Performance and Video Art

ISBN-13: 9781350024007 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 282 str.

Nicola Brandt

Opis

In Landscapes Between Then and Now, Nicola Brandt examines the increasingly compelling and diverse cross-disciplinary work of photographers and artists made during the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid and into the contemporary era.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Beyond Bearing Witness 2. Santu Mofokeng’s Appropriated Landscapes 3. Picturing Stillness, Aura and Ambivalence 4. Namibia’s War of Independence: Power, Knowledge and Amnesia 5. Memorial Landscapes: Between Documentary Realism and the Imaginary 6. Histories and Landscapes Embodied7. Imagined Geographies and New Practices of Self Epilogue

O autorze

Nicola Brandt is an artist and lecturer on histories of photography and contemporary art. She was a visiting professor at the Institute of African Studies and Iwalewahaus (The University of Bayreuth, Germany) in 2019. Nicola has presented her work at The National Art Gallery of Namibia, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Yale University and the Würth Museum in Germany.