Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art: Audacities of Color - Couverture rigide

Berger, LaNitra M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1350187496 ISBN 13 : 9781350187498

Editeur : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020

Synopsis

Through both archives and interviews, this critical art history study explores the racial dimensions of South African modern painter Irma Stern's life and art work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

LaNitra M. Berger is Senior Director of Fellowships and Associate Director of African and African American Studies at George Mason University, USA

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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 Colored (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 fifty years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350187496
• ISBN 13: 9781350187498
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible