Visual Redress in Africa from Indigenous and New Materialist Perspectives (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Costandius, Elmarie; de Villiers, Gera

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs, and buildings were removed or changed after countries' independence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000890969
• Artikelnr.: 67845473

Autorenporträt

Elmarie Costandius is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Gera de Villiers is Postdoctoral Fellow for Visual Redress at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Originating, (re)creating and (re)futuring visual redress
Part I: Theoretical perspectives on visual redress 1. Engaging in
Indigenous anti-colonial knowledge production 2. Feminist new materialism
and visual redress Part II: Visual Redress in Africa 3. "Africanising" a
modern art history curriculum in Nigerian universities: Development and
constraints 4. Reflecting on post-apartheid heritage redress: From
unsettled pasts to unsettled presents and uncertain futures 5. Change and
stasis in the semiotic landscape of a school for young offenders in
Eswatini: Towards a decolonial space 6. Visual redress at Stellenbosch
University, South Africa 7. Whatever happened to Cecil?: Monuments
commemorating Rhodes before and after #RhodesMustFall 8. Postcolonial
monuments in Bamako, Mali: Encoding heritage, history and modernity 9.
Landscapes of memory: Ake Centenary Hall and the making of Egba identity,
1934-1999 10. The art of (de)colonisation: Memorials, buildings and public
space in Maputo around independence. 11.The Faidherbe statue and memory
making in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, 1887-2020 12. The removal of colonial
names, symbols and monuments in Uganda 13. From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe:
Renaming of places and streets in Zimbabwe Part III: Visual redress abroad
14. From the monument to the museum: Controversy and diversity in dealing
with toxic monuments in Germany 15. Reclaiming the Monument: Processes
towards dismantling symbols of oppression in Richmond, Virginia 16.
Dreaming of destruction: From direct action to speculative iconoclasm in
Aboriginal protest, Australia, 1970-2021 Postscript