Author: Johannesburg Art Gallery
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Category : Lace and lace making
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Aurelia Loveman
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Languages : it
Pages : 19

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Category : Lace and lace making
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Author: Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery (Syracuse University)
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Category : Lace and lace making
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Marion Arnold
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351574116
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 415

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The essays collected here investigate art made by women in South Africa between 1910, the year of Union, and 1994, the year of the first democratic election. During this period, complex political circumstances and the impact of modernism in South Africa affected the production of images and objects. The essays explore the ways in which the socio-political circumstances associated with twentieth-century modernity had a paradoxical impact on women. If some were empowered, others were disadvantaged: while some were able to further their social and cultural development and expression, the advancement of others was impeded. The contributors study the lives and achievements of women - named and un-named, black and white, and from different cultural groups and social contexts - and consider objects and images that are historically associated with both 'art' and 'craft'. In all the essays, gender theory is related to South African circumstances. The volume explores gender theory in relation to twentieth-century visual culture and discusses economic conditions and regional geographies as well as notions of identity. It investigates the influence of educational and cultural institutions, the role of theory on art practice, debates about material culture, the power of nationalist ideologies and the role of feminist theories in a changing country. A wide range of visual images and objects provide the touchstone for debate and analysis - paintings, sculptures, photography, baskets, tapestries, embroideries and ceramics - so that the book is richly visual and celebrates the diversity of South African art made by women.

Author: Cecil Higgins Art Gallery
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Category : Lace and lace making
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Michael Stevenson
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: Anna Tietze
Publisher: Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
ISBN: 1775822168
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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In South Africa, with its highly contested and changing understandings of national identity, its National Gallery is no less a contested space. A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery considers questions of artistic and cultural identity, from the late 19th century to the present day. It explores how the gallery has understood its function and its public, as a ‘national’ gallery from 1930 and, before that, the chief gallery of the Cape Colony. This question is investigated through a study of the gallery’s administration, collection and exhibition practices over the last 150 years. What is understood by and expected of a national gallery varies considerably worldwide. Should it regard itself as part of a broad international cultural discourse, or should it be representative of a specifically national – or even regional – identity? The gallery is a microcosm of the greater debate: how the South African nation relates to the larger world and how, if at all, it understands the concept of a shared culture. In the last 20 years, Museum Studies have become a major part of the field of Cultural Studies. There is a vast literature on what might be called the ‘history’ museum, but far less on the art museum or gallery. To date, there has been no large-scale historical inquiry into the Iziko SANG, the country’s national gallery. The absence of such a history marks a serious gap in the literature, which this study aims to fill.

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Category : Afrikaans literature
Languages : en
Pages : 826

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Includes publications received in terms of Copyright Act no. 9 of 1916.