Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
Biographic Data
| ID | 291336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronwyn Law-Viljoen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronwyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Law-Viljoen |
| SIGNATURE | LAW-VILJOEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0598-1958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Albert Adams and the Deposition of Christ
The large painting, South Africa 1958–1959 (Deposition) (1959) and four small etchings, all 1955, on the Deposition of Christ, form the basis of a discussion of the place of Albert Adams in the canon of South African art and of this artist’s re-interpretation of a key image in Christian iconography and Western painting. In particular, the paper focuses on Adams’s Deposition images as particular instantiations of his concern with the formal and ph…
Teaching creative writing
The intimate violence of Diane Victor's Disasters of Peace
Examining two classical explorations of the meaning of violence, as well as the recent analysis by Achille Mbembe in his book On the postcolony (2001), in this article I consider the structure and representations of violence in post-1994 South Africa, with particular reference to Diane Victor's ongoing series of etchings, Disasters of Peace (2001–). I suggest that in the past two decades South African artists have represented violence not in ideo…
Bang-Bang Has Been Good to Us
This article considers the changing perceptions, expressions and representations of violence in South Africa post-1994, with particular reference to photography. Following the evolution of the documentary tradition in its relationship to the political history of South Africa, I will suggest that since the release of Nelson Mandela and the first democratic elections in South Africa, photography has taken a new turn, particularly with regard to its…
South Africans in the global art market
This essay on South African art explores, through commentary and a series of interviews, the relationship that South African artists have to a global art market and its concomitant “mediascape”. Rather than beginning with a theoretical analysis of the relationship of South Africa artists to the global market, I have deliberately sought an anecdotal account of the networks of relationships that reach from South Africa to galleries and art collecto…
Bang-Bang Has Been Good to Us
This article considers the changing perceptions, expressions and representations of violence in South Africa post-1994, with particular reference to photography. Following the evolution of the documentary tradition in its relationship to the political history of South Africa, I will suggest that since the release of Nelson Mandela and the first democratic elections in South Africa, photography has taken a new turn, particularly with regard to its…
South Africans in the global art market
This essay on South African art explores, through commentary and a series of interviews, the relationship that South African artists have to a global art market and its concomitant “mediascape”. Rather than beginning with a theoretical analysis of the relationship of South Africa artists to the global market, I have deliberately sought an anecdotal account of the networks of relationships that reach from South Africa to galleries and art collecto…
The intimate violence of Diane Victor's Disasters of Peace
Examining two classical explorations of the meaning of violence, as well as the recent analysis by Achille Mbembe in his book On the postcolony (2001), in this article I consider the structure and representations of violence in post-1994 South Africa, with particular reference to Diane Victor's ongoing series of etchings, Disasters of Peace (2001–). I suggest that in the past two decades South African artists have represented violence not in ideo…
Bang-Bang Has Been Good to Us
This article considers the changing perceptions, expressions and representations of violence in South Africa post-1994, with particular reference to photography. Following the evolution of the documentary tradition in its relationship to the political history of South Africa, I will suggest that since the release of Nelson Mandela and the first democratic elections in South Africa, photography has taken a new turn, particularly with regard to its…
Teaching creative writing
Albert Adams and the Deposition of Christ
The large painting, South Africa 1958–1959 (Deposition) (1959) and four small etchings, all 1955, on the Deposition of Christ, form the basis of a discussion of the place of Albert Adams in the canon of South African art and of this artist’s re-interpretation of a key image in Christian iconography and Western painting. In particular, the paper focuses on Adams’s Deposition images as particular instantiations of his concern with the formal and ph…
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