Reflections on the mission(s) to capture the ‘reader’ and ‘book’ in southern African art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11416993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lize Kriel (0000-0002-2933-2215, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 763-782 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-0046 • E-ISSN: 1992-6049 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02560046.2014.970810 |
| OpenAlex | W2167756737 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article presents some early reflections from a cultural historical project on the visualisation of \nreading practices. The focus is limited to images of people reading. The pervasiveness of such \nimages in popular visual culture is illustrated, and how this relates to the established tradition \namongst Western artists to paint the image of the reader. A number of scholars have contributed to \nthe image of the reader in art as a field of study, all confirming the particular significance of \ndepicting woman readers in Western art. The current investigation asks how, from our vantage point \nin the South, the representation, or non-representation, of readers in Africa, specifically southern \nAfrica, stands within, or in opposition to, or in conversation with, the canonised tradition in Western \nart. The appropriation and negation of Western artistic conventions in the popular proliferation of \nvisual images are also being considered. For the South African discussion, the artist Gerhard Sekoto \nis highlighted, and some of the contexts which helped shape his visualisations of people reading are \nbeing traced
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Close reading · Conversation · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · History · Law · South African History and Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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