Main entry:

Brandt, Nicola, 1983- author.

Title & Author:

Landscapes between then and now : recent histories in Southern African photography, performance and video art / Nicola Brandt.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2021]

Description:

xxi, 258 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 24 cm.

Series:

Photography, place, environment

Notes:
"First published 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction and background -- Beyond bearing witness -- Santu Mofokeng's appropriated landscapes -- Picturing stillness, aura and ambivalence -- Namibia's War of Independence : power, knowledge and amnesia -- Memorial landscapes : between documentary realism and the imaginary -- Histories and landscapes embodied -- Imagined geographies and new practices of self.

Summary:

Examines the increasingly compelling and diverse cross-disciplinary work of photographers and artists made during the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid and into the contemporary era. By examining specific artworks made in South Africa, Namibia and Angola, Brandt sheds light on established and emerging themes related to aftermath landscapes, embodied histories, (un)belonging, spirituality and memorialization. She shows how landscape and identity are mutually constituted, and profiles this process against the background of the legacy of the acutely racially divisive policies of the apartheid regime that are still reflected on the land. As a signpost throughout the book, Brandt draws on the work of the renowned South African photographer Santu Mofokeng and his critical thinking about landscape. Landscapes Between Then and Now explores how practitioners who engage with identity and their physical environment as a social product might reveal something about the complex and fractured nature of postcolonial and contemporary societies. Through diverse strategies and aesthetics, they comment on inherent structures and epistemologies of power whilst also expressing new and radical forms of self-determinism. Brandt asks why these cross-disciplinary works ranging from social documentary to experimental performance and embodied practices are critical now, and what important possibilities for social and political reflection and engagement they suggest.

ISBN:

1032238828 paperback
9781032238821 paperback

Subject:

Mofokeng, Santu, 1956-2020 Criticism and interpretation.
Photography Political aspects Africa, Southern.
Documentary photography Africa, Southern.
Landscape photography Africa, Southern.
Art Political aspects South Africa.
Documentary photography South Africa.
Landscapes in art.
Art Aspect politique Afrique du Sud.
Photographie documentaire Afrique du Sud.
Paysages dans l'art.
Photographie Aspect politique Afrique australe.
Photographie documentaire Afrique australe.
Photographie de paysages Afrique australe.
Art Political aspects
Documentary films
Documentary photography
South Africa

Added entries:

Photography, place, environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318440
Call No.: 318440
Copy: 1
Status: Available