Writing white on black : modernism as discursive paradigm in South African writing on modern Black art

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dc.contributor.advisorKlopper, Sandra
dc.contributor.advisorCilliers, Paul
dc.contributor.authorVan Robbroeck, Lize
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-12T07:39:48Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:18:47Z
dc.date.available2008-08-12T07:39:48Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:18:47Z
dc.date.issued2006-03
dc.descriptionThesis (PhD (Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I deconstruct key concepts, terminologies, and rhetorical conventions employed in white South African writing on modern black art. I trace the genealogy of the dominant discursive practices of the apartheid era to the cultural discourses of the colonial era, which in turn had their origins in the Enlightenment. This genealogical tracing aims to demonstrate that South African art writing of the 20th century partook of a tradition of Western writing that was primarily intent upon producing the Western subject as a rational Enlightenment agent via the debased objectification of the colonial Other. In the process of the deconstruction, I identify the most significant discursive shifts that occurred from the 1930’s, when the first publications emerged, to the 1990’s, when South Africa’s new political dispensation opened up a different cultural landscape.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1332
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherStellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Stellenbosch
dc.subjectDissertations -- Arten
dc.subjectTheses -- Arten
dc.subjectDissertations -- Visual artsen
dc.subjectTheses -- Visual artsen
dc.subjectArt criticism -- South Africa -- Authorshipen
dc.subjectArt, Black -- South Africaen
dc.subjectArt, South African -- 20th century -- Political aspectsen
dc.subjectArt and society -- South Africaen
dc.subjectModernism (Aesthetics)en
dc.titleWriting white on black : modernism as discursive paradigm in South African writing on modern Black arten
dc.typeThesis
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