The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity

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dc.contributor.advisorVan Robbroeck, Lize
dc.contributor.authorMauchan, Fiona
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-04T14:50:01Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:53:17Z
dc.date.available2009-03-04T14:50:01Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:53:17Z
dc.date.issued2009-03
dc.descriptionThesis (MA (VA)(Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
dc.description.abstractThis thesis aims to assess the extent to which the African curated exhibition, Dak’Art: Biennale de l’art africain contemporain , succeeds in subverting hegemonic Western representations of African art as necessarily ‘exotic’ and ‘Other.’ My investigation of the Dak’Art biennale in this thesis is informed and preceded by a study of evolutionist assumptions towards African art and the continuing struggle for command over the African voice. I outline the trajectory of African art from primitive artifact to artwork, highlighting the prejudices that have kept Africans from being valued as equals and unique artists in their own right. I then look at exhibiting techniques employed to move beyond perceptions of the tribal, to subvert the exoticising tendency of the West and remedy the marginalised position of the larger African artistic community.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2596
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.subject.corpDak'Art: Biennale de l'art africain contemporainen
dc.subject.lcshArt, Modern -- 20th centuryen
dc.subject.lcshArt, African -- 20th century -- Appreciationen
dc.subject.lcshAfrican diasporaen
dc.titleThe African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneityen
dc.typeThesis
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