(Trans)Nationalism and "indigenisation" : ambivalences in South African settler primitivism between the 1920s and 1960s / Lisa Hörstmann.

Heidelberg, Germany : Arthistoricum.net, Heidelberg University Library, 2023.

x, 276 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm

"This work describes different facets of South African settler primitivism and the interactions of its protagonists, who moved between the poles of European modernism and local traditional cultures. Marked by great ambivalences, they oscillated between transnational and national approaches to an art production that appropriated indigenous landscapes, peoples and their visual cultures in order to indigenise white settlers to the South African land. A focus is set on the women artists Irma Stern and Maggie Laubser, who were key to the development of South African modernism."-- Back cover.

Books / Dissertations & Theses

English

January 10, 2024

Thesis (PhD) -- Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-265).