dc.contributor.author |
Goodrich, Andre
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dc.contributor.author |
Strydom, Richardt
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dc.contributor.editor |
Mare, Estelle Alma |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-07-09T12:09:41Z |
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dc.date.available |
2015-07-09T12:09:41Z |
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dc.date.created |
2014 |
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dc.date.issued |
2014 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Ingold has used Marx’s distinction between exchange value and use value to distinguish between land
and landscape. Land, Ingold suggests, is abstracted, quantitative and interchangeable. Landscape, by
contrast, is qualitative and emerges as habitation’s embodiment of the history of inhabitants’ activities,
projects and livelihoods. We use this distinction to argue that the 1913 Land Act effectively created
a white monopoly on the production of landscape. By closely considering some of the resulting
landscapes, we argue that a significant consequence of this monopoly has been the emergence of
what we call the territorial ontology. We characterize this ontology as a world in which land and
landscape are collapsed into territory – a bounded, possessed collection of qualities value can be
extracted from. This is the world of colonial modernity’s racialized relations of production. In the
second part of our article, we examine the North-West University’s landscape art collection and using
Ingold to illuminate the relationship between landscapes and representations of landscapes, we argue
that these representations draw attention to the world and as such form a part of the complex holding
the territorial ontology in place. After demonstrating that the territorial ontology has been central
to the racialization of the relations of production in South Africa’s colonial modernity, we call for
landscape restitution and suggest that universities are the spaces from which to lead this initiative. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Ingold het Marx se onderskeid tussen ruil-/wisselwaarde en verbruikerswaarde gebruik om tussen
land en landskap te onderskei. Ingold suggereer dat land is geabstraheer, kwantitatief en verwisselbaar.
Landskap daarenteen is kwalitatief en ontwikkel as bewoning – ‚n konsep wat die geskiedenis van
die inwoners, hul aktiwiteite, projekte en leefwyse beliggaam. Ons gebruik hierdie onderskeid om te
argumenteer dat die Grondgebiedewet van 1913 suksesvol daarin geslaag het om ‚n wit monopolie
te skep ten opsigte van die produksie van landskappe. Deur ‚n noukeurige inagneming van sodanige
landskappe argumenteer ons dat ʼn unieke gevolg van hierdie monopolie dui op die begin van wat ons
die territoriale ontologie noem. Ons beskryf hierdie ontologie as ‚n wêreld waarin land en landskap
verval het in ‚n bepaalde gebiedsbesitting van waaruit kwaliteitswaardes afgelei sou kon word. Dit is
die wêreld van koloniale moderniteit se rasgebaseerde verhoudings van produksie. In die tweede deel
van ons artikel ondersoek ons die Noord-Wes Universiteit se landskapskunsversameling en gebruik
ons Ingold om die verhouding tussen landskappe en representasies van landskappe te belig. Ons
argumenteer dat hierdie representasies die aandag vestig op die wêreld en as sodanig deel vom van
die komplekse instandhouding van die territoriale ontologie. Nadat ons gedemonstreer het dat die
territoriale ontology sentraal tot die rasgedrewe verhoudingsproduksie in Suid-Afrika se koloniale
moderniteit, rig ons ‚n versoek vir landskapkompensasie en stel ons voor dat universiteite die ruimtes
is van waar hierdie inisiatief gelei moet word. |
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dc.description.uri |
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/sajah |
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dc.format.extent |
19 Pages |
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dc.format.medium |
PDF |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Goodrich, A & Strydom, R 2014, 'Landscape art and the territorial ontology : a call for landscape restitution', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 57-75 . [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html] |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0258-3542 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46818 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Art Historical Work Group of South Africa |
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dc.rights |
Art Historical Work Group of South Africa |
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dc.subject |
Landscape |
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dc.subject |
Territory |
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dc.subject |
Belonging |
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dc.subject |
Sovereignty |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Art -- History |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Architecture -- History |
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dc.title |
Landscape art and the territorial ontology : a call for landscape restitution |
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dc.title.alternative |
’n Beroep op landskapkompensasie |
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dc.type |
Article |
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