Making present the absent other : anamnesis and the work of Kiefer, Boltanski, Cruise and Coetzee

dc.contributor.authorRedelinghuys, Ian
dc.contributor.authorStevens, Ingrid
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-08T14:21:48Z
dc.date.available2012-03-08T14:21:48Z
dc.date.created2012-03-01
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractIt is possible that artists, in the making of memorials and monuments, might aid in the process of national healing after a traumatic national era or event. This, it is argued, is more likely to be achieved through the ‘counter-monument’, where a process of anamnesis might occur because of viewer participation, encouraged by certain kinds of contemporary approaches to memorials. Having established motivations for such a process, this article then examines selected examples of post-war German art and post-apartheid South African art, to show that visual representations might have a healing function. It concludes that psychology can learn from art, which can activate the instinct of reflection and act as a psychic mover.en_US
dc.description.abstractDie moontlikheid bestaan dat kunstenaars, deur die skepping van gedenktekens en monumente, ‘n wesenlike bydrae kan lewer ter heling van die nasie na die afloop van ‘n nasionale traumatiese voorval of era. Hierdie artikel stel voor dat die moontlikheid van sukses verbreed word deur die ‘teenmonument’, waar ‘n proses van anamnese dalk kan plaasvind as gevolg van deelname van die toeskouer, wat vergemaklik word deur sekere hedendaagse benaderings tot gedenktekens. Na bevestiging van die beredenering vir so ‘n proses, vervolgens ondersoek die skrywers geselekteerde voorbeelde van Duitse na-oorlogse kuns, sowel as Suid-Afrikaanse na-apartheid kuns om derhalwe te illustreer dat visuele voorstellings moontlik beskik oor helende funksies. Die sielkunde kan van die kunste leer, wat nabetragting kan aktiveer en sodoende die rol van die ‘psiegiese aanvoerder’ ['psigiese aanvoerder'] kan vervul.en_US
dc.format.extent14 p.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationRedelinghuys, I & Stevens, I 2010, 'Making present the absent other: anamnesis and the work of Kiefer, Boltanski, Cruise and Coetzee', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 29-42. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/18420
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectAnamnesisen_US
dc.subjectKiefer, Anselm, 1945-en_US
dc.subjectBoltanski, Christian, 1944-en_US
dc.subjectCruise, Wilma, 1945-en_US
dc.subjectCoetzee, Neelsen_US
dc.subjectMonumentsen_US
dc.subjectMemorialsen_US
dc.subjectCounter-monumentsen_US
dc.subjectGerman arten_US
dc.subjectSouth African arten_US
dc.subject.lcshArt -- History
dc.subject.lcshArchitecture -- History
dc.titleMaking present the absent other : anamnesis and the work of Kiefer, Boltanski, Cruise and Coetzeeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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