Reflections on the mission(s) to capture the 'reader' and 'book' in southern African art

dc.contributor.authorKriel, Lize
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-31T05:50:24Z
dc.date.available2015-08-31T05:50:24Z
dc.date.issued2014-10
dc.description.abstractThis article presents some early reflections from a cultural historical project on the visualisation of reading practices. The focus is limited to images of people reading. The pervasiveness of such images in popular visual culture is illustrated, and how this relates to the established tradition amongst Western artists to paint the image of the reader. A number of scholars have contributed to the image of the reader in art as a field of study, all confirming the particular significance of depicting woman readers in Western art. The current investigation asks how, from our vantage point in the South, the representation, or non-representation, of readers in Africa, specifically southern Africa, stands within, or in opposition to, or in conversation with, the canonised tradition in Western art. The appropriation and negation of Western artistic conventions in the popular proliferation of visual images are also being considered. For the South African discussion, the artist Gerhard Sekoto is highlighted, and some of the contexts which helped shape his visualisations of people reading are being traced.en_ZA
dc.description.embargo2016-04-30en_ZA
dc.description.librarianhb2015en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcrc20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLize Kriel (2014) Reflections on the mission(s) to capture the ‘reader’ and ‘book’ in southern African art, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 28:5, 763-782, DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2014.970810.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0256-0046 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1992-6049 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/02560046.2014.970810
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/49657
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_ZA
dc.rights© Critical Arts Projects & Unisa Press. This is an electronic version of an article published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 763-782, 2014. doi : 10.1080/02560046.2014.970810. Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcrc20.en_ZA
dc.subjectVisualisationen_ZA
dc.subjectWestern artistsen_ZA
dc.subjectEarly reflectionsen_ZA
dc.subjectSouthern African arten_ZA
dc.titleReflections on the mission(s) to capture the 'reader' and 'book' in southern African arten_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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