How to Cite

Hörstmann, Lisa: (Trans)Nationalism and “Indigenisation”: Ambivalences in South African Settler Primitivism between the 1920s and 1960s, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2023. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1081

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ISBN 978-3-98501-112-4 (PDF)
ISBN 978-3-98501-113-1 (Softcover)

Published

04/19/2023

Authors

Lisa Hörstmann

(Trans)Nationalism and “Indigenisation”

Ambivalences in South African Settler Primitivism between the 1920s and 1960s

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.

Lisa Hörstmann has completed her PhD in “Art History in a Global Context / Africa” at Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on South African modernism. She holds an MA in Art History from Open University, UK, and an MA in “Curating Visual Culture” from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1-23
Settler Primitivism in South Africa between the 1920s and 1960s
25-104
Reception of Settler Primitivism in South Africa
105-145
South African Artists and the Image of the Neue Frau
147-193
Excursus: Networks
195-229
Conclusion
231-235
Abbreviations for Archival Records
237-238
Bibliography
239-265
Original Texts of Translation
267-274
Illustration Credits
275-276

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