Thesis (PhD (Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / In this thesis I deconstruct key concepts, terminologies, and rhetorical conventions employed in white South
African writing on modern black art. I trace the genealogy of the dominant discursive practices of the
apartheid era to the cultural discourses of the colonial era, which in turn had their origins in the
Enlightenment. This genealogical tracing aims to demonstrate that South African art writing of the 20th
century partook of a tradition of Western writing that was primarily intent upon producing the Western
subject as a rational Enlightenment agent via the debased objectification of the colonial Other. In the
process of the deconstruction, I identify the most significant discursive shifts that occurred from the 1930’s,
when the first publications emerged, to the 1990’s, when South Africa’s new political dispensation opened
up a different cultural landscape.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1332 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Van Robbroeck, Lize |
| Contributors | Klopper, Sandra, Cilliers, Paul, University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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