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The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity
Thesis (MA (VA)(Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
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| author | Mauchan, Fiona |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/2596 The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity Mauchan, Fiona Van Robbroeck, Lize University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. Dissertations -- Art Theses -- Art Dissertations -- Visual arts Theses -- Visual arts Dak'Art: Biennale de l'art africain contemporain Art, Modern -- 20th century Art, African -- 20th century -- Appreciation African diaspora Thesis (MA (VA)(Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. This thesis aims to assess the extent to which the African curated exhibition, Dak’Art: Biennale de l’art africain contemporain , succeeds in subverting hegemonic Western representations of African art as necessarily ‘exotic’ and ‘Other.’ My investigation of the Dak’Art biennale in this thesis is informed and preceded by a study of evolutionist assumptions towards African art and the continuing struggle for command over the African voice. I outline the trajectory of African art from primitive artifact to artwork, highlighting the prejudices that have kept Africans from being valued as equals and unique artists in their own right. I then look at exhibiting techniques employed to move beyond perceptions of the tribal, to subvert the exoticising tendency of the West and remedy the marginalised position of the larger African artistic community. Masters 2009-03-04T14:50:01Z 2010-06-01T08:53:17Z 2009-03-04T14:50:01Z 2010-06-01T08:53:17Z 2009-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2596 en University of Stellenbosch application/pdf Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| spellingShingle | Dissertations -- Art Theses -- Art Dissertations -- Visual arts Theses -- Visual arts Dak'Art: Biennale de l'art africain contemporain Art, Modern -- 20th century Art, African -- 20th century -- Appreciation African diaspora Mauchan, Fiona The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity |
| title | The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity |
| title_full | The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity |
| title_fullStr | The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity |
| title_full_unstemmed | The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity |
| title_short | The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity |
| title_sort | african biennale envisioning authentic african contemporaneity |
| topic | Dissertations -- Art Theses -- Art Dissertations -- Visual arts Theses -- Visual arts Dak'Art: Biennale de l'art africain contemporain Art, Modern -- 20th century Art, African -- 20th century -- Appreciation African diaspora |
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