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History of the Iziko South African National Gallery, A
Reflections on art and national identity
A TIETZE
In South Africa, with its highly contested and changing understandings of national identity, its National Gallery is no less a contested space. This book considers questions of artistic and cultural identity, from the late 19th century to the present day. It explores how the gallery has understood its function and its public, as a ‘national’ gallery from 1930 and, before that, the chief gallery of the Cape Colony. This question is investigated through a study of the gallery’s administration, collection and exhibition practices over the last 150 years.
A HISTORY OF THE IZIKO
SOUTH NATIONAL GALLERY AFRICAN
Reflections on art and national identity
ANNA TIETZE
978 1 77582 216 5 978 1 77582 229 5
2017
264 PAGES
ZAR ZAR
R311.00 R311.00
CONTENTS
• Introduction: The aims and scope of a national gallery
• Chapter 1: The colonial gallery: acquisitions and identity, 1875-1930
• Chapter 2: Collecting for a national gallery, 1930-47
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Chapter 3: The post-war years, 1947-72 • Chapter 4: The protest years,
1973-1989
• Chapter 5: Transformation post-
apartheid, 1990-2017 • Conclusion
Anna Tietze is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Cape Town, with an interest in past and present conceptions of art, academic art history and the art museum. She has taught at the University of Cape Town for many years, in the departments of Cultural History, History of Art, Historical Studies and Michaelis School of Fine Art, and has had extensive curatorial experience with the Iziko South African National Gallery. She is a research associate of Iziko South African National Gallery.
SUITABLE FOR
Students of Museum and Heritage Studies, Curatorship and African Studies, South African art and history.
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