In 1985 a ground-breaking exhibition called Tributaries was mounted at the Africana
Museum (now MuseuMAfricA) in Johannesburg. 1 For the first time in Apartheid South …

Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid
between Indigenous and Western art. The double desire explored in this book is that of the …

After THE 1994 FIRST GENERAL ELECTION marked the official end of the apartheid era,
South Africa was welcomed back into the international community. This had profound effects …

Over the past fifteen years, critical and cura torial attention in the field of contemporary
African art has shifted steadily away from a primarily tropical geography of practice toward a …

Since the 1990s the understanding of contemporary art has taken on a broader implication.
It encompasses artistic practices and art worlds beyond Western Europe and North America …

Culture/Decolonization was first published in 1999 to a widely positive reception. Prior to his
detailed appraisal of the relationship between settler/colonial and Indigenous art in Australia …

In the 1980s postmodernism's retro culture was widely diagnosed as the endgame of
modernism. Some suggested that a bigger endgame was in play. Hal Foster glimpsed the …

This research project explores the role of art exhibitions in bringing the work of African
artists, in this case 'rural'South Africa artists, to the attention of the contemporary world …

By the mid-1980s anthropologists were concerned about what was being termed" a crisis in
representation"(Marcus and Fischer 1986), which drew its inspiration in part from the …