Washed With Sun - 9780822943327
Un libro in lingua di Jeremy Foster edito da Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2008
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South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from “being South African,” and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa.
In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history.
In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Washed With Sun
- Sottotitolo: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Jeremy Foster
- Editore: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
- Collana: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Luglio '08
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Landscapes in art Arts and society South Africa History 20th century Landscapes Psychological aspects
- Pagine: 336
- Dimensioni mm: 254 x 177 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0822943328
- EAN-13: 9780822943327