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Grey Areas
Representation, Identity and Politics in Contemporary South African Art

Item date(s): 1999

Brenda Atkinson  - (edited with an introduction by)
Candice Breitz  - (joint editor)
Mandla Langa  - (foreword by)
Kendell Geers  - (additional material)
Robert Greig  - (additional material)
Okwui Enwezor  - (additional material)


Pages: 321pp
Size: 210mm


Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: Chalkham Hill Press
ISBN: 0-620-23664-7

Additional notes:
With 34 essays and five appendices.

See Additional Material: Reviews by Robert Greig in the Sunday Independent dated 30 Mar and 25 May 1997; Correspondence with and Call for Contributions by Brenda Atkinson; Article by Kendell Geers with response by Candice Breitz.

See also: copy of Reframing the black subject: Ideology and fantasy in contemporary South African Art (SA/2315)

Ref: SA/0436

Articles

Black Voice
 Siemon Allen (essay by)
   p33

Recrimination and Imagination
 Marion Arnold (essay by)
   p37

Disembodiment and the Total Body. A Response to Enwezor on Contemporary South African Representation.
 Brian Keith Axel (essay by)
   p41

On Entering the Debate
 Carol Becker (essay by)
   p65

Antibodies: Misrepresentations of the body in South African art discourse
 Emma Bedford (essay by)
   p71

Private Parts and Public Selves - An Excerpt
 Ricky Burnett (essay by)
   p79

Point of No Return in Contemporary South African Art: Reflections on the Past, the Present and the Future
 Pitso Chinzima (essay by)
   p85

Over the Rainbox - by way of a reply to Okwui Enwezor
 Jeremy Cronin (essay by)
   p95

ETHNO-PORNE: Four Brief Views into the Ethics of Imaging Black Bodies
 J. Yolande Daniels (essay by)
   p101

Illusions of Fixity
 Patricia Davison (essay by)
   p109

Treaing Water in a Fluid World: Post-Human Identities, Ambivalence and Art
 Maureen de Jager
   p111

Interview
 Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa (interview with)
 Brenda Atkinson (interviews by)
   p117

Observations and Reflections
 Neville E. Dubow (essay by)
   p127

Do the Right Thing
 Marlene Dumas (essay by)
   p129

Checking one another's credentials?
 Lola Frost (essay by)
   p133

Rainbow Mischief
 Jack M. Ginsberg (essay by)
   p137

There is no escape from the politics of our knowledge
 Veliswa Gwintsa (essay by)
   p141

Transforming the National Gallery
 Marilyn Martin (essay by)
   p145

Apartheid and alienation in the work of art
 Raymond Ngcobo (essay by)
   p153

The Quest for Appropriate Representation
 Andries Walter Oliphant (essay by)
   p157

Artknots
 Anonymous (essay by)
   p163

Babbit's Feast: Violence and Representation in South African Art
 Colin Richards (essay by)
   p165

Untitled
 Tracey Rose (essay by)
   p211

The Pit Calling the Kettle Black
 Ruth Rosengarten (essay by)
   p213

Interview
 Lorna Ferguson (interview by)
 Albie Sachs (interview with)
   p221

Censorship, Censoriousness and a Colourful Commotion: The Useful Objects Controversy
 Brenda Schmahmann (essay by)
   p227

Culture-Making in Contemporary Africa
 AbdouMaliq Simone (essay by)
   p239

Dissenting Detail: Another Story of Art and Politics in South Africa
 Penny (Penelope) Siopis (essay by)
   p245

The Beauty of Grey
 Greg Streak (essay by)
   p267

Colonialism as Historical Trauma
 Ernst van Alphen (essay by)
   p269

The Difference between colonisation and desire
 Hentie van der Merwe (essay by)
   p283

Gaze, A Look, A Representation, As Seen Through Queer and Neofemimist Theories, Amongst Others
 Amanda Williamson (essay by)
   p287

Out of line: When do artists and critics go too far?
 Sue Williamson (essay by)
   p291

Call for Contributions
 Candice Breitz (appendix)
 Brenda Atkinson (appendix)
   p306

Knives drawn as the Band-Aid rainbow nation shows its true colours
 Robert Greig (appendix)
   p310

Is this an insult to black women?
 Hazel Friedman (appendix)
   p315

Shock people in an empowering way
 Nomboniso Gasa (appendix)
   p319

Cartoon
 Zapiro (appendix)
   p321







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