Seen, Heard and Valued WAM celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection
Item date(s): 2021
Julia Charlton
- (edited with an introduction by) Lesley Spiro Cohen
- (edited with an introduction by) Leigh Leyde
- (joint editor) Kutowano Mokgojwa
- (joint editor) Anitra Nettleton
- (joint editor) Fiona Rankin-Smith
- (joint editor) Zeblon Vilakazi
- (foreword by) Thulani Sibeko
- (foreword by)
Pages: 403pp Size: 220mm Language: English
Place publication: (Johannesburg, RSA) Publisher: Wits Art Museum ISBN: 978-1-990971-1-99-0
Ref: SA/2369
Articles
Forty years and what have we got to show for it? Reflections on the interwoven journeys of the Standard Bank African Art Collection and Wits Art Museum. Julia Charlton (essay by) p12
Four decades of supporting and preserving Africa's artistic heritage and building African connections Desiree Pooe (essay by) p23
Planting trees under whose shade one does not expect to sit Lesley Spiro Cohen (essay by) p26
My experience with the African Art Collection Nomasonto Tsotetsi (essay by) p38
Field trips and field notes: Visits to the Eastern Cape in the 1980s Sipho Ndabambi (essay by) p42
The Standard Bank African Art Collection: Notes from the first twelve years 1977-1989 Michael W Zhang (essay by) p46
Diagnosing our differences: Assessing the political significance of the Standard Bank-Wits University support for African Art past, present and future John Stremlau (essay by) p54
As though it was yesterday . . . Jacob Lebeko (essay by) p63
Re-Collections: Forty years of exhibitions with the Standard Bank Art Collection Fiona Rankin-Smith (essay by) p67
Beadwork and Pedi figures: Canonising historical South African art in the exhibition African Tribal Sculpture Lynne Cooney (essay by) p81
Personal Reflection Mpho Monama (essay by) p92
Dust: Living with imperishability Hlonipa Mokoena (essay by) p98
An ongoing story: Transitions, innovations and evaluations of authenticity Dunja Hersak (essay by) p102
Desire or satire?: Ambivalence in West and Central African 'colon' figures Nomvuyo Horwitz (essay by) p113
Embedded narratives: The multilayered meanings of kente cloth Chris Richards (essay by) p121
Archaeologists and pottery: The purchase history of Pedi, Venda and Zulu pottery in the Standard Bank African Art Collection Thomas Huffman (essay by) p127
Zulu pottery and its production context Gavin Whitelaw (essay by) p139
Two beadwork encodings in Maphumulo: Contextual regional research revisited Juliette Leeb-du Toit (essay by) p153
tale of three aprons Vibeke Maria Viestad (essay by) Justine Wintjes (essay by) p164
Ndebele beadwork and the puberty ceremony Tetsuya Kamei (essay by) p176
Artist unrecorded': The problem of identifying a maker in African 'art' collections Anitra Nettleton (essay by) p181
Imaginative reconfigurations: Dis/continuities in the work of20th-century artists from rural KwaZulu-Natal Sandra Klopper (essay by) p193
The ' Democracy Tapestry' Brenda Schmahmann (essay by) p207
Handwoven treasures in the Standard Bank African Art Collection: Some reflections on time invested making Walter Oltmann (essay by) p214
Trading places: Jackson Hlungwani and the 'Altar of God': From mountain to museum Rayda Becker (essay by) p224
Materiality and meaning Alison Kearney (essay by) p234
The guests Vuyiswa Ngesman (essay by) p242
Open House Alexander Opper (essay by) p248
Connecting over art: Utilising art collections in programmes to promote connection, engagement and learning Kamal Naran (essay by) p254
An hour is just enough Bronwen Findlay (essay by) p260
African fractals and 'A Vocabulary for Vernacular Algorithms' Tegan Bristow (essay by) p263
Premonition technology divination Sarah Nuttall (essay by) p269
Exhibiting knowledge: Identity, power, and aesthetic experience in Africa's arts Christine Mullen Kreamer (essay by) p273
Art in the age of icons: The search for iconic works in the Standard Bank African Art Collection Barbara Freemantle (essay by) p284
Object biographies: Three books and three exhibitions Joni Brenner (essay by) p294