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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

Stimulating critical thinking
 Kathryn Wheeler (essay by)
   p300

Moving images, moving perceptions: An interrogation of the use of film as a productive art history tool
 Melissa Parry (essay by)
   p308

fork in the road? Re-thinking educational engagement with the Standard Bank African Art Collection
 Leigh Leyde (essay by)
   p315

WAM as a classroom: The educational value of the Standard Bank African Art Collection
 Elona Shaff (essay by)
 Pam Kaplan (essay by)
   p324

Teaching gender and design in collaboration with WAM
 Deirdre Pretorius (essay by)
   p331

Performing the museum: Reflections on the archive as a teaching resource for theatre and performance
 Jessica Philile Mawuiena Foli (essay by)
   p336

Shaping the future/reshaping the past
 Nessa Liebhammer (essay by)
   p339







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