Introduction Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Irma Stern in a Global Context: Expressionist Influences Chapter 2 Cape Town Blues: Painting South Africa Chapter 3 Congo and Zanzibar Chapter 4 Modernism Under Apartheid: Art and Social Context Chapter 5 Irma Stern and Post-Apartheid South Africa Conclusion Biographical Timeline Bibliography Index
Through both archives and interviews, this critical art history study explores the racial dimensions of South African modern painter Irma Stern’s life and art work.
LaNitra M. Berger is Senior Director of Fellowships for the Office of Undergraduate Education and Affiliate Faculty in the African & African American Studies (AAAS) Program and the History and Art History Department at George Mason University, USA.
LaNitra M. Berger’s subtle and very timely study brilliantly mines
Stern’s story and her works’ imagery to extract from them essential
insights into global modernism, art under apartheid, and Stern’s
conflicted legacy.
*Peter Chametzky, Professor of Art History, University of South
Carolina, USA*
Strikingly original and well-researched, Irma Stern and the Racial
Paradox of South African Modern Art is the work of a pioneering
scholar. Employing a powerful Black feminist and decolonial
perspective, LaNitra M. Berger questions received ideas about what
constitutes modern African art. She shows us that the life and work
of a controversial white artist like Irma Stern, whose work was
predicated on racial exploitation, is important to the formation of
global modernism in South Africa and beyond.
*Prita Meier, Associate Professor of Art History, New York
University, USA*
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