`PICTURING CHANGE- CURATING VISUAL ART CULTURE AT POST APARTHEID UNIVERSITIES` BRENDA SCHMAHMANN

"PICTURING CHANGE- CURATING VISUAL ART CULTURE AT POST APARTHEID UNIVERSITIES" BRENDA SCHMAHMANN, 2013, FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION

In Picturing Change, Brenda Schmahmann explores the implications of deploying the visual domain in the service of transformative agendas and unpacks the complexities, contradictions and slippages involved in this process. She shows that although most new commissions have been innovative, some universities have acquired works with potentially traditionalist even backward-looking implications. While the motives behind removing inherited imagery may be underpinned by a desire to unsettle white privilege, in some cases such actions can also serve to maintain the status quo. This book is unique in exploring the transformative ethos evident in the curation of visual culture at South African universities. It will be invaluable to readers interested in public art, the politics of curating and collecting, as well as to those involved in transforming tertiary and other public institutions into spaces that welcome diversity.