Postcolonial Counterimages: Artistic Reflections on Remembering German Colonialism in Namibia

Authors: Fabian Lehmann

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The German colonial period in Namibia was long a neglected topic in Namibian visual arts. This only began to change a few years ago. The interest of a few artists and programmatic exhibitions at the National Art Gallery in Windhoek paved the way for this shift. Colonial land acquisition, Namibian resistance, and genocide are now established themes in the Namibian art world.
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“Postcolonial Counter-Images” presents a selection of contemporary artworks from various disciplines—from printmaking to video art and from performance to installation—that address the remembering and forgetting of the German colonial era in present-day Namibia. The result is the first comprehensive art historical research study on the artistic engagement with German-Namibian history.

Details
Language: German
2021
474 pages
Illustrations in color
Vol. 13
ISBN: 978-3-906927-27-5
ISSN 2296-6986
eISBN 978-3-906927-28-2
eISSN 2297-444X

Authors
Fabian Lehmann hat 2020 an der Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies im Fach Arts in Africa promoviert. Zuvor war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Iwalewahaus, dem Kunstzentrum der Universität Bayreuth, wo er sich unter anderem mit der Zugänglichkeit der dortigen Kunstsammlung moderner und zeitgenössischer afrikanischer Kunst befasst hat.
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