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Figuring faith : images of belief in Africa / curated and edited by Fiona Rankin-Smith

Published
Johannesburg : Fourthwall Books, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
vii, 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Rankin-Smith, Fiona and Standard Bank Centre Art Gallery

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Contents
Exhibition installation views -- Seeing, believing and the dead -- Smashing the divine image -- The sacred : holy and demonic -- Skin and underneath -- Shadow catchers : aspects of the spiritual in the work of three South African photographers -- Liminal states -- Chasing shadows -- Good faith -- Kali : the defiant female -- Faith or expediency, religion or art? A consideration of contemporary transgressive religious images -- Portraits from a grid, 1999-2010 -- Fetishising (and de-fetishising) the missionary gaze -- Divine communications -- Dressed for the occasion -- Filemon Manjaze's gourds -- Altered states : transfiguring and transforming -- Dancing in colour : a soul's journey to spirit -- Screaming image : Klas Thibeletsa's Child Abuse and the post-apartheid confessional -- The 'Truth Games' series.
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ISBN
9780986985065
0986985066
Note
Documents, and expands upon, the exhibition of South African art and artists which was held in 2006 at the Standard Bank Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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