| Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa Contributor(s): Foster, Jeremy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822959585 ISBN-13: 9780822959588 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. "Washed with Sun" achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from " being South African, " and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa. In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, "Washed with Sun" breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - Architecture | Criticism - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 700.968 |
| LCCN: 2007049532 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 7.01" W x 9.92" (1.95 lbs) 424 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
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| Publisher Description: South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from "being South African," and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa. In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history. |