T'kama-Adamastor : inventions of Africa in a South African painting
by
 
Coetzee, Cyril.

Title
T'kama-Adamastor : inventions of Africa in a South African painting

Author
Coetzee, Cyril.

ISBN
9781868382811
 
9781868382828

Personal Author
Coetzee, Cyril.

Publication Information
Johannesburg : University of the Witwatersrand, 2000.

Physical Description
188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Contents
Introduction / Introducing the painting / From cartoon to canvas, a documentary text with photographs / Refiguring colonial identity: Cyril Coetzee's answer to Amshewitz and Gill / Myth of origin / Reimagining the past: André Brink in conversation with Reingard Nethersole -- Other Ethiopians: sideway glances at fiction, history and myth in "The first life of Adamstor" / History on white linen / Ptolemy, paradise and purgatory: Portugal and the African imaginary / Inventions of Africa / Preller's "Discovery" / Alchemical passage to India: Camoeseana and the De Bry Company's "Petits Voyages" / Animals, Arcadia, allegory & c / Blowing away footprints: the Smuts Hall windows and the politics of the public commission

Personal Subject
Coetzee, Cyril. T'kama-Adamastor.

Corporate Subject
University of the Witwatersrand. William Cullen Library.
 
University of the Witwatersrand. William Cullen Library. (OCoLC)fst00765694

Title Subject
T'kama-Adamastor (Coetzee, Cyril) (OCoLC)fst01395699

Subject Term
Symbolism in art.
 
Imperialism in art.
 
Painting -- South Africa -- Johannesburg.
 
Imperialism in art. (OCoLC)fst00968141
 
Painting. (OCoLC)fst01050567
 
Symbolism in art. (OCoLC)fst01140771
 
Malerei.
 
Graphik.
 
Kunst.
 
Afrika (Motiv) (DE-588)4133137-0
 
Geschichte. (DE-588)4020517-4
 
Malerei. (DE-588)4037220-0

Geographic Term
South Africa -- In art.
 
South Africa. (OCoLC)fst01204616
 
South Africa -- Johannesburg. (OCoLC)fst01206332
 
Südafrika
 
Afrika
 
Staat Südafrika. (DE-588)4078012-0

Genre
Art. (OCoLC)fst01423702

Added Author
Vladislavić, Ivan, 1957-


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