| Module code | VKK 221 |
| Qualification | Undergraduate |
| Faculty | Faculty of Humanities |
| Module content | Visual (Post)colonialisms This module investigates aspects of Africanness, Afrocentrism, multiculturalism, transnationalism and the African diaspora and studies a cross section of work including traditional art, tourist art and the hybrid aesthetics of contemporary African art and visual culture. The module also focuses on the ideology of imperialism and colonialism and its influence on art and visual culture from the nineteenth century onwards. The influence of postcolonial thinking on the deconstruction of the ideology of colonialism is highlighted with reference to landscape and memory, the exotic and primitivism in South African visual culture. |
| Module credits | 20.00 |
| Programmes | |
| Prerequisites | No prerequisites. |
| Contact time | 2 lectures per week, 1 discussion class per week |
| Language of tuition | Double Medium |
| Academic organisation | Visual Arts |
| Period of presentation | Semester 2 |
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