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Burnished Zulu ceramics between rural and urban South Africa / Elizabeth Perrill   Author:  Perrill, Elizabeth author Title:  Burnished Zulu ceramics between rural and urban South Africa / Elizabeth Perrill Publisher:  Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press 2022 Copyright:  ©2022 Description:  ix, 265 pages illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps 24 cm Series:  African expressive cultures Summary:  "When Zulu women potters innovate or move to a more urban setting, they are asked why they have abandoned tradition. Yet when they continue to follow convention or choose to stay in rural areas, art historians speak of their work as unchanging symbols of the past. Burnished rejects both stereotypes, acknowledging the agency of rural women as innovative artists and complex individuals negotiating a biased set of power structures. Featuring 90 color images, Burnished engages directly with individual artists and specific vessels, fracturing assumptions that Zulu ceramicists are resistant to rural transformation and insulated from urban realities. Elizabeth Perrill shares compelling narratives of women ceramic artists and the sophisticated beer pots they create--their aesthetic choices, audiences, production, and artistic lives. Simultaneously, Perrill documents the manner in which and reasons why ceramic arts, and at times the artists themselves, capitalize upon bucolic stereotypes of rural womanhood, are constrained by artistic methods, or chafe against definitions of what qualifies as a Zulu pot. Revealing how White South Africans and global art gatekeepers have continually twisted the designation of Zulu ceramics before, during, and after apartheid, Burnished provides an engaging look at the artistry of entrepreneurial Black women too often erased from historical records.--Cover Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index Contents:  Introduction : departing -- An illustrative legacy -- Museum ceramics : the first two vessels -- Two weddings, sixty years, one career -- Demonstrating Zuluness : ceramic performance -- The solo exhibition : challenges of arrival -- Epilogue Local Note:  AFA copy is a gift from Janet Stanley. Subject:  Pottery, Zulu -- South Africa Pottery, South African Women potters -- South Africa Women and the arts -- South Africa Pottery, South African Pottery, Zulu Women and the arts Women potters South Africa Added Title:  Zulu ceramics between rural and urban South Africa Added Series:  African expressive cultures Catalog Source No.:  (OCoLC)on1257403122 ISBN:  9780253061867 0253061865 9780253061874 0253061873 Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status   NK4178.6.S6 P48 2022 African Art 39088019751858 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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