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Život umjetnosti : Journal for Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture, Vol. 92 No. 1, 2013.

Original scientific paper

Kentridge’s Subtext

Leonida Kovač

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Abstract

This article analyzes several multimedia installations by the contemporary South African artist William Kentridge, understanding his artistic procedure as a deconstruction and refiguration of the cultural artefact, or a resemantization of cultural history. The author considers the modalities of Kentridge’s performative critical reading of the European Enlightenment, which is contextualized in his art with regard to the capitalistic colonial and genocide policies practiced on the African continent.

Keywords

animation; intermediality; performance; performatic animation; disenactment; avantgarde; refiguration; resemantization; "translation drive"; performative translation; Enlightenment; hybridism; colonialism; genocide; cultural history; "the political unconscious"

Hrčak ID:

185625

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/185625

Publication date:

1.7.2013.

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