The Resource Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa, Jeremy Foster
Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa, Jeremy Foster
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Contents
-
- Introduction: landscape, character, and analogical imagination
- From imperialism to nationalism: South Africanism and the politics of white nationhood
- Visual representation, discursive landscape, and "a simple life in a genial climate"
- Between corporeality and representation: theoretical and methodological excursus
- Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking: the enactment of mythical place
- John Buchan's Hesperides: the aesthetics of improvement on the highveld
- Prospect, materiality, and the horizons of potentiality on Parktown Ridge
- Mrs. Everard's lonely career: the Komati Valley and the depiction of nostalgic displacement
- Modernity, memory, and the South African railways: the iconography of emptiness
- The life and afterlife of a contrapuntal subjectivity
- Isbn
- 9780822980353
- Label
- Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa
- Title
- Washed with sun
- Title remainder
- landscape and the making of white South Africa
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeremy Foster
- Subject
-
- 1900-1999
- ARCHITECTURE -- General
- ART -- Performance
- ART -- Reference
- Art
- Arts and society
- Arts and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Geschichte 1900-1930
- Geschichte 1900-1930
- Geschichte 1900-1950
- History
- Identität -- Weisse | Südafrika (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Kunst
- Landscapes -- Psychological aspects
- Landscapes -- Psychological aspects
- Landscapes in art
- Landscapes in art
- Landschaft
- Landschaft
- Landschaft -- Weisse | Südafrika (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Nationalismus
- Nationalismus
- Rassismus
- Rassismus
- South Africa
- South Africa -- In art
- Südafrika (Republik) -- Politik -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Südafrika (Staat)
- Südafrika (Staat)
- Weisse -- Landschaft | Südafrika (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Weiße
- Whites -- Race identity
- Whites -- Race identity -- South Africa
- Weisse
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- OCLCE
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1955-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Foster, Jeremy
- Dewey number
- 700.968
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- NX653.S66
- LC item number
- F67 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- South Africa
- Landscapes in art
- Arts and society
- Landscapes
- Whites
- ART
- ART
- ARCHITECTURE
- Arts and society
- Landscapes in art
- Landscapes
- Whites
- South Africa
- Landschaft
- Nationalismus
- Rassismus
- Landschaft
- Kunst
- Identität
- Landschaft
- Landschaft
- Nationalismus
- Rassismus
- Weisse
- Südafrika (Republik)
- Weisse
- Südafrika (Staat)
- Südafrika (Staat)
- Weiße
- Label
- Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa, Jeremy Foster
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: landscape, character, and analogical imagination -- From imperialism to nationalism: South Africanism and the politics of white nationhood -- Visual representation, discursive landscape, and "a simple life in a genial climate" -- Between corporeality and representation: theoretical and methodological excursus -- Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking: the enactment of mythical place -- John Buchan's Hesperides: the aesthetics of improvement on the highveld -- Prospect, materiality, and the horizons of potentiality on Parktown Ridge -- Mrs. Everard's lonely career: the Komati Valley and the depiction of nostalgic displacement -- Modernity, memory, and the South African railways: the iconography of emptiness -- The life and afterlife of a contrapuntal subjectivity
- Control code
- 756610547
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780822980353
- Level of compression
-
- lossless
- lossy
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt6zcxfj
- Reformatting quality
-
- preservation
- access
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)756610547
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Washed with sun : landscape and the making of white South Africa, Jeremy Foster
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: landscape, character, and analogical imagination -- From imperialism to nationalism: South Africanism and the politics of white nationhood -- Visual representation, discursive landscape, and "a simple life in a genial climate" -- Between corporeality and representation: theoretical and methodological excursus -- Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking: the enactment of mythical place -- John Buchan's Hesperides: the aesthetics of improvement on the highveld -- Prospect, materiality, and the horizons of potentiality on Parktown Ridge -- Mrs. Everard's lonely career: the Komati Valley and the depiction of nostalgic displacement -- Modernity, memory, and the South African railways: the iconography of emptiness -- The life and afterlife of a contrapuntal subjectivity
- Control code
- 756610547
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780822980353
- Level of compression
-
- lossless
- lossy
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt6zcxfj
- Reformatting quality
-
- preservation
- access
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)756610547
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- 1900-1999
- ARCHITECTURE -- General
- ART -- Performance
- ART -- Reference
- Art
- Arts and society
- Arts and society -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Geschichte 1900-1930
- Geschichte 1900-1930
- Geschichte 1900-1950
- History
- Identität -- Weisse | Südafrika (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Kunst
- Landscapes -- Psychological aspects
- Landscapes -- Psychological aspects
- Landscapes in art
- Landscapes in art
- Landschaft
- Landschaft
- Landschaft -- Weisse | Südafrika (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Nationalismus
- Nationalismus
- Rassismus
- Rassismus
- South Africa
- South Africa -- In art
- Südafrika (Republik) -- Politik -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Südafrika (Staat)
- Südafrika (Staat)
- Weisse -- Landschaft | Südafrika (Republik) -- Geschichte 20. Jh
- Weiße
- Whites -- Race identity
- Whites -- Race identity -- South Africa
- Weisse
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