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A bold reimagining of the literary history of Decadence through a
close examination of the transnational contexts of Oscar Wilde's
classic novelĀ The Picture of Dorian Gray. Building upon a
large body of archival and critical work on Oscar Wilde's only
novel, Dorian Unbound offers a new account of the importance of
transnational contexts in the forging of Wilde's imagination and
the wider genealogy of literary Decadence. Sean O'Toole argues that
the attention critics have rightly paid to Wilde's backgrounds in
Victorian Aestheticism and French Decadence has had the unintended
effect of obscuring a much broader network of transnational
contexts. Attention to these contexts allows us to reconsider how
we read The Picture of Dorian Gray, what we believe we know about
Wilde, and how we understand literary Decadence as both a
persistent, highly mobile cultural mode and a precursor to global
modernism. In developing a transnational framework for reading
Dorian Gray, O'Toole recovers a subterranean network of
nineteenth-century cultural movements. At the same time, he joins
several active and vital conversations about what it might mean to
expand the geographical reach of Victorian studies and to trace the
globalization of literature over a longer period of time. Dorian
Unbound includes chapters on the Irish Gothic, German historical
romance, US magic-picture tradition, and experimental English
epigrams, as well as a detailed history and a new close reading of
the novel, in an effort to understand Wilde's contribution to a
more dynamic idea of Decadence than has been previously known. From
its rigorous account of the broad archive of texts that Wilde read
and the array of cultural movements from which he drew inspiration
in writing Dorian Gray to the novel's afterlives and global
resonances, O'Toole paints a richer picture of the author and his
famously allusive prose. This book makes a compelling case for a
comparative reading of the novel in a global context. It will
appeal to historians and admirers of Wilde's career as well as to
scholars of nineteenth-century literature, queer and narrative
theory, Irish studies, and art history.
The Marquis of Mooikloof is a collection of short stories that
rings true with consistency and subtlety. Describing the
experiences of mixed new South Africa, they flit across moments or
episodes of suburban angst and ennui - but in a manner completely
without histrionics or wasted sentiment. The stories are mostly
short - some appear as mere fragments, others more as narratives.
In the title story a deposed Robert Mugabe and his wife move to
Mooikloof and their recently divorced businessman neighbour plans
an elaborate, but, as it turns out, ill-conceived meat braai to
welcome them to the neighbourhood. In 'The magic of numbers' an
elderly widow endlessly travels around townships and settlements,
protected by her gardener, buying lotto tickets in the belief that
the SA lotto is rigged to favour black people. The effectiveness of
this collection lies in its attention to detail; its observation of
the intimacies, the particularities, the painful truths, and the
unsaid, of local life and existence.
A bold reimagining of the literary history of Decadence through a
close examination of the transnational contexts of Oscar Wilde's
classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Building upon a large
body of archival and critical work on Oscar Wilde's only novel,
Dorian Unbound offers a new account of the importance of
transnational contexts in the forging of Wilde's imagination and
the wider genealogy of literary Decadence. Sean O'Toole argues that
the attention critics have rightly paid to Wilde's backgrounds in
Victorian Aestheticism and French Decadence has had the unintended
effect of obscuring a much broader network of transnational
contexts. Attention to these contexts allows us to reconsider how
we read The Picture of Dorian Gray, what we believe we know about
Wilde, and how we understand literary Decadence as both a
persistent, highly mobile cultural mode and a precursor to global
modernism. In developing a transnational framework for reading
Dorian Gray, O'Toole recovers a subterranean network of
nineteenth-century cultural movements. At the same time, he joins
several active and vital conversations about what it might mean to
expand the geographical reach of Victorian studies and to trace the
globalization of literature over a longer period of time. Dorian
Unbound includes chapters on the Irish Gothic, German historical
romance, US magic-picture tradition, and experimental English
epigrams, as well as a detailed history and a new close reading of
the novel, in an effort to understand Wilde's contribution to a
more dynamic idea of Decadence than has been previously known. From
its rigorous account of the broad archive of texts that Wilde read
and the array of cultural movements from which he drew inspiration
in writing Dorian Gray to the novel's afterlives and global
resonances, O'Toole paints a richer picture of the author and his
famously allusive prose. This book makes a compelling case for a
comparative reading of the novel in a global context. It will
appeal to historians and admirers of Wilde's career as well as to
scholars of nineteenth-century literature, queer and narrative
theory, Irish studies, and art history.
The vivid and powerful expressionist paintings of Irma Stern were a
key factor in the modernization of early 20th-century South African
art. Although she was widely recognized during her lifetime,
Stern's posthumous fame has dwindled outside her home country, and
this beautifully produced monograph serves to correct that
injustice. A master of color and composition, Stern is best known
for her portraits and still lifes that reflected her passion for
travel and devotion to home. Drawing from letters, journals, the
artist's own illustrated travelogues as well as the latest
scholarship, this volume traces Stern's childhood in South Africa
and her family's flight to Germany in the wake of the South African
War (1899-1902). Readers will learn of her artistic development at
the center of Weimar, Germany's expressionist avant-garde, her
return to her homeland and the derisive reaction to her early work,
and finally her productive travels throughout the African continent
and the acclaim she achieved. The book also focuses on the
political and cultural forces that shaped Stern's work, including
the unification of South Africa, the rise of expressionism in
Germany, the interplay between indigenous and colonial art in the
African continent, and Stern's continued influence on contemporary
South African artists.
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Gareth Nyandoro (Paperback)
Gareth Nyandoro, Adelaide Blanc, Sean O'Toole; Edited by Maria Varnava, Eva Langret
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R582
Discovery Miles 5 820
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Gareth Nyandoro is noted for his large works on paper, which often
spill out of their two-dimensional format and into installations
that include paper scraps and objects found in the street markets
of Harare, where he lives and works. The artist's primary source of
inspiration is the rapidly changing urban and cultural panorama of
Zimbabwe. Inspired by his training as a printmaker, and derived
from etching, the artist's distinctive technique, 'Kucheka-cheka',
is named after the infinitive and present tense declinations of the
Shona verb 'cheka', which means 'to cut'. This, the artist's first
monograph, documents selected bodies of work created since 2015 and
presented in exhibitions at venues including the Palais de Tokyo,
Paris, Quetzal Art Centre, Portugal, Tiwani Contemporary, London,
Modern Art Oxford, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten,
Amsterdam. The publication features an introduction by curator
Adelaide Blanc, who curated Nyandoro's 2017 solo exhibition
'Stall(s) of Fame' at the Palais de Tokyo. The publication also
includes a newly commissioned essay from Cape Town-based writer,
critic, and editor Sean O'Toole, which discusses notions of
'cutting' and 'spilling' in Nyandoro's practice against a backdrop
of both Zimbabwe's colonial past and 'southern urbanism' - city
life in the global South. Gareth Nyandoro was born in 1982 in
Bikita, Zimbabwe. He lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Recent
solo exhibitions include '...Read All About', Van Doren Waxter, New
York (2018); 'Stall(s) of Fame', Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017);
'Stall(s) of Fame', Tiwani Contemporary, London (2017). Selected
group exhibitions include 'Par Amour du Jeu', Magasins Generaux,
Paris (2018); 'Drawing Africa on the Map', Quetzal Art Centre,
Portugal (2018); 'Five Bhobh - Painting at the End of an Era',
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2018); 'Kaleidoscope', Modern Art Oxford
(2016) and 'Paper Cut', Tiwani Contemporary, London (2016).
Nyandoro won the FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices award in 2016
and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten,
Amsterdam, in 2014-15. The publication, launched alongside a solo
presentation of work by the artist at Art Basel Miami Beach in
December 2019, is produced by Tiwani Contemporary with generous
support from the A. G. Leventis Foundation, allowing for the
production of artists' books and their dissemination to libraries
and institutions across the globe. Designed by Joe Gilmore and
co-published with Anomie Publishing, the series is distributed
internationally by Casemate Art.
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Sean O'Toole, Richard Hart
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R803
Discovery Miles 8 030
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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