TY - JOUR
T1 - Contemporary Bushman Art
T2 - The Work of the !Xun Artist Flai Shipipa
AU - Barnabas, Shanade Bianca
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PY - 2020/8/7
Y1 - 2020/8/7
N2 - Contemporary !Xun artists of South Africa’s Northern Cape Province have produced art that has been described as nostalgic and primitive. Yet the content of these artworks highlights astute political commentary, asserting belonging and immediacy in a political milieu where historically Bushman groups have been ostracized and delegitimized. The !Xun artist Flai Shipipa has created art that is a hybrid spiritual expression with inferences to Bushman cosmology and Christianity. Through this religio-political imagery Shipipa’s canvases are a tangible cultural record of assertions of identity, authenticity, belonging, faith, ambiguity and memory.
AB - Contemporary !Xun artists of South Africa’s Northern Cape Province have produced art that has been described as nostalgic and primitive. Yet the content of these artworks highlights astute political commentary, asserting belonging and immediacy in a political milieu where historically Bushman groups have been ostracized and delegitimized. The !Xun artist Flai Shipipa has created art that is a hybrid spiritual expression with inferences to Bushman cosmology and Christianity. Through this religio-political imagery Shipipa’s canvases are a tangible cultural record of assertions of identity, authenticity, belonging, faith, ambiguity and memory.
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U2 - 10.1080/08949468.2020.1791572
DO - 10.1080/08949468.2020.1791572
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090086790
SN - 0894-9468
VL - 33
SP - 333
EP - 347
JO - Visual Anthropology
JF - Visual Anthropology
IS - 4
ER -