Postapartheid publics and the politics of ornament: Nationalism, identity, and the rhetoric of community in the decorative program of the new Constitutional Court, Johannesburg

Arts and Humanities

• Republic of South Africa 100%
• Johannesburg 100%
• Ornament 100%
• Constitutional Court 100%
• Urban 66%
• Architectural ornament 66%
• Public Building 66%
• Contemporary 33%
• Discourse 33%
• Post-colonial 33%
• Post-Apartheid 33%
• Implicit 33%
• Fantasy 33%
• Public Space 33%
• Architecture 33%
• Civics 33%
• National Imaginary 33%
• Visual Pleasure 33%
• Social meaning 33%
• Imagined Community 33%
• Elaboration 33%
• grandeur 33%
• architectural 33%
• longing 33%
• Sense of Place 33%
• point of reference 33%
• Proof 33%
• Decorum 33%
• Being-in-the-world 33%
• public architecture 33%
• Inclusivity 33%

Keyphrases

• Architectural Ornament 66%
• Being-in-the-world 33%
• National Imaginary 33%
• Grandeur 33%
• Visual Pleasure 33%
• Urban Identity 33%
• Social Meaning 33%
• Benedict Anderson 33%
• Public Architecture 33%
• Notion of Place 33%
• Architecture of Public Buildings 33%
• Architectural Solutions 33%
• Unity in Diversity 33%
• Imagined Communities 33%
• Afterthoughts 33%
• Identity Proofing 33%
• Decorum 33%