HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Can the Visual Arts Make a Difference?

Marilyn Martin

Chapter 6 in AIDS and South Africa: the Social Expression of a Pandemic, 2004, pp 120-135 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is probably art historically and theoretically — and politically — incorrect to start a paper by quoting Clement Greenberg, arguably the preeminent art critic of the twentieth century, but one who has been out of favour for some time. I have indeed questioned my decision to do so and I hope that at the end of this chapter, you and I will understand why. I suspect that it has to do with my strong sense that art is undergoing profound changes, that we are experiencing the swing of the pendulum that characterizes the history and theory of aesthetic production — from romanticism to classicism, from the linear to the painterly, from figuration to abstraction. Being somewhat disconcerted by signs of a return to abstract painting must have made me receptive to Greenberg’s words that I read recently.

Keywords: Abstract Painting; Treatment Action Campaign; Aesthetic Production; Graffito Artist; South African Public (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523517_6

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