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De Arte Pub Date : 2022-03-30 DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2022.2029017

Anneli Bowie

{"title":"Visualising the Generic Techno-Imaginary: Exploring the Visual Rhetoric of the South African Fourth Industrial Revolution Agenda as Articulated through Commercial Stock Images","authors":"Anneli Bowie","doi":"10.1080/00043389.2022.2029017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.2022.2029017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article interrogates the visual language surrounding the South African Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) agenda, by rhetorically analysing stock images used in a prominent 4IR publication. This study serves to contribute to the ongoing critical discussion surrounding the general legitimacy and local propriety of the global 4IR narrative, which has been enthusiastically adopted by the South African government to guide techno-development policy. The article draws on critiques of 4IR discursivities but offers a novel contribution by examining the rhetorical power of images in reinforcing this influential but potentially problematic high-level policy narrative. The stock images analysed feature prominently in “Summary Report and Recommendations” by the Presidential Commission on the 4IR. Both the general rhetorical appeal of commercial stock images and the particular visual appeal of a “techno-imaginary” genre of images are analysed. In addition to outlining the persuasive effects of these images, according to Aristotle's means of persuasion (logos, pathos, and ethos), the article also critically reflects on their potential shortcomings. The article is concluded by arguing that these generic stock images offer an inadequate visual vocabulary for imagining a locally appropriate and desirable South African future.","PeriodicalId":40908,"journal":{"name":"De Arte","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44901484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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De Arte Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2022.2109837

Estelle McDowall, Leandra Koenig-Visagie, Obakeng Kgongoane

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Headloading: Exploring Creative Transmediation as a Methodological Direction in Visual Art Research 标题装载:探索视觉艺术研究的方法论方向的创造性跨界

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De Arte Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2022.2067710

T. Morgan, Katherine Arbuckle

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Politicised Parables: A Reassessment of Bonnie Ntshalintshali’s Early Ceramic Sculptures 政治化的寓言:对Bonnie Ntshalintshali早期陶瓷雕塑的再评价

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De Arte Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2022.2089457

Christopher Richards

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An Aesthetics of Ubuntu in Twentieth-Century Black Art in South Africa 二十世纪南非黑人艺术中的乌班图美学

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De Arte Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2022.2050076

Pfunzo Sidogi

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The Representation of Violence in the Middle East: Diasporic Interventions in the Work of Wafaa Bilal, Tammam Azzam, and Reza Aramesh 中东暴力的再现:Wafaa Bilal、tamam Azzam和Reza Aramesh作品中的流散干预

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De Arte Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2021.2017119

C. Mol, Runette Kruger

{"title":"The Representation of Violence in the Middle East: Diasporic Interventions in the Work of Wafaa Bilal, Tammam Azzam, and Reza Aramesh","authors":"C. Mol, Runette Kruger","doi":"10.1080/00043389.2021.2017119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.2021.2017119","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Presently, many states in the Middle East are experiencing instability and mass displacement due to political violence. In the wake of these upheavals, and particularly post 9/11, a spotlight has fallen on art from the region, and more specifically on art with violence and political conflict as theme. This article investigates the ways in which three artists in diaspora from the Middle East, namely Wafaa Bilal, Tammam Azzam, and Reza Aramesh, portray violence in their art, reflecting on the meaning of violence and opening up possibilities for reconsidering the representation of violence from this region. The conceptual sleight of hand in the work of the artists chosen for this thematic and contextual analysis offers insight into the experience and depiction of violence in their respective countries of origin in order to, arguably, dispel the often distorted and simplistic perception of the region and its troubles. This investigation includes a discussion of reductive depictions of violence in the Middle East by Western media, focusing on the historical, political, socioeconomic, and emotional factors that lead to such representations. Against the backdrop of the global proliferation of Islamophobic and xenophobic social relations, anti-immigration politics, and ongoing conflict, the work of the artists selected for discussion in this article foregrounds the emancipatory potential of art to challenge perceptions, negotiate identities, encourage collective memory, and reconcile trauma.","PeriodicalId":40908,"journal":{"name":"De Arte","volume":"56 1","pages":"52 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48411605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Narratological Perspective on Installation Art 装置艺术的叙事学视角

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De Arte Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2021.1986275

L. Combrink

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Elizabeth Goodall and Walter Battiss: Inspired by the Art on the Rocks 伊丽莎白·古德尔和沃尔特·巴蒂斯：岩石艺术的灵感

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De Arte Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/00043389.2021.2017118

Laura de Harde

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