Irma Stern, a major South African artist, is a woman whose personality, life and work cannot easily be separated. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Dr Marion Arnold explores Stern's fifty-year career and evaluates its significance.
Born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke in the Transvaal Republic, Stern spent her formative years in Germany where her vision was shaped by German culture and Modernist practice. She settled in Cape Town in 1920 and her stylistic innovations shocked a conservative provincial public, but when she died in 1966 her contribution to South African art was undisputed.
Her extensive oeuvre encapsulates the white South African dilemma of acknowledging a European cultural heritage and an African environment. She saw Africa through a lens of expectation and romaticized the people and places she encountered in her extensive travels.
156 pages.
Condition: boards, binding and contents in excellent condition: very light mottling/foxing to both free end-papers and title-page, otherwise fine. Jacket: light edge creasing, marking, rubbing.
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