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Book SynopsisItohan Osayimwese is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Brown University, USA
Trade ReviewGerman Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies provides welcome histories of German colonial art, architecture and visual culture while offering ground-breaking analyses of how contemporary and historic African and German stakeholders used such materials to forward their own agendas. * Steven Nelson, Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, USA *
This book produces a unique and highly informative understanding of the relationship between colonial architecture and urbanism. It persuasively demonstrates how architecture and the visual arts in Germany relied on the innate relationship between architecture, space, and race at the intersection of politics and economics. * - Volker Langbehn, Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature, San Francisco State University, USA *
Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Seeing and Building German Colonialism -
Itohan Osayimwese 1. From Travel to Colonialism: Art and the German Colonies -
Itohan Osayimwese 2. Water, its Presence and Absence in Settlements and Placemaking in Colonial Namibia -
Walter Peters 3. A Spatial Writing of the Earth: The Design of Colonial Territory in South-West Africa -
Hollyamber Kennedy 4. The Palace of King Njoya: Responding to Colonial Architecture -
Mark Dike DeLancey 5. Namibia’s Anti-Colonial Hero Hendrik Witbooi: Reflections from the Visual Arts -
Fabian Lehmann 6. On Mwangi Hutter’s Postcolonialism(s): From “Static Drift” to “One Ground” -
Brett M. Van Hoesen Bibliography Index
