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

In: AIDS and South Africa: the Social Expression of a Pandemic

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  • Marilyn Martin

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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.

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  • Marilyn Martin, 2004. "HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Can the Visual Arts Make a Difference?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kyle D. Kauffman & David L. Lindauer (ed.), AIDS and South Africa: the Social Expression of a Pandemic, chapter 6, pages 120-135, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52351-7_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523517_6
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