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documenta fifteen in Kassel 2022 produced conflicts and scandals in Germany. But what is the international response to this "world art exhibition"? This book presents reflections, interpretations and personal experiences of documenta fifteen by artists, scholars and art educators from Africa and Europe: academically inclined or personal reflections, but always providing an insider's glimpse of this major art event.
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documenta fifteen in Kassel 2022 produced conflicts and scandals in Germany. But what is the international response to this "world art exhibition"? This book presents reflections, interpretations and personal experiences of documenta fifteen by artists, scholars and art educators from Africa and Europe: Academically inclined or personal reflections, but always providing an insider's glimpse of this major art event.
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Bernadette Van Haute was Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Music at the University of South Africa (retired in 2022). She studied Ethnic Art in Belgium and wrote her Master's dissertation on selected art of Central Africa. Her Doctoral thesis focused on a monograph and catalogue raisonné of the Flemish artist David III Ryckaert (2000, Brepols). Van Haute also published a book on 17th century Flemish paintings in public collections in South Africa (2006, Unisa Press). Her research interests include the representation of Africa in the art of the 17th-century Netherlands; African modernism and contemporary art in Africa.
