The appropriation of an icon: Guernica, remade

dc.contributor.authorWedderburn, Alister
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-03T03:32:06Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2019-11-25T07:38:52Z
dc.description.abstractBetween 2009 and 2010, a women’s community organisation in the Eastern Cape of South Africa wove a tapestry based on Pablo Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica. The work repurposes the aesthetic vocabulary of Picasso’s iconic painting, applying it to the group’s experiences of the ongoing AIDS epidemic. Rooted in the everyday practice of the women responsible for weaving it, the tapestry offers a layered, complex response to the gendered politics of national and international HIV/AIDS governance, mediated through a craft and trade that is itself gendered. This article offers a brief account of the tapestry’s creation, situating it within the wider context of the Mbeki administration’s doubts regarding the efficacy of antiretroviral drugs. It then draws attention to a specific feature of the tapestry, namely the bull, and asks how the tapestry’s appropriation of Picasso’s visual language enables it to produce, bear, and convey meaning about the AIDS crisis as experienced by women in Hamburg.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1461-6742en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/202021
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Groupen_AU
dc.rights© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Groupen_AU
dc.sourceInternational Feminist Journal of Politicsen_AU
dc.titleThe appropriation of an icon: Guernica, remadeen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage487en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage480en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationWedderburn, Alister, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidWedderburn, Alister, u1044256en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160607 - International Relationsen_AU
local.identifier.absseo940399 - International Relations not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB3562en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume21en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/14616742.2019.1598778en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85068091041
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu3102795en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.routledge.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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