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Journal articles and book chapters

Kearney, A. (2022) Infinite Mirror: Reflections on Wayne Barker’s Strategies of Appropriation. Critical Arts. 

 

Kearney, A. (2021a) ‘Materiality and Meaning’ in Seen, Heard and Valued: WAM Celebrates 40 Years of the Standard Bank African Art Collection, edited by Nettleton, A.C.E. and Charlton, J. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum, pages 234-239.

 

Kearney, A. (2021b) ‘Confronting the Museum: Artists’ Interventions as Critique’ in Museum Futures, edited by Leonhard Emmerling, L. Gupta, L. Proença and M. Biwa.  Austria: Turia and Kant, pages 472- 487.

Dison, L. and Kearney, A. (2021c) Trends in teaching and learning research in South African schools, in Maringe, F. Ed. Systematic Reviews of Research in Basic Education in South Africa. Stellenbosch: SUN Media, pages 145- 166.

 

Kearney, A. (2021d) Beyond the Everyday: Subtle forms of resistance in the work of Usha Seejarim. Third Text, 35 (5). 

 

Kearney, A. (2019) Trace and fracture: Legacies of the ‘readymade’ in contemporary South African art in Atteridge, J. and Rydstrand, H. Eds. (2019) Modernist Work: Labour, Aesthetics and the Avant-Garde. London: Bloomsbury.

 

Kearney, A. (2018) Beyond the Readymade: Exhibition catalogue. Johannesburg, Wits Art Museum. (Peer reviewed).

 

Kearney, A. (2017) Art history is dead; long live art history! de Arte 52 (3). London and Pretoria: Taylor and Francis and Unisa Press.

 

Kearney, A. (2016) Dismantling dichotomies: Alan Alborough’s material conceptualism, Image &Text, Issue 28, pages 59-75. Pretoria: University of Pretoria Press. ISSN-1020-1497.

 

Kearney, A. and Blanckenberg, L. (2015) Putting theory into practice: developing the Wits Art Museum Education resources in Nettleton, A.C.E. and de Becker, L. Eds. (2015) Activate / Captivate: Engaging the Wits Art Museum Collection, pages 65- 81. Johannesburg: Wits university press.

 

Kearney, A. (2013) The framing of objects in Siopis’ Sympathetic Magic, de Arte 48 (2), pages 46- 62. Pretoria: Unisa Press. ISSN-0004-3389.

 

Kearney, A. (2006) ‘The Unseen: A Visual Essay’ in Orr, M., Rorich, M and Dowling, F. (Eds.) The Wits Wonder Woman Book: Buttons and Breakfasts Johannesburg, Wits University Press.

 

Education materials 

1.           Kearney, A., Charlton, J., Rankin-Smith, F., Nettleton, A.C.E., and Naran, K. (2022) TenX10: 100 Women and Gender Diverse Artists at WAM Education                 Resource. Johannesburg, Wits Art Museum.

2.           Kearney, A. (2021c) Seen, Heard, Valued: An Education Resource About Art Collections and the Role of the Art Museum. Johannesburg, Wits Art Museum.

3.           Kearney, A. (2019) Leeto: A Sam Nhlengethwa Print Making Retrospective Education Resource. Johannesburg, Wits Art Museum.

4.           Kearney, A. (2018) Beyond the Readymade: Education Resource. Johannesburg, Wits Art Museum.

5.           Kearney, A. (2017) Andy Warhol: Unscreened Education Resource. Johannesburg, Wits Art Museum.

6.           Kearney, A. (2016) I invented myself: the five lives of Walter Battiss Education Resource. Johannesburg, Wits Art Museum.

7.           Kearney, A. and Leyde, L. (2015) Beadwork, Art and the Body: Dilo tse Dintshi Education Resource. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum.

8.           Kearney, A. edited by Blanckenberg, L. (2014) Doing Hair Education Resource. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum.

9.           Kearney, A. (2013) Ngezinyawo: Migrant Journeys Education Resource. Johannesburg: Wits Art Museum.

 

Other publications

      Estelle McDowall, Leandra Koenig-Visagie, Leana van der Merwe, Obakeng Kgongoane & Alison Kearney (2021) Editorial, de arte, 56:1, 1-4. 

 

   Kearney, A. (2020) In the world: Essays on Contemporary South African Art by Ashraf Jamal: A book review. de Arte 55 (1). London and Pretoria:       Taylor and Francis and Unisa Press. 

 

Kearney, A. (2014) Entry on Penny Siopis in the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com/public/book/oao_benz