Glossary

The Avant-Garde Era – is considered to be an art movement which is along the lines of modernism. Thought to have begun around the 1850s influenced by Gustave Courbet, a French painter.

W.E.B, DuBois – William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist and civil right’s activist that was known as a Pan-Africanist (worldwide movement that aimed and still aims to encourage and strengthen unity of all people of African descent). He has written multiple books about racism and African heritage, such as The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction.

Contemptuous – scornful/the feeling that a person is worthless or beneath consideration.

Self-actualisation – the fulfilment of talents and abilities.

Superimposed – layered over something but with both objects still being visible. (“As the scale changes, layers of time are superimposed”)

Perceptual – becoming aware of a situation with help from your senses. (“a witness ready to change testimony at the slightest perceptual provocation.”)

Glut – large supply of something. (“All of us are now sure that the glut of history, rumour and evidence…”)

Intrinsic – essential/necessary. (“The wall itself has no intrinsic esthetic”)

Sporadically – occasionally/sometimes. (“This suggestion is made only sporadically through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”)