An unattributed poster in the Historical Papers Research Archive in the University of the Witwatersrand’s William Cullen Library reads: “Archives, whether spaces or records, are continually transforming and shifting in meaning. They are fundamentally political in nature and as such are mediated sites of power, ideology and memory.
Her teaching became the catalyst that fuelled her to write the first volume of her illustrated, biographical dictionary and encyclopedia,When the Dutch publisher AA Belkman turned down the request to compile her lectures into a book, Berman was encouraged to travel around South Africa to conduct original research on the country’s artists.
The historian’s daughter, Kathy Berman, says: “My mother and I had such an antagonistic relationship. I was progressive and she had this colonial mentality. It was a white history. Her criteria for selection was very clear. The artists she would write about all had to have been publicly exhibited. That was her cut off.I first encountered Kathy Berman during a talk she hosted at the Strauss & Co offices last year.
When her mother returned to South Africa from Los Angeles in 2002, Kathy moved into the secluded complex where she currently resides. After talks with archivist Gabriele Mohale, Kathy saw it fit to donate what her mother left behind to the William Cullen Library’s Historical Papers Research Archive.
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