List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Seeing and Building German Colonialism - Itohan Osayimwese1. From Travel to Colonialism: Art and the German Colonies - Itohan Osayimwese2. Water, its Presence and Absence in Settlements and Placemaking in Colonial Namibia - Walter Peters3. A Spatial Writing of the Earth: The Design of Colonial Territory in South-West Africa - Hollyamber Kennedy4. The Palace of King Njoya: Responding to Colonial Architecture - Mark Dike DeLancey5. Namibia’s Anti-Colonial Hero Hendrik Witbooi: Reflections from the Visual Arts - Fabian Lehmann6. On Mwangi Hutter’s Postcolonialism(s): From “Static Drift” to “One Ground” - Brett M. Van HoesenBibliographyIndex

German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies provides welcome histories of German colonial art, architecture and visual culture while offering ground-breaking analyses of how contemporary and historic African and German stakeholders used such materials to forward their own agendas.

Visual Cultures and German Contexts publishes innovative research into visual culture in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, as well as in diasporic linguistic and cultural communities outside of these geographic, historical, and political borders. The series invites scholarship by academics, curators, architects, artists, and designers across all media forms and time periods. It engages with traditional methods in visual culture analysis as well as inventive interdisciplinary approaches. It seeks to encourage a dialogue amongst scholars in traditional disciplines with those pursuing innovative interdisciplinary and intermedial research. Of particular interest are provocative perspectives on archival materials, original scholarship on emerging and established creative visual fields, investigations into time-based forms of aesthetic expression, and new readings of history through the lens of visual culture. The series offers a much-needed venue for expanding how we engage with the field of Visual Culture in general.Proposals for monographs, edited volumes, and outstanding research studies by established as well as emerging writers from a wide range of comparative, theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcome.Series EditorsDeborah Ascher Barnstone is Professor and Head of the school of Architecture, Design, and Planning at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is on the editorial board of The Art Journal of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand and has published widely in scholarly journals such as Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Architecture, and New German Critique. Recent monographs are: Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-1933 (2016) and The Break with the Past: Avant-garde Architecture in Germany, 1910–1925 (2018). Thomas O. Haakenson is Associate Professor in Critical Studies and Visual Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Oakland, USA. He serves as Vice President of the U.S. Fulbright Association's Chapter Advisory Board, as well as on the Advisory Board and on the Summer Workshop Program Committee for the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. He has been published widely, including in New German Critique, Cabinet, Rutgers Art Review, German Studies Review, and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism, Spectacle, Representations of German Identity as well as Memorialization in Germany Since 1945. Advisory Board MembersDonna West Brett, University of Sydney, AustraliaNina Lübbren, Anglia Ruskin University, UKPatrizia C. McBride, Cornell University, USAElizabeth Otto, University at Buffalo SUNY, USAAnnette F. Timm, University of Calgary, CanadaJames A. van Dyke, University of Missouri, USARandall Halle, University of Pittsburgh, USAChristophe Kone, Williams College, USAPaul Jaskot, Duke University, USAQinna Shen, Bryn Mawr College, USA