Editorial

Fatima Cassim; Kyle Rath; Rory Du Plessis

Fatima Cassim Lecturer in Information Design, Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria.
Kyle Rath Lecturer in Information Design, Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria.
Rory Du Plessis Lecturer in Visual Culture Studies, Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria.

Abstract

This issue of Image & Text highlights some the new shifts and focus areas that have come to encompass the study of visual culture. While the first few decades of Image & Text predominated in content that sought to understand and interpret popular culture (see Lange 2012), the more recent issues of the journal contain content that engages in postcolonial readings of archival material and art historical works, opening up novel dimensions in understanding and probing the representations of identity, as well as providing an ongoing platform for design discourses.