The appropriation of an icon: Guernica, remade

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Carol Hofmeyr at the Keiskamma Art Project for allowing me to reproduce the Keiskamma Guernica here. I would also like to thank the Conversations Editors, Natália Maria Félix de Souza and Catia C. Confortini, for their guidance and support.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes on contributor

Alister Wedderburn is the John Vincent Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations at the Australian National University.

ORCID

Alister Wedderburn http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6328-2231

Notes

1 For the sake of clarity, I use the anglicized spelling “Guernica” to refer to the painting and the Basque spelling “Gernika” to refer to the town.

2 As Judith Butler among others have argued, mourning is in and of itself a political act (Butler 2000, 2004, 2010; cf. Honig 2013).

3 The Keiskamma Guernica is currently on display at the Red Location Museum in Port Elizabeth.