• DOI:10.2979/TRANSITION.116.130
• Corpus ID: 154241514

Nelson Mandela’s Two Bodies

@article{Nelson2014NelsonMT,
  title={Nelson Mandela’s Two Bodies},
  author={Steven G. Nelson},
  journal={Transition},
  year={2014},
  volume={116},
  pages={130 - 142}
}

• Steven G. Nelson
• Published 16 November 2014
• Art, Political Science
• Transition

Addressing the ubiquity of images of Nelson Mandela, art historian Steven Nelson suggests that these pictures allow the viewer to enter into a space of hope and reconciliation for which Mandela has come to stand, even as they risk obscuring our view of the real Mandela