Browsing by Author "Van Eeden, Jeanne"

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  • Collecting South African art in the 1930s : the role of Martin du Toit 
    Van Eeden, Jeanne (Historical Association of South Africa, 2008-05)
    The first head of the Department of Afrikaans Art and Culture at the University of Pretoria in the 1930s was Professor Martin du Toit, a well-known figure in Afrikaner cultural circles. His vision for the new department ...
  • Gendered representations of fatherhood in contemporary South African church imagery from three Afrikaans corporate churches 
    Koenig-Visagie, Leandra Helena; Van Eeden, Jeanne (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-10-24)
    The South African secular media do not frequently portray men in parental roles; on the other hand, it seems that media and visual culture created by the Christian sector is more likely to engage with issues of fatherhood. ...
  • Irma Stern's first exhibition in Pretoria, 1933 
    Van Eeden, Jeanne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)
    This article focuses on the reception of Irma Stern's first art exhibition in Pretoria in 1933. Although Stern had by that time gained a considerable reputation as an artist in informed circles, her Modernist work was still ...
  • Land Rover and colonial-style adventure : the Himba advertisement 
    Van Eeden, Jeanne (Routledge, 2006-09)
    This article examines the infamous Land Rover 'Himba' advertisement (2000) that shocked South Africans because of its racism and sexism. The South African Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the advertisement ...
  • Picturing the road : automobility in selected South African postcards 
    Van Eeden, Jeanne (Routledge, 2012)
    This article considers two cultural products that appeared almost simultaneously at the end of the 19th century in South Africa – the motorcar and the picture postcard – in terms of their joint avowal of technological ...
  • South African Railways Postcard Calendars, 1961 to 1984 
    Van Eeden, Jeanne (Routledge, 2014)
    This article focuses on a series of postcard calendars produced by the South African Railways (SAR) between 1961 and 1984. As a state-owned organisation, the SAR played a decisive role in conceptualising the metanarratives ...
  • A study in purple : the Jacaranda city in postcards 
    Van Eeden, Jeanne (University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2015)
    White settlement in the Pretoria region started in 1855, and this small market town on the periphery of the British Empire played an increasingly important role in South African politics as the capital of the Transvaal ...