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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)This article presents Gerard Moerdijk’s response to the challenges posed by the legacy of Herbert Baker in South Africa, through, firstly, those aspects of an architecture derived from regional response, namely local style ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)This article discusses the means by which a visually creative, artistic language can imitate the communicative abilities of a written/spoken language, making it possible to "read" a work of art as a visual text. Comparing ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1996)Before attempting to evaluate the monastic complex at Batalha, known as Mosteiro da Santa Maria da Vitria, as a sacred place the author considers the expressive aim of Gothic cathedrals, of which this edifice exemplifies ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)In this article, I investigate the hypothesis that the notions of “the beautiful,” “the ugly,” and “the sublime” articulate the incompatible dimensions of what it means to live the kind of passionate life that most befits ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)Is it possible to articulate an aesthetic of the beautiful today, at a time when what Kundera’s character, Sabina, describes as the ‘uglification’ of the world, has become pervasive, on the one hand, and when, on the other, ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)This paper considers several examples of creative work specifically situated in the city of Venice as an amplification of otherness made apparent through the city’s metonymy of the physical body. This is an attempt to ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)Colonisation as an ongoing process continues to obfuscate the real identity of a culture “becoming” in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In writing about aspects of my arts practice I touch upon certain Hericlitean, Platonic, and ...
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(Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)The focus of this study is the angel in El Greco's "Burial of the Count of Orgaz". Art historians who have studied the Burial previously have not extracted the full meaning of this angel in their interpretations of it ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)Ceramic work has been characterised as the simplest and the most complex of all the arts, because it is elemental and abstract. No other nation has reached a higher level of development in ceramics than the Chinese. This ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)Industrial buildings and structures are not usually associated with the discipline of architecture but rather with civil engineering. However, industrial structures form an important part of the manmade landscape of the ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1993-11)Dit is die doel om aan te toon dat die bestudering van 'n voorwerp en die skepper daarvan vir die kultuurhistorikus of museumkundige insig in die periode waaruit daardie voorwerp dateer, kan meebring. Die omgekeerde, naamlik ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1992-11)
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)Picasso created a series of forty-four paintings based on "Las Meninas" by Velazquez. In these works he embarked on a Journey of exploration with regard to form, iconography and iconology. This article researches the ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)The purpose of this article is to examine two significant symbolic systems relevant to the meaning of angels in Christian art. In the first part, a brief overview of Christian angelology is given in order to contextualise ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)According to the Hebrew Bible, Moses, who led the Hebrew people out of Egypt, received the Tables of the Law directly from the Lord, God Yahweh, on Mount Sinai. During Moses’s absence on the mountain his brother, Aaron, ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)New media and cyberculture have become watchwords for the new millennium and the visual arts as field is undergoing revision and redefinition. Design history may in some instances be marginalized in the history of art, ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)This article focuses on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body and his explications of the body as mediator of the world. Merleau-Ponty's notion of the body which projects the cultural world around it by means ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)The "Museo La Specola" in Florence houses a large collection of anatomical waxes, an art developed in that city under the patronage of the Medici family in the 17th century for the purpose of teaching medicine. This article ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)According to Jung, everything is a manifestation of the psyche: thus the body in art is a manifestation of psyche, embodied in symbols. In the close link between body and mind, symbols relate to processes of human ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)The book entitled Beautiful Ugly. African and Diaspora Aesthetics (2006) was heralded by its editor as a beautiful book. ‘Beautiful’ it certainly is, in a manner of speaking. The correspondence set up between its description ...
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