Browsing Journals (South African Journal of Art History (SAJAH)) by Title

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  • Finding the best clay : experiences of rural potter Alice Gqa Nongebeza contextualised 
    Steele, John; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    When creating artefacts that belong in the material world artists choose specific raw materials for particular reasons, including that selected resources are accessible and well suited to fitness for purpose and expression ...
  • Flatness and immersion in Mariko Mori's Pureland: the possibility of a digital sublime 
    Raubenheimer, Landi (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The possibility of a "digital sublime" is investigated in this paper mainly as it may appear in a Cibachrome print entitled Pureland by Japanese artist Mariko Mori (Weintraub 2003). The pleasant appearance of the image ...
  • Flemish art theory in the second half of the 17th century : an investigation of an unexploited source 
    De Villiers, E.S. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1987-06)
    "The Golden Cabinet Of The Noble And Liberal Art Of Painting" was written in Flemish shortly before 1661 by the Antwerp rederijker, Cornelius de Bie. In this article it is discussed for the first time in the context of its ...
  • Florensky and Malevich : the image and materiality 
    Stupples, Peter; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Daniel Miller claims that artefacts essentially not only have material existence – size, shape, texture, weight, colour, the substance from which they are made – but also the human value placed upon them, the context in ...
  • For 'A Girl Asleep' by Jan Vermeer : the first movie 
    Gluskin, Emanuel (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    A love-story, in the form of a movie scenario, built around the impression formed by the painting “A Girl Asleep” (or “A Woman Asleep at Table”) by Johannes Vermeer, is presented.
  • Fortaleza de São Sebastião en die Kasteel de Goede Hoop : ’n historiese en vergelykende studie 
    Ferreira, O.J.O. (Ockert Jacobus Olivier), 1940-; Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    From the beginning of the 16th century Ilha de Moçambique [Mozambique Island] represented for the Portuguese the most important port of call in the Carreira da Índia, the round voyage between Portugal and India. After the ...
  • Fred Schimmel: artist : an introduction to his work 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1993-11)
    No abstract available
  • From "misery" to "disaster" : perceptions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century warfare in the etchings of Jacques Callot and Francisco Goya 
    Cornew, Clive (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)
    This article deals in the main with Jacques Callot's early life in Italy and with his later life in Lorraine where he produced his famous series of eighteen etchings which narrate his perception of seventeenth-century ...
  • From Bordeaux to Barcelona - Le Corbusier's creative journey that went unnoticed 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The evolution of Le Corbusier’s architecture from cuboid, slick and white forms, and the universality of Purism in the 1920s, to an earthy roughness, undeniabl[y] inspired by Mediterranean vernacular traditions after about ...
  • From flatness to centeredness : defining empathy in design and why nature is the best designer 
    Van Bergen, Jan Willem (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    In this article I will be elaborating a position first articulated by R. Buckminster Fuller. This position is that the geometry we rely on to inform and motivate our acts is central to our being in the world, and hence our ...
  • From ruination to renewal: the critical value of a proto-crystalline regime in German expressionist cinema 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, Gilles Deleuze maintains that cinematic time-images first emerged after World War Two against the backdrop of the ‘any-space-whatever’ reflected in Italian ...
  • From starlight to pixels ; the luminous world of artist Lily Yeh 
    Zanzot, Jocelyn E. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Grass-roots, community art is typically not discussed in terms of the sublime because it aims to alleviate not provoke feelings of terror or shock, regenerate rather than exploit the disturbing vastness of landscapes of ...
  • Gender, ideology and display 
    De Villiers Human, Suzanne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    A visual argument is put forward by means of the association of motifs related to the image of the Fool and its metaphorical meanings, like many mirrors reflecting into one another. This method of shaping [an] argument by ...
  • Geology and ruin as settlement generators in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur 
    Van der Vyver, Yolanda (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    When choosing a site for their colonial towns the Greeks favoured places that resembled the geological context of their native country, because they could adapt their familiar water management and town-planning practices ...
  • Geomantic mapping of the human body in Japanese landscape design 
    Van Tonder, Gert J.; Hare, Thomas (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Harmony between the forces of nature and human activity was of great concern throughout the history of Japan. The divination of these important forces were governed through a canon of geomantic landscape design principles ...
  • Gerard Moerdijk - death and memorializing in his architecture for the Afrikaner nationalist project 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The oeuvre of Gerard Moerdijk, as practitioner and self-proclaimed architect to the Afrikaner Nationalist Project, used the opportunity of the memorializing of deceased personages taken up in the epic narrative of Afrikaner ...
  • Gerard Moerdijk - the formative years 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Allen, N.P.L. (Nicholas P.L.); Mare, Estelle Alma; Steyn, Gerald; Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Group of South Africa, 2003)
    In this article Moerdijk's early architectual career is paralleled with the chronological sequence of texts that express his concerns with developing an authentic South African style. In these we discover those significant ...
  • Getting away with it 
    Taub, Myer (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This paper applies an appropriation of leveling, as a performance / performance art construct, in order to contribute to the dialogue between art and authority in the post-apartheid city of Johannesburg.
  • Globalisation, vernacularisasion and the invention of identities 
    Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Architects are adamant that academic qualifications are a prerequisite for design competence. It is therefore ironic that vernacular architecture is having a significant impact on contemporary architectural design ...
  • The greening of art : ecology, community and the public domain 
    Ross, Wendy (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Environmental degradation, pollution and poverty are said to be destroying most countries worldwide. This article responds to the need for the recognition of the role that ecologically-concerned art can play in environmental ...