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

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  • Iconic bodies: Ndebele women in ritual context 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Ndebele women of South Africa have become prominent visual artworks in the international world of commodity tourism and African art. Pictures of women clad in ritual beadwork against the backdrop of their art on homestead ...
  • Ideas of space from Isaac Newton to Etienne-Louis Boullee 
    Terzoglou, Nikolaos-Ion (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    This paper aims to prove that a fertile dialogue between architectural history and the history of ideas can open interesting perspectives for the understanding of the process of design. This dialogue, offering a reconstruction ...
  • Identity in architecture and art : Versailles, Giverny and Gyeongju 
    Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper explores the different “identities” projected by the palace and gardens of Versailles, the house and garden of Claude Monet in Giverny (France), and Mount Namsan in (South) Korea. It is argued that the palace ...
  • Images and mediation 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper focuses on the question of mediation via images. Its point of departure is the work of Kant on the mediation of human reality by the faculty of reason, including imagination and the forms of space and time, ...
  • In search of an appropriate research methodology for investigating traditional African architecture 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    Africa's building traditions are under threat. There is a real need to subject them to rigorous scientific investigation to support conservation and explore indigenous knowledge systems. But the taxonomy is still immature ...
  • In search of architecture in virtual space: an introduction to "The Virtual Space Theory" 
    Ettlinger, Or (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Over the last decades, the terms 'virtual' and 'virtual space' have come to take an increasingly central part in our culture. Yet, they seem to acquire very different meanings in the various contexts in which they are used ...
  • The indigenous rondavel – a case for conservation 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    Open living areas and cattle pens surrounded by thatched round huts, commonly referred to as rondavels, is the form generally associated with traditional South African architecture. The number of rondavels is, ...
  • The influence of "botho" on social space in Botswana since independence 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Since independence, Botswana has developed from one of the poorest countries in the world to a middle-income country. In spite of rapid urbanisation and global capitalism, the ideology and philosophy of social interaction ...
  • The influence of the dominance of cultures on artefacts : two case studies – Cordoba, Spain, and Blood River, South Africa 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Conflicts that took place almost three centuries apart – respectively in late medieval Spain and nineteenth-century South Africa – are described in some detail. The Spanish example offers insight into the effect of the ...
  • Information world of visual artists 
    Gericke, Elizabeth M.; Van Zijl, Carol (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    The information world of South African visual artists was investigated. It was found that artists need a variety of information sources. The most pressing problems are a lack of information about local artists, lack of ...
  • Intangible and tangible landscapes : an anthropological perspective based on two South African case studies 
    Muller, Liana (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The relationship between landscape and culture, or landscape and memory, is a developing discourse in anthropological and other cross-disciplinary fields in recent years. During the late nineties, tangible and intangible ...
  • Inter se nulli fines : representations of the presence of the Khoikhoi in early colonial maps of the Cape of Good Hope 
    Glatigny, Pascal Dubourg; Mare, Estelle Alma; Viljoen, Russel Stafford (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This paper deals with early cartographic representations (both cosmographic and chorographic) of the presence of Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope. While the boundaries of the Dutch settlement at Table Bay and the land ...
  • Interarts practices ; the roles of drawing ; and implications for Art History 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    This article is based on the experience of an art historian-theorist working within the context of a tertiary school of fine arts dedicated to the integration of studio practice and art history-theory. Such integration ...
  • Interconnectedness and process in Cleone Cull’s visual art 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This paper is an interpretation of the recent work of the Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth artist, Cleone Cull, through what one might call a ‘close looking’ at the works in question (that would parallel ‘close reading’ of ...
  • Interpretative violence and Jacques Derrida’s professed love of ruins 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In this paper I examine two texts by Jacques Derrida, written at the beginning of 1990s, his “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority” and Memoirs of the Blind: The Self Portrait and Other Ruins written on the ...
  • Interpreting images from South African family photographic collections of the Anglo-Boer War period 1899 to 1902 
    Du Toit, Flip; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Photography’s truth telling technology enticed early photographers to capture images of war such as the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Many of these images include family photographic collections that were taken in and around ...
  • The intricacy of intangible cultural heritage: some perspectives on Ndebele earthen architecture 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Intangible heritage has become a discourse both in the institutionalised heritage domain and in the academic world. This article dismantles the concept, deconstructs existing mythologies, and illuminates some of the core ...
  • Invisible cities and primed spectators 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    This essay discusses the extraordinary travelling exhibition mounted by Alan Alborough as Standard Bank Young Artist of 2000. Reviewing its interaction with the art world's museum and art systems, an attempt is also made ...
  • 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 ...
  • Is figurative representation arbitrary? A re-examination of the conventionalist view of art 
    Avital, Tsion (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 2000)
    This essay attempts to refute the conventionalist aspect of Nelson Goodman's theory of representation that is still one of the most influential theories of aesthetics in our time. However, the primary aim of this essay is ...