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

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  • Kentridge, Mozart, Namibia...Black Box / Chambre Noir in Berlin Guggenheim 
    Geldenhuys, Daniel G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    The article deals with Black Box/Chambre Noir by William Kentridge, an art creation consisting of a miniature mechanized theatre, which had as commissioned work been exhibited at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. The ...
  • Keuringsverslag 
    Du Preez, Amanda (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    Keuringsverslag ten opsigte van Bert Olivier se artikel "'Natural Born Killers', violence and contemporary culture" wat op p. 48 van dieselfde joernaal verskyn.
  • Khachaturyan in Armenia today : his presence in Armenian music, art and architecture, rooted in Socialist Realism 
    Steyn, Carol (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Aram Il’ich Khachaturyan was born in Tblisi, Georgia, and spent most of his life in Moscow, but when one visits Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, today, Khachaturyan is all around you. His music, itself steeped in Armenian ...
  • Kieslowski's "Three Colours 'Blue', 'White' and 'Red'" : the colours of life 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    This article is an art-philosophical interpretation of Kieslowski's film trilogy, "Blue", "White" and "Red", in terms of Gadamer's distinction among the three hermeneutic activities of understanding, interpretation and ...
  • Kitsch and contemporary culture 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    This paper addresses the question of kitsch by interpreting it as "bad" art of a particular kind. It draws mainly, but not exclusively, on Karsten Harries's phenomenological exploration of kitsch to provide a framework ...
  • Konferensieverslag: "Tendense van tagtig; teoriee en praktyke in die kunsgeskiedenis" (RGN, 7 Oktober 1989) 
    Van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark; Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)
    In 'n tyd wat 'n mens aanhoudend dwing om standpunt in te neem, is daar behoefte aan gesprekke oor tendense. Sulke besinnings is hulpmiddels om tot 'n posisiebepaling te kom binne die netwerk van verhoudings waarin 'n mens ...
  • Konseptuele kunstenaar Willem Boshoff se geheime briewe aan Nelson Mandela 
    Swanepoel, M.C. (Rita); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (gebore 1918) word wêreldwyd gerespekteer as politieke vryheidsikoon en ‘n geliefde leier bekend as Madiba. Mandela was 27 jaar in die tronk op Robbeneiland, in Pollsmoor en Victor Verster nadat ...
  • Kulturele vooronderstellings : die debat Eurosentrisme versus Afrosentrisme 
    Van Rensburg, Frans I.J. (Francois Izak Janse) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1993-11)
    No abstract available
  • Kyk na Nel Erasmus se "Jazz Baby/Spent Autumn" as die lewe van vorme 
    Theron, Antoinette L. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1992-11)
    Henri Focillon beskryf die dinamiek van kunswerke in terme van onderskeie vormdimensies. Sy benadering word as 'n orientasie beskou waarvolgens Nel Erasmus se werk "Jazz Baby/Spent Autumn" geinterpreteer kan word.
  • The Lamu house - an East African architectural enigma 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    Lamu is a living town off the Kenya coast. It was recently nominated to the World Heritage List. The town has been relatively undisturbed by colonization and modernization. This study reports on the early Swahili dwelling, ...
  • Landscape art and the territorial ontology : a call for landscape restitution 
    Goodrich, Andre; Strydom, Richardt; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Ingold has used Marx’s distinction between exchange value and use value to distinguish between land and landscape. Land, Ingold suggests, is abstracted, quantitative and interchangeable. Landscape, by contrast, is ...
  • Landskapwerelde van Nico Roos 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1991-11-08)
    No abstract available.
  • Langa township in the 1920s – an (extra)ordinary garden suburb 
    Coetzer, Nicholas (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Langa, Cape Town’s oldest black African township, was initially designed as a Garden Suburb aimed at re-housing residents of Ndabeni, Cape Town’s first ‘location’. Its failure – its lack of a bucolic English village aesthetic ...
  • Le Corbusier and the human body 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Le Corbusier (1887-1965), the famous Swiss-French artist, architect and town planner – celebrated as he is – is also widely criticised for allegedly dehumanising cities, ignoring the dignity of the individual and for ...
  • Le Corbusier's carpet projects on the French Coast - the continuous quest towards creating formulae for better place making 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Whereas the merit of Le Corbusier’s Unites d’Habitation is still contentious, his contemporaneous unbuilt housing schemes on the French Coast are praised for their sensitivity towards history, climate and their sites, as ...
  • Le Corbusier’s research-based design approaches 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The ability to convincingly demonstrate the integration of and reciprocal dynamic between research and product in design assignments is now a prerequisite at most institutions of architectural learning. Due to the creative ...
  • Le Corbusier’s town-planning ideas and the ideas of history 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Since Le Corbusier so forcefully propagated a new urban and architectural dispensation, there is a misconception that he disregarded history and that he conceptualised projects rationally and without preconceived ideas. ...
  • A legacy of rondavels and rondavel houses in the northern interior of South Africa 
    Naude, Mauritz (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The rondavel has become synonymous with the settlements of the black people of South Africa but has also become a characteristic building type of European (white) folk building in white vernacular architecture. Although ...
  • Leonardo da Vinci’s architectural designs as thought experiments: the sources and influence of his ideas 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    It is argued that Leonardo da Vinci’s architectural designs are uniquely original due to his ability to connect ideas derived from a wide range of sources and his own empirical researches. This attempt at understanding ...
  • Less is more or less more: perceptual health in minimalist design 
    Van Tonder, Gert J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The saying by Ludwig van der Rohe, that "less is more", has become a well-known truism about the supposed superiority of minimalism over other design forms, especially decorative compositions. Here, the avenues of ugliness, ...