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

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  • Making place for South Africans : rethinking urban conservation 
    Welsh, Catherine (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1996)
    An approach to conservation based on phenomenology recognises the human need to feel a sense of belonging both to society and to the environment and seeks to maintain those qualities of the cultural landscape which, as ...
  • Making present the absent other : anamnesis and the work of Kiefer, Boltanski, Cruise and Coetzee 
    Redelinghuys, Ian; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    It is possible that artists, in the making of memorials and monuments, might aid in the process of national healing after a traumatic national era or event. This, it is argued, is more likely to be achieved through the ...
  • Managing heritage in a contested space : the case of Le Morne Cultural Landscape in Mauritius 
    Bakker, Karel Anthonie; Odendaal, Francois (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The Le Morne Brabant Peninsula in south-western Mauritius is known for the imposing mountain of Le Morne that dominates the natural landscape. The peninsula is a contested place. During the time of slavery, the place was ...
  • The manifestations of African art in Le Corbusier’s architecture 
    Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    In spite of an emerging African Renaissance, there is still no associated urgency in defining architecture with an African identity. This article explores the claim, made by the African American architect, Melvin Mitchell, ...
  • A map and its copy of Governor Simon van der Stel's expedition to Namaqualand (1685): an enquiry into their visual values 
    Glatigny, Pascal Dubourg; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    This article deals with a VOC map and its copy by an anonymous French cartographer of Governor Simon van der Stel's expedition to Namaqualand in 1685. The original map of the journey, drawn between late 1685 and early ...
  • Market streets in South Africa’s informal settlements 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The African market street is unquestionably one of the most contested spaces in the built environment. It is a busy, crowded place shared by traders, pedestrians and vehicles, mostly minibus taxis. This phenomenon is ...
  • Marlene Dumas and the painting of (the) flesh 
    Crous, Marius (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Central to Marlene Dumas’s oeuvre is the depiction of human flesh in all its manifestations. By playing on the word “flesh” I will look at how she depicts children and nude adults in her work and to what extent the ...
  • A Marxist view of ruination: José Saramago’s fictional version of the construction of Dom João V’s monastic complex at Mafra, Portugal 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The subject of this article is the monastic complex at Mafra, Portugal, commissioned by Dom João V (King John V, 1689-1750). An overview of the historical circumstances of the building project is followed by José Saramago’s ...
  • Mary Stainbank and popular culture : images of the "i[n]digene" 
    Liebenberg-Barkhuizen, Estelle (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    In her experimental carvings, Mary Agnes Stainbank (1899 - 1996) depicted the South African indigene as subject matter. She continued its use in the popular cultural artefacts intended for mass production, which she made ...
  • Material, Motif and Memory 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Gottfried Semper’s contribution to modern (and contemporary) architecture has been inadequately explored. This is unfortunate, because Semper’s ideas on materiality and ‘artistic appearance’ (Semper 1989: 190) provide – ...
  • Materiality and the making of the Tswana house from the early nineteenth century to the present 
    Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This study explores the various factors that impacted on the materiality of the ntlo, the house of a married Tswana woman and her children, from the earliest recorded examples in the early nineteenth century, to the ...
  • Materiality and time in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) 
    Konik, Adrian; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    The focus of this article falls on the extent to which the digital time-images – or silicon-crystals – of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) function as a form of counterinformation within contemporary control society, ...
  • Max Ernst: "The hundred headless woman" and the eternal return 
    Janse van Rensburg, H.J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)
    Max Ernst often responded to the thought of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his art in the 1920's. This study approaches the collage-novel, "The Hundred Headless Woman", from the perspective of Nietzsche's concept ...
  • Mbilamutondo music and instruments in Venda culture 
    Mugovhani, Ndwamato George (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    There is a decline in the performance and promotion of one of the significant African cultural heritage components, "Mbilamutondo" music. This heritage is facing possible extinction, and its disappearance may spell the ...
  • Mediating between tradition and meaning in stained glass windows 
    Janse van Rensburg, Ariane (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The medieval church used stained glass windows to mediate between Latin scripture and the illiterate laity. Following the Reformation, Calvinist tradition avoided visual symbolism. In the Afrikaans Dutch Reformed Church, ...
  • Mediating public and private : three models of 'public space' 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is mindful of the increasingly complex mediations of public and private, and explores theoretical constructs gleaned from architectural thought and political theory, to derive ideas that are pertinent to our ...
  • Mediation through materiality in post-mediative practices 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article is based on a conference paper presented at the 2010 SAJAH Conference at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. It poses some questions ...
  • The medieval and Renaissance manuscripts of the Grey Collection catalogued 
    Steyn, Carol (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    The purpose of this article is twofold: to make known the publication of a comprehensive catalogue of the medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Grey Collection of the National Library, Cape Town, and to give an ...
  • Medieval perception of space and place in the architecture of Gothic churches 
    Lewis, John A.H. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Our appreciation of medieval church and cathedral architecture is reliably enhanced when we find contemporary indications of perception and cognition involved in the making of such works. Modern assumptions about these ...
  • Meetings with others: a critique of multiculturalism 
    Munro, Allan; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Multiculturalism can be celebrated from a positive perspective or criticized from a negative perspective. The postcolonial writings of Edward Said (1978) and Ziauddin Sardar (1998), although separated by some twenty years, ...