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

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  • Narrative portrait photography and South African collector culture 
    Hattingh, Heidi Saayman; Minkley, Hannah; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This research involves an investigation into narrative portrait photography as an engagement with South African collector culture. Increasingly, contemporary photography projects concentrating on the documenting of the ...
  • Narrative shifts in architecture 
    Raman, Pattabi G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Attend a guided tour of the new Constitutional Court building in Johannesburg. At some stage or other the well-trained and polite guide will ask you whether you have seen any court building like this. Then, listen to the ...
  • "Natural Born Killers", violence and contemporary culture 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    This article focuses on Oliver Stone's controversial film, "Natural Born Killers", in an attempt to determine the relationship between its use of multiform images and viewers' reception of the film. Specifically, the ...
  • Nature and design: thoughts on sources and subjects 
    Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article takes the theme ‘Is nature the best designer?’ and, in order to show that nature was historically and remains today a viable, valid and relevant source of design, particularly surface and pattern design, looks ...
  • Nek Chand's rock garden and Le Corbusier in Chandigarh : reconsidering the primitive 
    Jackson, Iain; Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This paper is concerned with two personalities, Le Corbusier and Nek Chand, occupying, as it would appear, the extreme polarities of the creative spectrum, yet sharing the same geographic space of artistic production. ...
  • Neuroscience and the artist's mind 
    Stupples, Peter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is a heuristic attempt to put art back into nature by trying to understand the biological basis of mind and its relation to the world. This relationship is negotiated at a physiological level by primary consciousness ...
  • Nihilism in Japanese Anime 
    Olivier, Marco (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    In this article I try to show that one can use a conceptual framework on different kinds of nihilism, borrowed from Nietzsche, to understand certain themes in Japanese animated film, known as anime. First it is shown that ...
  • Norman Catherine and the art of terror 
    Jamal, A. (Ashraf) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    This essay was originally commissioned by Linda Givon of the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. The first movement - "Escape and Resolution" - served as the preface for the first major retrospective on the artist, published ...
  • On the question of architecture and identity, in post-apartheid South Africa 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Considerations as to personal and group identity seem to be everywhere these days, in the national news, in the latest pop/rap video and with respect to the very clothes that we choose to wear. Significantly, in ...
  • On ‘beauty’ : flowers in postmodern art 
    Lategan, Anita; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    In this article, Umberto Eco’s definitions of beauty from his recent publication, On Beauty: a history of a western idea (2004), are used to examine a selection of postmodern artworks that depict flowers either as ...
  • Opleiding van argitektuurhistorici in Suid-Afrika 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1987-06)
    Die problematiese aard van argitektuur in Suid-Afrika wat in 'n krisis- en oorgangsfase verkeer, moet nagegaan word, want met die oog op die toekoms sal die praktyk deurslaggewend wees vir navorsers. Voorlopig sou mens kon ...
  • The origins of art : an archaeological or a philosophical problem? 
    Avital, Tsion (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    During our century the demarcation lines between art and non-art have become vague to the extent that the continuation of art as a valuable component of culture is questionable. The history of art and aesthetics has so ...
  • Out of the musical box 
    Mendoza, Marisela; Halion, Simon; Quek, Raymond (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The present paper explores the correlations of music and architecture through a design studio project carried out by second year students of the Architecture programme at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. ...
  • Paradigmatiese verskuiwings in die Suid-Afrikaanse kunsgeskiedskrywing 
    Hagg, Gerard (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1987)
    Twee kunshistoriese metodes word bespreek. "Kanonisering" beklemtoon die kunstenaar as geisoleerd van sy omgewing en as 'n voorbeeld van ideologiese of estetiese voorkeure van groepe wat strewe na dominansie. Coert Steynberg ...
  • Paradoks van begrip as grondslag van kreatiwiteit en kuns as 'n simbool daarvan 
    Engel, E.P. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1991-11-08)
    Die metodologiese krisis in die Kunsgeskiedenis kan op die rekening van die eensydigheid van navorsingsmetodes geplaas word. Aan die hand van 'n ontleding van enkele werke van J.H. Pierneef word die binere en paradoksale ...
  • The paradoxes of art 
    Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Art’s paradoxical character lends itself to being elaborated upon by identifying several paradoxes at the heart of it. This goes for all of the arts – architecture, painting, sculpture, dance, music, literature and cinema. ...
  • Passionate living and truth-telling techné 
    Hurst, Andrea (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    It is a commonplace among philosophers that we actualize our humanity most fully by “living a creative life,” and that creativity is the response to desire or passion. In this article, I argue that Plato’s “cave allegory,” ...
  • Past imperfect: future tense. The response of art in a time of crisis 
    Hoffie, Pat (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This essay examines the effects of ‘global terrorism’ in terms of former terrorisms and questions the extent to which contemporary art can offer an appropriate fulcrum for reconsideration of the impact of such regimes on ...
  • A pattern language as a tool for studying African urbanism using Malindi, Kenya, as a case-study 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    There is unquestionably an urgent need to study African urban entities, but the most appropriate method remains a controversial issue. This article was motivated by a speculative question: Could A pattern language (Alexander ...
  • The perceptual totality of group design in sacred Classical Greek architecture : the approach and the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and the Panathenaic Way, the Propylaea and the temples on the Athenian Acropolis 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    It is the contention of this research to explain the perceptual totality of composed groups of Classical Greek buildings in sacred precincts, as exemplified at Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis. The main proposal to be ...