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

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  • 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 ...
  • Perspectival parody in Hogarth's "Satire on false perspective" 
    Cornew, Clive (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 2000)
    The viewer of Hogarth's "Satire on false perspective" notices many instances of perspectival parody in the picture. Taken as a whole, his picture may be regarded as an emblem for viewing Hogarth's picaresque view of the ...
  • Pictorial textuality : the imaginative reading of pictures 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)
    The notion of multiple, concurrent readings is used to explore the status of pictorial textuality as a model for the art of painting. Being encapsulations of materiality, visuality, artefactuality and narrativity, paintings ...
  • Pikturale wendingsfigure in pikareske narratiewe (Part 1) 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1992-11)
    Die redenasie word met behulp van woord-beeldinteraksies gevoer. Eers word enkele narratologiese begrippe verduidelik aan die hand van bevatlike items uit die massakommunikasiemedia. Daarna word die lees van pikturale ...
  • Pikturale wendingsfigure in pikareske narratiewe (Part 2) 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1992-11)
    Die redenasie word met behulp van woord-beeldinteraksies gevoer. Eers word enkele narratologiese begrippe verduidelik aan die hand van bevatlike items uit die massakommunikasiemedia. Daarna word die lees van pikturale ...
  • Play as a creative factor in the visual arts : a hermeneutical reflection 
    Janse van Vuuren, Lukas M. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article demonstrates in a hermeneutical context how the interrelation between play, "mimesis" and fiction contribute to the interactive making and interpretation of visual art works. A theoretical model is employed ...
  • Playing with the image : in conversation with Margaret Roberts 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
  • Political imaginings in the visual art of South African Indians 
    Moodley, Nalini (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    During times of pain, trauma and disempowerment, the creative field of fine art affords an opportunity for communication and self-empowerment. In the 1980s, which was one of the most turbulent decades in South Africa’s ...
  • The political significance of patina as materialised time 
    Konik, Adrian; Konik, Inge; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    With reference to Grant McCracken’s seminal work on the eclipse of patina through consumerism, this article investigates the compensatory dynamics of contemporary consumption practices centred on novel items rather than ...
  • The political significance of ‘presentism’ in Annaud’s 'The Name of the Rose' (1984) 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Against the backdrop of Laclau and Mouffe’s perspectives on radical democracy, this article focuses on the way in which the phenomenon of ‘presentism’, or the retrospective historical projection of the axiology of the ...
  • The pool of the psyche : water in the work of Ariana van Heerden and Kevin Roberts 
    Stevens, Ingrid; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Water is a material which pervades the earth and is the source of all life, the fons et origo (Cirlot 1971: 365). Humans are seventy percent water and it occupies seventy percent of the earth’s surface. As a substance ...
  • Pornography, erotica, cyberspace and the work of two female artists 
    Grobler, Andrea; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article examines pornography and erotica as categories of representation, in which cultural and societal constructions and constrictions define the female body as passive and ‘other’ in relation to the male body. ...
  • The porous city as a model for urban renewal 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    In 1924 Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis described the environs and architecture of Naples as “porous”, explaining that its built environment resists any fixed or designated functionality. Their description reminds one of ...
  • The portrayal of slimness through design : an analysis of a misleading weight loss advertisement 
    De Lange, Rudi W; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    The portrayal of the ultra-thin ideal model in the media contributes to body discontent amongst some viewers of the intended target groups. This in its turn may lead to excessive weight concerns and so create a vulnerable ...