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

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  • Van Brandenburg unfurled: architecture in the expanded field of contemporary practice 
    Schmidt, Leoni; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article considers a current project undertaken by Architecture Van Brandenburg in Shenzhen, China. Locating, touching, mimicking, integrating, crafting, unfurling and exhibiting are subheadings used to discuss salient ...
  • Venster op die stad 
    Van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1991-11-08)
    Ons kyk daagliks na die stad, maar wat sien ons? Dit maak nogal saak wie die 'ons' is wat na die stad kyk en hoe ons kyk, wat ons eie lewensgeskiedenisse en wat ons uitsigte op die lewe is. Vreemdes sien die stad aansienlik ...
  • Victorian domestic interiors as subliminal space 
    Karusseit, Catherine (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The Victorian notion of beauty was encapsulated in their obsession with the ideology of respectability. Respectability, a complex combination of moral, religious, economic and cultural systems,was organised around an ...
  • Vincent Van Gogh : op die spoor van die waarheid 
    Smuts, Timo (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1991-11-08)
    Die lewe en werk van Van Gogh is al uit soveel perspektiewe betrag dat produktiewe beweging in enige diskoers oor sy werk bykans onmoontlik lyk. In die artikel word enkele poststrukturalistiese strategiee gebruik in 'n ...
  • Visual evidence of self-inscriptions of identity by marginalised communities in Mitchell’s Plain, South Africa 
    Hibbert, Liesel; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This article presents a selection of photographs as evidence of community engagement at the local level, in an area near Cape Town which is heavily stigmatised. Press posters, public signage and linguistically visible ...
  • Visualising the merging of culture from an ‘other’ perspective 
    Keogh, Sarah; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper reflects on the challenges of cultural identity in an increasingly globalised society. As the individual questions their identity within a surge of globalisation, and with it a dominant Western viewpoint, so ...
  • Vorm-funksie-verband van Hindoetempels in Johannesburg 
    Schmidt, Leoni; Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1987-06)
    In hierdie artikel word daar gekonsentreer op die beskrywing en interpretering van twee Hindoetempels in Johannesburg. Die twee tempels is geselekteer vir bespreking as synde verteenwoordigend van alternatiewe in die ...
  • Walking in the city as (model for) “dissensus” 
    Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper explores the variegated spatial meanings of “the city” by way of Michel de Certeau’s reflections on “walking in the city” as part of “the practice of everyday life”, which he conceives of as allowing people ...
  • The “wall of flesh” of the Conquered Territory : farmhouses and towns established in defence of the eastern boundary of the Orange Free State, beginning 1866 
    Peters, Walter; Du Preez, J.L.; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    To defend the sovereignty of the Conquered Territory along the eastern frontier of the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State (OFS) and Basutoland (Lesotho), the government of the former passed the Occupation Act, 1866, ...
  • The waning of socio-political relevance in the graphic design associated with popular alternative music among Afrikaans-speaking youths 
    Verster, Willem C; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Graphic design often influences and reflects the subcultures of society. This was evident in graphic design associated with popular music during the 1960s and 1970s which captured the spirit of its time. The album covers ...
  • Werdmuller centre – an artifact of an ephemeral context 
    Wolff, Ilze (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Cape Town’s Werdmuller Centre, an iconic modernist building designed by renowned architect, urbanist and teacher, Roelof Uytenbogaardt, is under threat of demolition. A questionable Heritage Impact Assessment conducted in ...
  • West African influence on various projects by Le Corbusier 
    Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article contributes to the renewed interest in Le Corbusier by exploring a proposition by the African American architect and scholar, Melvin Mitchell, that West African art and architecture had a decisive influence ...
  • Westerse interpretasie van die "genius loci" van Mgungundlovu 
    Lewis, Hester (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1993-11)
    Die noue skakeling wat argitektuur met die mens se leefwereld het, lei tot 'n bepaalde ervaring van 'n gebou of gebouekompleks. 'n Bepaalde 'genius loci', wat uit die sintese van die natuurlike en beboude omgewing ontstaan, ...
  • What is out of sight and un-foreseeable : Pieter Hugo's filtered images 
    Schoeman, G.T. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article is a continuation of my exploration of photography with reference to the dialectics of historicity and expectation, archive and performance, absence and presence, theatricality and antitheatricality, visibility ...
  • What remains: photographs, the corpse, and empty places 
    Schoeman, G.T. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article explores the work of Sally Mann, Berni Searle, Ana Mendieta, and Shirin Neshat in relation to the trace-like emblem of the corpse. The corpse or corpse-like body is here read as allegorical of the body’s ...
  • When the ‘Law’ no longer suffices: "Dexter" 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    What are the hidden underpinnings of what may broadly be described as ‘vigilante’ stories, such as those in popular television series or films? What leads one to suspect that there are such out-of-sight presuppositions on ...
  • Where is ‘utopia’ now : an exploration of contemporary Dutch utopian thought and art 
    Kruger, Runette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The term ‘utopia’ originated in 1516, when Thomas More christened his imaginary perfect society ‘Utopia’. The name combines the Greek terms eutopia (‘good place’) and outopia (‘perfect place’ or ’no place’). In this article, ...
  • Wildlife rhetoric: colonization, commodification or interspecies collaboration? 
    Britz, Sonja (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Research into wildlife rhetoric in sub-Saharan Africa has led to the supposition that wildlife representation in contemporary visual culture resides in media representation and wildlife tourist industries rather than in ...
  • Willem Boshoff and materiality according to Adorno 
    Swanepoel, M.C. (Rita); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This article presents a reading of South African artist Willem Boshoff’s installation Writing that fell off the wall (1997) to illustrate how he used his material to expose colonialism and apartheid as inhuman ideologies. ...
  • William Kentridge - creating animated images in space and time 
    Oppermann, Johann (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    At issue in this article is "History of the Main Complaint" (1996), which is the sixth film in Kentridge’s "Drawings for Projection" series (1989-1999). The discussion is centred on spatiotemporal manipulations employed ...