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Journals (South African Journal of Art History (SAJAH)): Recent submissions
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Materiality to the Milesians was the ultimate state of being. To be was to be material and matter was the complete key to the nature of things. The Pythagoreans however, thought that mathematics and formulas could be ...
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(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 – ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)Ruin cities haunt our imagination and arouse our curiosity for a number of reasons. Those features in them that interest an artist are the characteristic of timelessness that they accrue over the years. Furthermore, they ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)Architects are adamant that academic qualifications are a prerequisite for design competence. It is therefore ironic that vernacular architecture is having a significant impact on contemporary architectural design ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)Colonisation as an ongoing process continues to obfuscate the real identity of a culture “becoming” in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In writing about aspects of my arts practice I touch upon certain Hericlitean, Platonic, and ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)Photography’s truth telling technology enticed early photographers to capture images of war such as the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Many of these images include family photographic collections that were taken in and around ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)Lewis Mumford makes the case that the first (western) utopia was a City, and that the first (western) City was a utopia, and David Harvey similarly iterates that “[t]he figures of ‘the city’ and of ‘Utopia’ have long ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)When creating artefacts that belong in the material world artists choose specific raw materials for particular reasons, including that selected resources are accessible and well suited to fitness for purpose and expression ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)From the mid-18th century on, the number of images of towns and villages of the Portuguese colony in South America increased steadily and showed noticeably similar urban features. These images have been presented in ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)This article expounds Edmond Bacon’s “principle of the second man”, formulated in his Design of Cities (1967), as a criterion for judging the addition of another building or additional architectural structures a on a ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)The reconstruction of the Ncome Monument on the Blood River battle site has managed to restore the political imbalance to a certain extent. The Ncome Monument gives homage to the courageous Zulu regiments who attacked ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)This article focuses on the work of two contemporary artists and the ways in which their work can be shown to relate to Zen Buddhist philosophies and aesthetics. It aims to examine the interpretation of Western art by ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)A visual rhetorical interpretation of the design and symbolism of the pedimented main facade of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is based on a schematic geometric diagram of Plato’s “Creation Myth”, as described ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)We read on the surfaces of buildings the accretions of time. The photographic portrayal of ruins offers a way to reflect on the ravages of time, and show the imprint of time. Once buildings lose their original purpose ...
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(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, ...
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(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, ...
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