Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 24 (2009) by Issue Date

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 24 (2009) by Issue Date

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  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Editorial to a special issue of SAJAH with the theme "Art/Architecture/Music".
  • Mindscape : exploring living space in the urban environment by means of photographic interviews 
    Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The paper lays emphasis on the importance of contextual understanding and interpretation for design purposes. It argues for the incorporation of concrete, living and changing realities in the analysis and design of the ...
  • A discussion of Xenakis and Varese, metaphor and simile, music and architecture 
    McEwen, Hugh (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper aims to examine the possible cross pollination between music and architecture through two of the most successful proponents of this translation. Since by its very nature translation involves an interpretation ...
  • Langa township in the 1920s – an (extra)ordinary garden suburb 
    Coetzer, Nicholas (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Langa, Cape Town’s oldest black African township, was initially designed as a Garden Suburb aimed at re-housing residents of Ndabeni, Cape Town’s first ‘location’. Its failure – its lack of a bucolic English village aesthetic ...
  • Book review 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The following Collected Essays by Bert Olivier is reviewed: "Philosophy and the Arts", "Philosophy and Communication" and "Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory".
  • Dance as art and as expression of harmony and psychosomatic totality : some psychological considerations 
    Tomassoni, Rosella; Fusco, Antonio (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The dance acquires such different and various meanings so that it can be considered as a complex polysemic form of non-verbal message [of which the] effectiveness can be compared with that of music and figurative arts ...
  • The dialectic of representation : the tension between the new and the familiar in post-liberation architecture 
    Wolff, Heinrich (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The aim of this paper is to explore the dialectic of architectural representation within the context of post-liberation self-consciousness and to present some limits and opportunities that this debate offers. The tension ...
  • Aspects of perspective and ambiguous space in the work of M.C. Escher 
    Mathlener, Rinette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Cartographers, mathematicians and artists discovered many of the rules for linear perspective before the Renaissance, but the mathematical basis to represent objects three-dimensionally was developed only in the 15th ...
  • 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 ...
  • Current trends in South African architecture and the way to the future 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Few countries have ever had the opportunity to rethink their architectural dogma as abruptly and radically as South Africa since the few years leading up to the democratic elections of 1994. With only a few exceptions, the ...
  • The influence of the dominance of cultures on artefacts : two case studies – Cordoba, Spain, and Blood River, South Africa 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Conflicts that took place almost three centuries apart – respectively in late medieval Spain and nineteenth-century South Africa – are described in some detail. The Spanish example offers insight into the effect of the ...
  • Extra-ordinary cinema 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The proposed paper aims to articulate some of the possibilities of an ‘extra-ordinary’ cinema – one that would be consonant with what Deleuze indicates in his two books on cinema in terms of what he calls the ‘movement-image’ ...
  • Artists' books : a postmodern perspective 
    Liebenberg-Barkhuizen, Estelle (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article wishes to examine the phenomenon of artists’ books from a postmodern perspective. As artists’ books appear to be a specifically twentieth century art form which intersects a variety of creative fields, such ...
  • Teaching Art History through archaeologies of the contemporary 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article argues that Art History as a discipline has been critiqued on a number of levels in recent decades. However, the knowledge which the discipline can provide for students in tertiary art schools remains invaluable. ...
  • The cemetery 
    Gluskin, Emanuel (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The Hebrew ‘El’ (as in Emanu-El) and Arabic ‘Allah’, meaning ‘God’, originate from the same ancient word, but what will be the future of the new cemetery in Kfar Saba situated close to Kalkilya? Can the background of the ...
  • The selective use of slate in vernacular farm buildings and structures north of the Vaal River 
    Naude, Mauritz (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Slate and shale are not usually considered as building stone for the construction of entire buildings in the vernacular farm architecture of the area north of the Vaal River (historically known as the Transvaal). Sandstone ...
  • Architecture : a self referential sign or a way of thought? Peter Eisenman’s encounter with Jacques Derrida 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Peter Eisenman’s relation with deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida, in particular, has been documented not solely by the architect himself but also by several other authors. However, the actual dialogue between ...
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
  • A shared spatial symbolism : the Voortrekker Monument, the Volkerslachtdenkmal and Freemasonry 
    Steenkamp, Alta (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article responds to the current fascination around a possible connection between the Voortrekker Monument and Freemasonry. It aims to put forward a fact based argument and analysis to counter the subjective and ...
  • Architecture and the othe[r]eal 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper presents a reading of the Northern Cape Legislature (by Luis Ferreira da Silva Architects, 1998) as a form of Magical Realist design, where the limits of established design (i.e. contemporary architecture) are ...