Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 28 (2013) by Subject "Art -- History"

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 28 (2013) by Subject "Art -- History"

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  • The Agora of Asia Minor : the shaping of the non-material by the material in urban space 
    Van der Vyver, Yolanda; Mare, Estelle Alma (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 ...
  • Art and the dream of self-transcendence 
    Hurst, Andrea; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Given a fundamental ontology that takes materiality to be essentially “no-thingness”, I explore the claim that humans create art in response to the dream of self-transcendence. I unpack the paradoxical idea that transcendence ...
  • Book review 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
  • Clocks for Seeing : Time and the photography of Ruins 
    Gaule, Sally; Mare, Estelle Alma (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 ...
  • Conspicuous display : stairs historical and modern Part I : A theoretical introduction and examples of historical stairs in stone, masonry and wood 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    It is the purpose of this article to explain how the stair as an architectural element not merely serves the function of vertical movement in a manner requiring physical safety, but has often, especially in monumental ...
  • Diachronic and synchronic identities of multicultural groups in South Africa 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Indigenous ethic groups and White settlers in South Africa historically established their various identities by means of their settlement patterns and architecture, in an indigenous, or compromised European way. During ...
  • Finding the best clay : experiences of rural potter Alice Gqa Nongebeza contextualised 
    Steele, John; Mare, Estelle Alma (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 ...
  • Florensky and Malevich : the image and materiality 
    Stupples, Peter; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Daniel Miller claims that artefacts essentially not only have material existence – size, shape, texture, weight, colour, the substance from which they are made – but also the human value placed upon them, the context in ...
  • Konseptuele kunstenaar Willem Boshoff se geheime briewe aan Nelson Mandela 
    Swanepoel, M.C. (Rita); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (gebore 1918) word wêreldwyd gerespekteer as politieke vryheidsikoon en ‘n geliefde leier bekend as Madiba. Mandela was 27 jaar in die tronk op Robbeneiland, in Pollsmoor en Victor Verster nadat ...
  • The manifestations of African art in Le Corbusier’s architecture 
    Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (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, ...
  • Marlene Dumas and the painting of (the) flesh 
    Crous, Marius (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Central to Marlene Dumas’s oeuvre is the depiction of human flesh in all its manifestations. By playing on the word “flesh” I will look at how she depicts children and nude adults in her work and to what extent the ...
  • Material, Motif and Memory 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (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 – ...
  • Materiality and the making of the Tswana house from the early nineteenth century to the present 
    Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This study explores the various factors that impacted on the materiality of the ntlo, the house of a married Tswana woman and her children, from the earliest recorded examples in the early nineteenth century, to the ...
  • Materiality and time in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) 
    Konik, Adrian; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    The focus of this article falls on the extent to which the digital time-images – or silicon-crystals – of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) function as a form of counterinformation within contemporary control society, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • 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 ...