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Types and typologies of African urbanism

Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

This article responds to the rapid urbanisation of sub-Saharan Africa. It laments the loss and deterioration of its pre-colonial urban artefacts due to neglect and even war, and pleads for their conservation and the ...
Reconstructing the Ndebele grass dome house : an integrated heritage initiative

Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

In this article, the cultural heritage of the Ndebele grass dome house is investigated. Multiple sources, ranging from the written record, oral tradition and archaeological evidence are applied, in order to reconstruct the ...
Sketching the Khoikhoi': George French Angas and his depiction of the Genadendal Khoikhoi characters at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1847

Viljoen, Russel Stafford (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

This article investigates the first and only visit of the British artist George French Angas to the Cape Colony in 1847 with specific reference to four Khoikhoi individuals he had sketched. These sketches were later ...
Re-wilding or hyperwilderness - plus ca change?

Haywood, Mark (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

Re-wilding is an important way in which certain land managers, nature conservationists, national park authorities and others envision the future state of landscapes and nature reserves under their control. In some instances ...
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 ...
Flatness and immersion in Mariko Mori's Pureland: the possibility of a digital sublime

Raubenheimer, Landi (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

The possibility of a "digital sublime" is investigated in this paper mainly as it may appear in a Cibachrome print entitled Pureland by Japanese artist Mariko Mori (Weintraub 2003). The pleasant appearance of the image ...
Towards an understanding of the vernacular : nineteenth century Boer-made chairs in the collection of the National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria

Botes, Nico (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

This article introduces ongoing research on nineteenth century Boer-made chairs housed in the collection of the National Cultural History Museum. Motivated by a lack of locally published research, the inquiry is informed ...
South African heritage places : expanding current interpretation and presentation

Bakker, Karel Anthonie (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

South Africans have rich, complex and unique histories. Current South African society is similarly unique, non-monolithic and complex. The last twelve years of Democracy have not resulted in a coconstructed vision of how ...
The corbelled stone structures of Glenfield Farm, Salem - some interpretations revisited

Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

Various postulates concerning the origin and purpose of the corbelled structures in the vicinity of the Assegaaibos River on the farms Farmerfield, Glenfield and Springfield, Eastern Cape Province (previously Albany District) ...
Selective samples of the mainstream Western perception of beauty as a category in architecture - tracing physical beauty connected with mind, emotions and spirit

Jekot, Barbara P. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

The intention of this article is not to determine principles that might be universally applied to architectural beauty in general, but rather to question the relevance of the term beauty in an architectural context. I ...
The coexistence of the 'third' and 'first' world in South African architecture : the inclusion of the 'underdeveloped' in 'developed' technologies in the age of globalisation

Jekot, Barbara P. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

The architecture of so-called 'first' and the 'third' world countries reflects their different characteristics and dynamics: their economical, political, social and cultural dispensations as well as their patterns of ...
Church to mosque : a short account of the recycling of the Pretoria West Dutch Reformed Church

Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

In 1941, a new Dutch Reformed church was built in Pretoria West to the design of Gerard Moerdijk. The "Neo-Byzantine" design, developed and defined by Moerdijk homself, was not regarded by everybody as suitable for a ...
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 ...
Technological practice, relational being, non-anthropocentric being, the being of a space, and the space of being

Ajaykumar (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

This article formally-thematically considers a notion of 'relational being', 'non-anthropocentric being', 'the being of space', and 'the space of being', in the context of current, past and prospective technological practice. ...
Rural potters in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: what next?

Steele, John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

Fired clay vessels created by rural potters in remote areas of the former Transkei, Eastern Cape in South Africa, hardly feature at all in thinking, collecting, and writing about ceramics praxis in this province. Yet, such ...
Nihilism in Japanese Anime

Olivier, Marco (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

In this article I try to show that one can use a conceptual framework on different kinds of nihilism, borrowed from Nietzsche, to understand certain themes in Japanese animated film, known as anime. First it is shown that ...
Beauty and the beast : art and its passion for the beautiful, the ugly, and the sublime

Hurst, Andrea (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

In this article, I investigate the hypothesis that the notions of “the beautiful,” “the ugly,” and “the sublime” articulate the incompatible dimensions of what it means to live the kind of passionate life that most befits ...
A common heritage / an appropriated history: the Cape Dutch preservation and revival movement as nation and empire builder

Coetzer, Nicholas (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

The Cape Dutch architectural revival at the time of the Union of South Africa in 1910 points to more than just an emerging interest in building preservation and the Arts and Crafts rural ideal germane to English architectural ...
The sublime turmoil in recent paintings by Philip Badenhorst

Miller, Gwenneth (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

This article presents a reading of a selection of paintings by Philip Badenhorst (1957-) made during 2007 for the solo exhibition titled A circle had closed; and another had opened again. I briefly revisit the development ...
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 ...

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