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  • Beknopte oorsig van Sjinese keramiek 
    Duffey, Alexander Edward (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)
    Ceramic work has been characterised as the simplest and the most complex of all the arts, because it is elemental and abstract. No other nation has reached a higher level of development in ceramics than the Chinese. This ...
  • Konferensieverslag: "Tendense van tagtig; teoriee en praktyke in die kunsgeskiedenis" (RGN, 7 Oktober 1989) 
    Van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark; Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)
    In 'n tyd wat 'n mens aanhoudend dwing om standpunt in te neem, is daar behoefte aan gesprekke oor tendense. Sulke besinnings is hulpmiddels om tot 'n posisiebepaling te kom binne die netwerk van verhoudings waarin 'n mens ...
  • Max Ernst: "The hundred headless woman" and the eternal return 
    Janse van Rensburg, H.J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)
    Max Ernst often responded to the thought of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his art in the 1920's. This study approaches the collage-novel, "The Hundred Headless Woman", from the perspective of Nietzsche's concept ...
  • Literatuuroorsig en probleemstelling oor die rotskuns 
    Prins, M (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1989)
    Die rotskuns is voortgebring deur prehistoriese samelewingsgroepe wat nie die skryfkuns geken het nie en geen geskrewe bronne is dus beskikbaar wat Iig kan werp op die kuns nie. Uit die Iiteratuur blyk dit dat daar min ...
  • Motivation and the rain animal in the rock art of southern Africa 
    Woodhouse, Herbert Charles, 1919-2011 (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)
    The question arises why paintings and engravings were made on the rocks of southern Africa and also why the theme of the 'rain animal' or 'rain snake' was often executed. Motivation for the artistic activity involved is ...
  • El Greco, a mediator of modern painting 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Without clear articulation of their insights, except in painted copies of and citations from his works, various modern artists seem to have recognised that formally El Greco’s late paintings are mental constructs, representing ...
  • From Bordeaux to Barcelona - Le Corbusier's creative journey that went unnoticed 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The evolution of Le Corbusier’s architecture from cuboid, slick and white forms, and the universality of Purism in the 1920s, to an earthy roughness, undeniabl[y] inspired by Mediterranean vernacular traditions after about ...
  • Stone cladding as artificial ruin for triggering nostalgia 
    De Bruyn, Derick (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In observing recent journals, one notices the frequent use of stone cladding on building projects and associated advertisements, as a demand for a variety of stone cladding types. This article explores the idea of stone ...
  • Making present the absent other : anamnesis and the work of Kiefer, Boltanski, Cruise and Coetzee 
    Redelinghuys, Ian; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    It is possible that artists, in the making of memorials and monuments, might aid in the process of national healing after a traumatic national era or event. This, it is argued, is more likely to be achieved through the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Mediation through materiality in post-mediative practices 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article is based on a conference paper presented at the 2010 SAJAH Conference at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. It poses some questions ...
  • Images and mediation 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper focuses on the question of mediation via images. Its point of departure is the work of Kant on the mediation of human reality by the faculty of reason, including imagination and the forms of space and time, ...
  • Mediating between tradition and meaning in stained glass windows 
    Janse van Rensburg, Ariane (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The medieval church used stained glass windows to mediate between Latin scripture and the illiterate laity. Following the Reformation, Calvinist tradition avoided visual symbolism. In the Afrikaans Dutch Reformed Church, ...
  • Mediating public and private : three models of 'public space' 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is mindful of the increasingly complex mediations of public and private, and explores theoretical constructs gleaned from architectural thought and political theory, to derive ideas that are pertinent to our ...
  • Johannesburg : a lens for architecture and photography 
    Gaule, Sally (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Johannesburg’s built environment was shaped initially by the gold mining industry whose influence was indelibly writ upon its architectural symbolism. This has however, been intermingled and covered over by the residue of ...
  • Towards a dialogical design studio : mediating absurdities in undergraduate architectural education in South Africa 
    Coetzer, Nicholas (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The design studio is a key component of architectural education. In South African universities, the design studio tends to be dominated by what I call the Apprenticeship Studio. This teaching approach establishes the ...
  • Challenging the social sciences through the visual arts : reconsidering Foucault in the light of Field's "Little Children" (2006) 
    Konik, Adrian; Konik, Inge (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Taking as its point of departure the validity of Michel Foucault’s ideas concerning disciplinary power, bio-power, and the privileged position of sexuality as a focal point of their combination, this article furnishes a ...
  • The dialectic of ruin 
    Viljoen, Marga (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article focuses on the ambiguous aspects of 'ruin' in its different appearances - as visible material phenomenon and as concept or idea. The word 'ruin' implies the dialectic of passivity and action; the specific and ...
  • Sources of new ornamental plants : the importance of heritage plants and plant relicts from historic places and old gardens 
    Middleton, Lorraine; Vosloo, Pieter Tobias (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    Mankind has enjoyed a long historical relationship with plants, using them as objects of beauty, sculpting gardens into a form of art and fashioning them into expressions of philosophical belief. From the 1970s onwards ...
  • The protection of traditional knowledge : challenges and possibilities arising from the protection of biodiversity in South Africa 
    Dountio, Joelle (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    Indigenous communities are richly endowed with some unique knowledge. This knowledge was for much of history held only by these indigenous communities, and was unwritten because it is transmitted orally from one generation ...