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Journals (South African Journal of Art History (SAJAH)): Recent submissions

  • Willem Boshoff and materiality according to Adorno 
    Swanepoel, M.C. (Rita); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This article presents a reading of South African artist Willem Boshoff’s installation Writing that fell off the wall (1997) to illustrate how he used his material to expose colonialism and apartheid as inhuman ideologies. ...
  • Character and characterisation in the visual arts : nunology’s punning characters 
    Rathbone, Louisemarié; Lotz, Colette; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article presents an interpretation of the nun-like figures in Ian Marley and Wessie van der Westhuizen’s artist’s book Nunology. The nun-like figures, all with names that suggest puns of some sort, comprise the cast ...
  • Bellman hangars : structures of scale and functionality 
    Naude, Mauritz; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Industrial buildings and structures are not usually associated with the discipline of architecture but rather with civil engineering. However, industrial structures form an important part of the manmade landscape of 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, ...
  • Expressing liminality through a reflective practice account of Dismotief 
    Strydom, Richardt; Goosen, Moya; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Dismotief (dis-motif) is an interdisciplinary production that explores masculinity, identity and language. The collaborative exhibition, held in the Potchefstroom City Hall in 2012, encompassed poetry, visual art and ...
  • 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. ...
  • Sin van plek en bioregionalisme : gelaagdheid in ʼn kunstenaarsboekinstallasie van Stanley Grootboom 
    Greyling, Franci; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Kunstenaarsboeke as multimodale en gelaagde werke is ʼn kunsvorm waardeur konkrete, abstrakte en konseptuele ruimte op ʼn besondere wyse vergestalt kan word, en as sodanig kan dit ook vereenselwig word met ʼn bepaalde sin ...
  • Visualising the merging of culture from an ‘other’ perspective 
    Keogh, Sarah; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper reflects on the challenges of cultural identity in an increasingly globalised society. As the individual questions their identity within a surge of globalisation, and with it a dominant Western viewpoint, so ...
  • “Hollow” : reflections on practice, the artefact and the body 
    Du Preez, Linda; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article uses a rhizomatic approach to explore how the artist acquired experiential knowledge and insight through the experience and practice of making the expressive artefact “Hollow” (2011). Sullivan argues, “the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Identity in architecture and art : Versailles, Giverny and Gyeongju 
    Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper explores the different “identities” projected by the palace and gardens of Versailles, the house and garden of Claude Monet in Giverny (France), and Mount Namsan in (South) Korea. It is argued that the palace ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • When the ‘Law’ no longer suffices: "Dexter" 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    What are the hidden underpinnings of what may broadly be described as ‘vigilante’ stories, such as those in popular television series or films? What leads one to suspect that there are such out-of-sight presuppositions on ...
  • Signs behind Rossetti 
    Van Staden, Pieter Schalk (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    This article investigates related themes of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) in relation to his idealized representation of the human figure. Rossetti often represented the female figure in a ...
  • A critical reassessment of the explorer artist Charles Davidson Bell’s (1813-1882) "Cattle Boers' Outspan" (n.d) 
    Swanepoel, M.C. (Rita); Strydom, Richardt (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    This article investigates the depiction of Afrikaner ancestry in Charles Davidson Bell’s (1813-1882) "Cattle boers’ outspan" (s.a.) (fig. 1) within the genre of explorer art. This critical revisiting of Bell – better known ...
  • The influence of "botho" on social space in Botswana since independence 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Since independence, Botswana has developed from one of the poorest countries in the world to a middle-income country. In spite of rapid urbanisation and global capitalism, the ideology and philosophy of social interaction ...
  • The expertise of Architecture and its history 
    Quek, Raymond (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Many historical architectural constructions have been recorded and studied, but not all have been theorised. There seems to be a disconnection at several levels between the discourses of architectural history and the ...