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

  • Reflecting on the art making process 
    Van Heerden, Ariana; Munro, Marth (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    This article reports on a mixed method study of painting and drawing activities of professional artists utilizing semi-structured interviews documenting affective states. The experiential data was supplemented with ...
  • Becoming the body, approaching the body, re-enacting the body : Jew in Venice 
    Taub, Myer (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    This paper considers several examples of creative work specifically situated in the city of Venice as an amplification of otherness made apparent through the city’s metonymy of the physical body. This is an attempt to ...
  • A lifetime in ruins : the farm life of blacks on the Mpumalanga Highveld 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The ruin of the homestead represents place making and an understanding of the layered landscape where former labour tenants resided. Ruins comprehend narratives which deal with the socio-political circumstances of the ...
  • Interpretative violence and Jacques Derrida’s professed love of ruins 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In this paper I examine two texts by Jacques Derrida, written at the beginning of 1990s, his “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority” and Memoirs of the Blind: The Self Portrait and Other Ruins written on the ...
  • Ambiguous associations : monuments referred to in the design of the Voortrekker Monument 
    Steenkamp, Alta (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In Gerhard Moerdyk’s communications, both orally and in writing, on the origin and importance of the design of the Voortrekker Monument (1949, Pretoria, South Africa) he often associated this monument with various other ...
  • The spatial patterns of Tswana stone-walled towns in perspective 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    Contemporary authors on African urbanism regularly repeat reports by early European travellers of large Tswana settlements with populations of approximately 20,000, apparently the same size as Cape Town at that time. ...
  • Potshards of Zig-Zag cave at Port St Johns, Eastern Cape, South Africa 
    Steele, John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    Ceramic pots which once were whole and in use by peoples many centuries ago have, in most instances along the Eastern Cape coast of southern Africa, become fragmented and buried below consecutive layers of sand, soil, ...
  • Geology and ruin as settlement generators in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur 
    Van der Vyver, Yolanda (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    When choosing a site for their colonial towns the Greeks favoured places that resembled the geological context of their native country, because they could adapt their familiar water management and town-planning practices ...
  • Adriaan Van Zyl: Memorandum: Marlene Van Niekerk 
    Crous, Marius (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article examines the textual relationship between the paintings of Adriaan van Zyl and the novel Memorandum: a story with paintings (2006) by Marlene van Niekerk. The traditional assumptions about what constitutes ...
  • Myth, ruin and self-exposure : Roger Ballen and the afterlives of images 
    Schoeman, Gerhard (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The departure point for this article is photographer Roger Ballen’s series Boarding house (2008), which is explored partly in terms of the antediluvian creature, Odradek, in Franz Kafka’s short story “Troubles of a ...
  • The mystical visions of El Greco’s backturned figures 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article is introduced with a statement about the author’s involvement with El Greco studies and her attempts to understand the manifestation of mysticism in his art. The research focusses on the visual experience ...
  • History, ruin and sacrament : the breaking of images and the breaking of the bread 
    De Villiers-Human, Suzanne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The current renewed interest in the phenomenon of iconoclasm (a form of ruination) is a symptom of the re-thinking of the image in a medium-aware milieu. When the medium is attacked in iconoclastic acts, images endure ...
  • Author-architects and the moral right of integrity in copyright law 
    Lauterbach, Thorsten (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The agenda for current discussion in copyright law has largely been set by digital technology. But whereas issues like illegal file-sharing and fair dealing rightly occupy centre-stage, the issue of moral or author’s ...
  • Dress and violence : women should avoid dressing like “sluts” to avoid being raped 
    Kwenaite, Sindi; Van Heerden, Ariana (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    Dress is integral to visual culture. Judges, cultural vigilantes and in some cases, females themselves, have expressed or supported the notion that a woman deserves to be violated for her choice of dress. Such choice of ...
  • Getting away with it 
    Taub, Myer (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This paper applies an appropriation of leveling, as a performance / performance art construct, in order to contribute to the dialogue between art and authority in the post-apartheid city of Johannesburg.
  • Subjugated South African buildings: the Bonwit Clothing Factory in Cape Town and the Peri-Urban Areas Health Board Building in Pretoria 
    Brink, Basil (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    Two important and original buildings in the respective oeuvres of the South African architects RS Uytenbogaardt (1933-1998) and C Strauss Brink (1920-1992), viz. the Bonwit Clothing Factory (1967) in Cape Town by the ...
  • Interconnectedness and process in Cleone Cull’s visual art 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This paper is an interpretation of the recent work of the Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth artist, Cleone Cull, through what one might call a ‘close looking’ at the works in question (that would parallel ‘close reading’ of ...
  • Art, law and politics : the Vermeegeren forgeries 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article is based on a contribution to the Art & Law Symposium held at the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic, New Zeeland on 29 October, 2010. This symposium was jointly organized by the Dunedin School of ...
  • Redress-un-dressed : introducing a play of judicial and aesthetic processes of redress 
    Rust, Elgin (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The documents compiled for this journal are extracts from the mini-dissertation part of the Fine Art Masters redress1-un-dressed, ADVOCATE ALICE PRESENTS: R v JR 2010, completed in 2010 at the University of Cape Town. ...
  • Le Corbusier’s research-based design approaches 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The ability to convincingly demonstrate the integration of and reciprocal dynamic between research and product in design assignments is now a prerequisite at most institutions of architectural learning. Due to the creative ...