• From starlight to pixels ; the luminous world of artist Lily Yeh 

  Zanzot, Jocelyn E. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

  Grass-roots, community art is typically not discussed in terms of the sublime because it aims to alleviate not provoke feelings of terror or shock, regenerate rather than exploit the disturbing vastness of landscapes of ...
• Combat scenes in classical Greek art as "beautiful objects" : the expressive power of visual omission 

  Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

  Two explanations are proposed for the fact that classical scenes depicting a combat between a Greek warrior and an opponent are composed in a restrained way, in that the actual violence of maiming and killing is not ...
• Auguste Rodin's marble portrait bust of Gustav Mahler: a study of the beneficiality of a dialectical synthesis of opposites in life and art 

  Mare, Estelle Alma; Steyn, Carol (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

  In 1909 the composer Gustav Mahler and the sculptor Auguste Rodin, arguably the greatest composer and the greatest sculptor of the time, met in Paris. Both were transitional figures in their respective fields, representing ...
• Thematising the ugly side of sublime technological development:Sonzero’s Pulse (2006) as an inadvertent critique of the ‘technocentrism’ of postmodernity 

  Konik, Inge (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

  This article employs certain of the theoretical insights of Jean-François Lyotard and Julia Kristeva to identify the covert, and largely inadvertent, subversive aspects of the mainstream cinematic text Sonzero’s Pulse ...
• Less is more or less more: perceptual health in minimalist design 

  Van Tonder, Gert J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

  The saying by Ludwig van der Rohe, that "less is more", has become a well-known truism about the supposed superiority of minimalism over other design forms, especially decorative compositions. Here, the avenues of ugliness, ...
• Editorial 

  Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

  Response from academics in a variety of disciplines who have not given up on beauty, but are aware of ugliness and willing to introduce new applications for the sublime in visual artefacts.
• 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 ...
• Nek Chand's rock garden and Le Corbusier in Chandigarh : reconsidering the primitive 

  Jackson, Iain; Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

  This paper is concerned with two personalities, Le Corbusier and Nek Chand, occupying, as it would appear, the extreme polarities of the creative spectrum, yet sharing the same geographic space of artistic production. ...
• Passionate living and truth-telling techné 

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

  It is a commonplace among philosophers that we actualize our humanity most fully by “living a creative life,” and that creativity is the response to desire or passion. In this article, I argue that Plato’s “cave allegory,” ...
• Pretoria's golden Gospel Book: a study of a luxury seventeenth-century Armenian manuscript 

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

  A 17th century Armenian manuscript, a Gospel Book, has been in Pretoria in what is now the National Cultural History Museum since 1897 and has never been displayed or studied. It is a particularly luxuriously illustrated ...
• 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 ...
• Are illegal squatters ruralising the urban edge? 

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

  This article was motivated by a claim in literature that migrants are ruralising Third World cities. It investigates the impacts of migration - the fact that all residents are from somewhere else - on the form and function ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Trading store style' - an indelible phenomenon in the historical landscape of KwaZulu-Natal 

  Whelan, Debbie (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

  The trading store is a critically understudied phenomenon, dotted around the varied landscapes of Southern Africa, often marking out physical borders, cognitive boundaries and spatial edges. The emergence of the store ...
• Beauty, ugliness, the sublime, and truth in art 

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

  Is it possible to articulate an aesthetic of the beautiful today, at a time when what Kundera’s character, Sabina, describes as the ‘uglification’ of the world, has become pervasive, on the one hand, and when, on the other, ...
• The sublime can be ridiculous: ugly beautiful memorial space: implications for the process of critique 

  Gamble, Jennifer M (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)

  Discussions of architecture inevitably involve assessments of visual pleasure / displeasure. In relation to contemporary memorial space, such discussions rarely venture into the territory of the negative critique in the ...

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