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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 22 (2007) by Issue Date
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)Postmodern tendencies in architecture have revealed the most palpable sense stakes in cultural politics in the 1970s. Tracing the trajectory of postmodern development in architecture and cultural thought of the West, this ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)Attend a guided tour of the new Constitutional Court building in Johannesburg. At some stage or other the well-trained and polite guide will ask you whether you have seen any court building like this. Then, listen to the ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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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(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) ...
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(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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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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