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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)In this article I try to show that one can use a conceptual framework on different kinds of nihilism, borrowed from Nietzsche, to understand certain themes in Japanese animated film, known as anime. First it is shown that ...
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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 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)This article formally-thematically considers a notion of 'relational being', 'non-anthropocentric being', 'the being of space', and 'the space of being', in the context of current, past and prospective technological practice. ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)The rondavel has become synonymous with the settlements of the black people of South Africa but has also become a characteristic building type of European (white) folk building in white vernacular architecture. Although ...
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(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 ...
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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)What is art’s function today, in the early 21st century? It is argued here that, while art’s function has changed dramatically throughout history, its formal features are usually regarded as being paramount in ascertaining ...
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(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, ...
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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)Under consideration are the temple layouts at Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis which were shaped in completely different ways. What they have in common, however, is that both represent an architecture on two hierarchic ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)In 1941, a new Dutch Reformed church was built in Pretoria West to the design of Gerard Moerdijk. The "Neo-Byzantine" design, developed and defined by Moerdijk homself, was not regarded by everybody as suitable for a ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)The South African Journal of Art History allows the 'art' in architecture to be celebrated and explored.
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(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 ...
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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)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)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 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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