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South African Journal of Art History Volume 22 (2007): Recent submissions

  • Nihilism in Japanese Anime 
    Olivier, Marco (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 ...
  • Reconstructing the Ndebele grass dome house : an integrated heritage initiative 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    In this article, the cultural heritage of the Ndebele grass dome house is investigated. Multiple sources, ranging from the written record, oral tradition and archaeological evidence are applied, in order to reconstruct the ...
  • Narrative shifts in architecture 
    Raman, Pattabi G. (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 ...
  • A legacy of rondavels and rondavel houses in the northern interior of South Africa 
    Naude, Mauritz (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 ...
  • Editorial 
    Steyn, Gerald (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.
  • Complexities of migration : picaresque drawing 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This article commences with a consideration of migration as an experience, an idea, a theme and a practice. It considers the antipodes as a focus of migration and the central role of migration in the antipodean imaginary. ...
  • Rural potters in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: what next? 
    Steele, John (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 ...
  • Types and typologies of African urbanism 
    Steyn, Gerald (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 ...
  • The criteria for place-making : architectural and urban interior materiality of the Constitutional Court, Johannesburg 
    Grobler, Anika (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This article investigates the variables (principles) that can be used as criteria to enrich the static, physical model of space in the built environment. The social reading of place-making is excluded in this study. This ...
  • Monumental complexity : searching for the meaning of a selection of South African monuments 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    In this article I will try to answer two basic questions concerning a selection of representative South African monuments erected by different groups adhering to various ideologies. Firstly, what truths and values did ...
  • In search of architecture in virtual space: an introduction to "The Virtual Space Theory" 
    Ettlinger, Or (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Over the last decades, the terms 'virtual' and 'virtual space' have come to take an increasingly central part in our culture. Yet, they seem to acquire very different meanings in the various contexts in which they are used ...
  • The sacred and profane symbolism of space in classical Greek architecture : the temple complex of Apollo at Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Rapanos, Athanasios (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 ...
  • East - West South - North : the villancico as carrier of visual, tonal and cultural art forms 
    Geldenhuys, Daniel G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The article deals with the origins and background of the villancico, explaining its role in the transfer and assimilation of cultures between continents. It deals with the resultant metamorphosis and "otherness" of the ...
  • Situating the postmodern: the delay of the architectural avant-garde beyond the Western world 
    Quek, Raymond (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 ...
  • Technological practice, relational being, non-anthropocentric being, the being of a space, and the space of being 
    Ajaykumar (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. ...
  • Medieval perception of space and place in the architecture of Gothic churches 
    Lewis, John A.H. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Our appreciation of medieval church and cathedral architecture is reliably enhanced when we find contemporary indications of perception and cognition involved in the making of such works. Modern assumptions about these ...
  • Art and the ethical today 
    Olivier, Bert (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 ...
  • Contemporary drawing: considering a semiotics of corporeality-materiality 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This article considers key strategies deployed in the history of drawing since the 1970s and how these work towards interfaces between the corporeality of the artist and the materiality of the drawing itself. Connections ...
  • Ecological ‘art’ and the transformation of the world 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    If the modernist artwork was autonomous in the sense of being subject only to the aesthetic laws of its own distinctive being, ecological artworks cannot be understood as ‘autonomous’, but – in accordance with ecological ...
  • Past imperfect: future tense. The response of art in a time of crisis 
    Hoffie, Pat (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 ...