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South African Journal of Art History Volume 23 (2008)
Letter of
Consent
South African Journal of Art History, Volume 23,
Issue 1 (2008)
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Content
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Bakker,
Karel A.
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Editorial
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Ware,
SueAnne
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Design
activism and the contested terrains of memorials
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Noble,
J.A.
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Memorialising the
Freedom Charter : contested imaginations for the
development of Freedom Square at Kliptown, 1991 -
2006
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Jekot,
Barbara P.
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Reinterpreting public
places and spaces : a selection of Krzyszt of Wodiczko's
public artwork
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Kruger,
Runette
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Where is
'utopia' now : an exploration of contemporary Dutch utopian
thought and art
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Ferreira,
O.J.O. & Le Roux, Schalk
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Fortaleza de São
Sebastião en die Kasteel de Goede Hoop : 'n historiese en
vergelykende studie
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Duffey,
Alexander E.
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Anton
van Wouw's sculptures on buildings in Pretoria
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Olivier,
Bert
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Architecture as
consumer space
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Schmidt,
Leoni
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Relational
provisionality : drawing as spatio-temporal critique
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Muller,
Liana
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Intangible and tangible
landscapes : an anthropological perspective based on two
South African case studies
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Coetzer,
Nic
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Exploring
'place-making,' city squares & other places : Cape
Town's pre-apartheid spatial politics
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Steyn,
Gerald
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Market
streets in South Africa's informal settlements
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Ross,
Wendy
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The
greening of art : ecology, community and the public
domain
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Viljoen,
Russel
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"Alcohol
and Art" : Charles Davidson Bell and his cari-catured
images of Colonial Khoikhoi in early nineteenth century
Century South Africa
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Mare,
Estelle Alma
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The
porous city as a model for urban renewal
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Breed,
Ida
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The
dimensions of space in the urban environment : three
methodological approaches for designers that encompass the
dynamics of urban space
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Bakker,
Karel A. & Odendaal, Francois
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Managing
heritage in a contested space : the case of Le Morne
Cultural Landscape in Mauritius
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Raman,
Pattabi G.
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Modernism, public space
and public art
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Konik,
Adrian
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Cultural
artefacts as places of political contestation : radical
democracy, discursive 'groundlessness' and The Name of the
Rose
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Schoeman,
G.T.
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What
remains : photographs, the corpse, and empty places
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Glatigny,
Pascal Dubourg, Mare, Estelle Alma & Viljoen, Russel
Stafford
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Inter se nulli
fines : representations of the presence of the Khoikhoi in
early colonial maps of the Cape of Good Hope
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South African Journal of Art History, Volume 23,
Issue 2 (2008)
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Content
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Mare,
Estelle Alma
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Mnesikles: the second
architect on the Athenian Acropolis
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Van
Vuuren, C.J.
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The
intricacy of intangible cultural heritage: some
perspectives
on Ndebele earthen architecture
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Kruger,
Runette
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Mondrian’u
s abstraction: chrysalis or colony? A psychoanalytic and
feminist reading
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Stevens,
Ingrid & Munro, Allan
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Meetings with
Others: a critique of multiculturalism
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Potgieter,
Frikkie
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Detotalising or
meaninglessness: on the continued relevance of
poststructuralism for postmodern art and culture
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Noble,
J.A.
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Architecture,
hybridities and post-apartheid design
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Konik,
Adrian
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The
political significance of ‘presentism’ in Annaud’s 'The
Name of the Rose '(1984)
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Steyn,
Carol & Mare, Estelle Alma
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Jean
Sibelius and his “monument” by Eila Hiltunen
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Kistner,
Ulrike
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The
bold, the beautiful, and the ugly : reflections occasioned
by a beautiful book edited by Sarah Nuttall : review
article
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Gluskin,
Emanuel
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A
comment on 'Servant pouring milk' (Milkmaid) by Jan
Vermeer
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Gluskin,
Emanuel
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For 'A
Girl Asleep' by Jan Vermeer : The first movie
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Mare,
Estelle Alma
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Postmodernism,
Postsocialism and Beyond, Ales Erjavec : book review
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South African Journal of Art History, Volume 23,
Issue 3 (2008)
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Content
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Mare,
E.A
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Editorial
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Mare,
Estelle Alma
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Design,
art and the notion of empathy
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Geldenhuys, Daniel
G
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Empathy
as perception in downtown Los Angeles and the Walt Disney
Concert Hall as an act of architecture
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Ncokazi,
Litha & Steele, John
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Tribute
to a special woman, Abigail Nosapho Ncokazi : 1930 -
2001
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Van
Rensburg, Rudolf J. & Da Costa, Mary-Anne
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Space as ritual
: contesting the fixed interpretation of space in the
African city
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Van
Rensburg, Rudolf J. & Da Costa, Mary-Anne
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Space as ritual :
rethinking spatial strategies in the African city
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Jekot,
Barbara P.
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Selected
study of architectural envelopes controlling sun radiation
- the integration of nature into design
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Olivier,
Bert
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Women's
'nature' and architectural design
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Van
Bergen, Jan Willem
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From
flatness to centeredness : defining empathy in design and
why nature is the best designer
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Van
Tonder, Gert J.
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Distilling an image of
nature from Japanese Zen gardens
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Stevens,
Ingrid
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Nature
and design : thoughts on sources and subjects
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Kruger,
Runette
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Design
and empathy
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Recent Submissions
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Jekot, Barbara P.
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
This article investigates light control devices in architecture and nature searching for possible improvements and inspirations in architectural design. The article will briefly evaluate sun breakers and louvers as well ...
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Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
Design as a theme.
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Kruger, Runette
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
The relationship between design and empathy is not unproblematic. Consideration of this relationship brings several questions to mind, including whether it is possible for design to be practiced in a predominantly
empathetic ...
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Stevens, Ingrid
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
This article takes the theme ‘Is nature the best designer?’ and, in order to show that nature was historically and remains today a viable, valid and relevant source of design, particularly surface and pattern design, looks ...
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Van Bergen, Jan Willem
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
In this article I will be elaborating a position first articulated by R. Buckminster Fuller. This position is that the geometry we rely on to inform and motivate our acts is central to our being in the world, and hence our ...
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Olivier, Bert
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
In this article I examine the startling work of Leonard Shlain on the provenance of certain ‘natural’,cortico-neurally based predispositions on the part of women as opposed to men, and offer an interpretation of his work ...
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Ncokazi, Litha; Steele, John
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
This tribute to maternal grandmother of co-author Litha Ncokazi is based on his childhood memories of growing up in the Transkei, Eastern Cape, in South Africa. Aspects of these recollections have in turn served as a ...
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Geldenhuys, Daniel G.
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
The present article suggests that empathy is not the sole preserve of human beings, and that a city or buildings can also relate with empathy to people and the environment. The Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by the ...
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Van Tonder, Gert J.
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
Humans are not only adapted to nature, but also adapt their domestic environment to suit their own needs. Here, I suggest that Japanese Zen gardens uniquely bridge these different formative spheres of our perceptual evolution ...
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Van Rensburg, Rudolf Johannes; Da Costa, Mary-Anne
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s quotidian theories, space making is explored as an expression of a society’s collective mind. Spatial understanding is a function of culture. Spatial ability is the capacity to interpret knowledge ...
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Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
Mnesikles was a Classical Greek architect, active circa 440, whose life cannot be reconstructed in detail. He was the architect of the Propylaea on the Athenian Acropolis, while adjacent buildings there, the Erechtheum and ...
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Gluskin, Emanuel
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
The assumption is expressed that two very different, strongly mutually contrasting places are shown in ‘Servant pouring milk’, and this is the “hidden” dynamic of thought of this picture by a genius, which amazed, despite ...
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Konik, Adrian
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
Against the backdrop of Laclau and Mouffe’s perspectives on radical democracy, this article focuses on the way in which the phenomenon of ‘presentism’, or the retrospective historical projection of the axiology of the ...
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Noble, J.A. (Jonathan)
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
This chapter develops a methodological discussion on questions of hybridity in architectural theory and design, in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Reference is made to differing ideas of hybridity; from early ...
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Potgieter, Frikkie
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
This article analyses how the poststructuralist deconstruction of fixed knowledge and universal experiences, presents itself in two opposing ethical positions in postmodernist art and culture. On the one hand the deconstruction ...
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Gluskin, Emanuel
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
A love-story, in the form of a movie scenario, built around the impression formed by the painting “A Girl Asleep” (or “A Woman Asleep at Table”) by Johannes Vermeer, is presented.
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Steyn, Carol; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
Finland regarded the composer Jean Sibelius as a national hero from his youth until the end of his long life, although he composed nothing during his last thirty years. Outside Finland his reputation as a composer has been ...
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Bakker, Karel Anthonie
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
Editorial.
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Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
Aleš Erjavec is the Director of Research in the Institute of Philosophy of the Center of
Scientific Research of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Ljubljana) and professor of Aesthetics at Ljubljana University ...
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Munro, Allan; Stevens, Ingrid
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
Multiculturalism can be celebrated from a positive perspective or criticized from a negative perspective. The postcolonial writings of Edward Said (1978) and Ziauddin Sardar (1998), although separated by some twenty years, ...
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