South African Journal of Art History Volume 23 (2008)

South African Journal of Art History Volume 23 (2008)

 

Letter of Consent

South African Journal of Art History, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2008)
Content
Bakker, Karel A. Editorial
Ware, SueAnne Design activism and the contested terrains of memorials
Noble, J.A. Memorialising the Freedom Charter : contested imaginations for the development of Freedom Square at Kliptown, 1991 - 2006
Jekot, Barbara P. Reinterpreting public places and spaces : a selection of Krzyszt of Wodiczko's public artwork
Kruger, Runette Where is 'utopia' now : an exploration of contemporary Dutch utopian thought and art
Ferreira, O.J.O. & Le Roux, Schalk Fortaleza de São Sebastião en die Kasteel de Goede Hoop : 'n historiese en vergelykende studie
Duffey, Alexander E.
Anton van Wouw's sculptures on buildings in Pretoria
Olivier, Bert Architecture as consumer space
Schmidt, Leoni Relational provisionality : drawing as spatio-temporal critique
Muller, Liana Intangible and tangible landscapes : an anthropological perspective based on two South African case studies
Coetzer, Nic Exploring 'place-making,' city squares & other places : Cape Town's pre-apartheid spatial politics
Steyn, Gerald Market streets in South Africa's informal settlements
Ross, Wendy The greening of art : ecology, community and the public domain
Viljoen, Russel "Alcohol and Art" : Charles Davidson Bell and his cari-catured images of Colonial Khoikhoi in early nineteenth century Century South Africa
Mare, Estelle Alma The porous city as a model for urban renewal
Breed, Ida The dimensions of space in the urban environment : three methodological approaches for designers that encompass the dynamics of urban space
Bakker, Karel A. & Odendaal, Francois Managing heritage in a contested space : the case of Le Morne Cultural Landscape in Mauritius
Raman, Pattabi G. Modernism, public space and public art
Konik, Adrian Cultural artefacts as places of political contestation : radical democracy, discursive 'groundlessness' and The Name of the Rose
Schoeman, G.T. What remains : photographs, the corpse, and empty places
Glatigny, Pascal Dubourg, Mare, Estelle Alma & Viljoen, Russel Stafford Inter se nulli fines : representations of the presence of the Khoikhoi in early colonial maps of the Cape of Good Hope
South African Journal of Art History, Volume 23, Issue 2 (2008)
Content
Mare, Estelle Alma Mnesikles: the second architect on the Athenian Acropolis
Van Vuuren, C.J. The intricacy of intangible cultural heritage: some perspectives
on Ndebele earthen architecture
Kruger, Runette Mondrian’u s abstraction: chrysalis or colony? A psychoanalytic and
feminist reading
Stevens, Ingrid & Munro, Allan Meetings with Others: a critique of multiculturalism
Potgieter, Frikkie Detotalising or meaninglessness: on the continued relevance of poststructuralism for postmodern art and culture
Noble, J.A. Architecture, hybridities and post-apartheid design
Konik, Adrian
The political significance of ‘presentism’ in Annaud’s 'The Name of the Rose '(1984)
Steyn, Carol & Mare, Estelle Alma Jean Sibelius and his “monument” by Eila Hiltunen
Kistner, Ulrike The bold, the beautiful, and the ugly : reflections occasioned by a beautiful book edited by Sarah Nuttall : review article
Gluskin, Emanuel A comment on 'Servant pouring milk' (Milkmaid) by Jan Vermeer
Gluskin, Emanuel For 'A Girl Asleep' by Jan Vermeer : The first movie
Mare, Estelle Alma Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond, Ales Erjavec : book review
South African Journal of Art History, Volume 23, Issue 3 (2008)
Content
Mare, E.A Editorial
Mare, Estelle Alma Design, art and the notion of empathy
Geldenhuys, Daniel G Empathy as perception in downtown Los Angeles and the Walt Disney Concert Hall as an act of architecture
Ncokazi, Litha & Steele, John Tribute to a special woman, Abigail Nosapho Ncokazi : 1930 - 2001
Van Rensburg, Rudolf J. & Da Costa, Mary-Anne Space as ritual : contesting the fixed interpretation of space in the African city
Van Rensburg, Rudolf J. & Da Costa, Mary-Anne Space as ritual : rethinking spatial strategies in the African city
Jekot, Barbara P. Selected study of architectural envelopes controlling sun radiation - the integration of nature into design
Olivier, Bert Women's 'nature' and architectural design
Van Bergen, Jan Willem From flatness to centeredness : defining empathy in design and why nature is the best designer
Van Tonder, Gert J. Distilling an image of nature from Japanese Zen gardens
Stevens, Ingrid Nature and design : thoughts on sources and subjects
Kruger, Runette Design and empathy

Recent Submissions

  • 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 ...
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Design as a theme.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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.
  • 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 ...
  • Editorial 
    Bakker, Karel Anthonie (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Editorial.
  • 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 ...
  • 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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