Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 23 (2008) by Issue Date

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 23 (2008) by Issue Date

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  • Architecture as consumer space 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The thought of Merleau-Ponty, Silverman, Marx and Marcuse is a valuable repository of insights that may function as guidelines for ascertaining what would count as truly ‘human’ space – that is, a space that does not ...
  • Relational provisionality : drawing as spatio-temporal critique 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article consists of two parts: the first looks back and the second moves sideways. In the first part, the author considers the background for her current research focus on contemporary drawing. In the second part, ...
  • Anton van Wouw’s sculptures on buildings in Pretoria 
    Duffey, Alexander Edward (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    It is not widely known that South Africa’s most important pioneer sculptor, Anton van Wouw (1862-1945), received his initial training as an architectural sculptor. At an early stage in his career he worked for a concrete ...
  • Design activism and the contested terrains of memorials 
    Ware, SueAnne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    There is an incongruity between the inherent changeability of both landscapes and memories, and the conventional, formal strategies of commemoration that typify the constructed landscape memorial. This paper will examine ...
  • Fortaleza de São Sebastião en die Kasteel de Goede Hoop : ’n historiese en vergelykende studie 
    Ferreira, O.J.O. (Ockert Jacobus Olivier), 1940-; Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    From the beginning of the 16th century Ilha de Moçambique [Mozambique Island] represented for the Portuguese the most important port of call in the Carreira da Índia, the round voyage between Portugal and India. After the ...
  • Tribute to a special woman, Abigail Nosapho Ncokazi: 1930-2001 
    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 ...
  • Design and empathy 
    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 ...
  • The greening of art : ecology, community and the public domain 
    Ross, Wendy (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Environmental degradation, pollution and poverty are said to be destroying most countries worldwide. This article responds to the need for the recognition of the role that ecologically-concerned art can play in environmental ...
  • The intricacy of intangible cultural heritage: some perspectives on Ndebele earthen architecture 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Intangible heritage has become a discourse both in the institutionalised heritage domain and in the academic world. This article dismantles the concept, deconstructs existing mythologies, and illuminates some of the core ...
  • Market streets in South Africa’s informal settlements 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The African market street is unquestionably one of the most contested spaces in the built environment. It is a busy, crowded place shared by traders, pedestrians and vehicles, mostly minibus taxis. This phenomenon is ...
  • Architecture, hybridities and post-apartheid design 
    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 ...
  • Inter se nulli fines : representations of the presence of the Khoikhoi in early colonial maps of the Cape of Good Hope 
    Glatigny, Pascal Dubourg; Mare, Estelle Alma; Viljoen, Russel Stafford (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This paper deals with early cartographic representations (both cosmographic and chorographic) of the presence of Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope. While the boundaries of the Dutch settlement at Table Bay and the land ...
  • The dimensions of space in the urban environment : three methodological approaches for designers that encompass the dynamics of urban space 
    Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This paper aims to broaden the debate on dynamics that influence urban space formation, as a means to a better understanding and as a reference for the South African context. The dynamics that determine the formation of ...
  • Mnesikles : the second architect on the Athenian Acropolis 
    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 ...
  • Cultural artefacts as places of political contestation : radical democracy, discursive ‘groundlessness’ and The Name of the Rose 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article, taking as its point of departure the validity of Laclau and Mouffe’s perspectives on radical democracy, focuses, in particular, on whether or not neo-Marxist cultural criticism could, conceivably, have recourse ...
  • Managing heritage in a contested space : the case of Le Morne Cultural Landscape in Mauritius 
    Bakker, Karel Anthonie; Odendaal, Francois (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The Le Morne Brabant Peninsula in south-western Mauritius is known for the imposing mountain of Le Morne that dominates the natural landscape. The peninsula is a contested place. During the time of slavery, the place was ...
  • Design, art and the notion of empathy 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    When the notion of empathy (Greek: em-pathos), which in its broadest sense may be defined as the ability to have compassion for and an understanding of the thoughts, feelings, and situation of another being and humanity ...
  • The porous city as a model for urban renewal 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    In 1924 Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis described the environs and architecture of Naples as “porous”, explaining that its built environment resists any fixed or designated functionality. Their description reminds one of ...
  • Space as ritual: contesting the fixed interpretation of space in the African city 
    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 ...
  • Editorial 
    Bakker, Karel Anthonie (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Editorial.