Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 24 (2009) by Issue Date

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 24 (2009) by Issue Date

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  • The influence of the dominance of cultures on artefacts : two case studies – Cordoba, Spain, and Blood River, South Africa 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Conflicts that took place almost three centuries apart – respectively in late medieval Spain and nineteenth-century South Africa – are described in some detail. The Spanish example offers insight into the effect of the ...
  • William Kentridge - creating animated images in space and time 
    Oppermann, Johann (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    At issue in this article is "History of the Main Complaint" (1996), which is the sixth film in Kentridge’s "Drawings for Projection" series (1989-1999). The discussion is centred on spatiotemporal manipulations employed ...
  • Mbilamutondo music and instruments in Venda culture 
    Mugovhani, Ndwamato George (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    There is a decline in the performance and promotion of one of the significant African cultural heritage components, "Mbilamutondo" music. This heritage is facing possible extinction, and its disappearance may spell the ...
  • Play as a creative factor in the visual arts : a hermeneutical reflection 
    Janse van Vuuren, Lukas M. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article demonstrates in a hermeneutical context how the interrelation between play, "mimesis" and fiction contribute to the interactive making and interpretation of visual art works. A theoretical model is employed ...
  • The worldcentric art of Willem Boshoff : an analysis of artefact and discipline in 'Children of the Stars' 
    Staden-Garbett, Miranthe (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Willem Boshoff is a practicing conceptual artist. Readings typically emphasise his use of language, socio-political consciousness and critique of authority within the South African context of colonialism and apartheid. In ...
  • Music and architecture : time and/or space? 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    It is a challenging task to think architecture and music together, given that they seem to be at opposite ends of the spectrum of arts. An attempt is nevertheless made to uncover what they have in common as arts, and ...
  • Extra-ordinary cinema 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The proposed paper aims to articulate some of the possibilities of an ‘extra-ordinary’ cinema – one that would be consonant with what Deleuze indicates in his two books on cinema in terms of what he calls the ‘movement-image’ ...
  • Artists' books : a postmodern perspective 
    Liebenberg-Barkhuizen, Estelle (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article wishes to examine the phenomenon of artists’ books from a postmodern perspective. As artists’ books appear to be a specifically twentieth century art form which intersects a variety of creative fields, such ...
  • Current trends in South African architecture and the way to the future 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Few countries have ever had the opportunity to rethink their architectural dogma as abruptly and radically as South Africa since the few years leading up to the democratic elections of 1994. With only a few exceptions, the ...
  • Tackling art/craft nomenclature, again, with particular reference to octogenarian potter Alice Qga Nongebeza, of Eastern Cape, South Africa 
    Steele, John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Since language evolved there has been an ongoing need for accurate terminology. With the passing of time English words, like those of other languages, have mutated in usage and meaning as ideas took on different aspects ...
  • The (extra)ordinary (con)texts of beauty and be-ing 
    Kruger, Runette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article aims to interrogate Japanese theorist Sōetsu Yanagi’s philosophical writings on Zen Buddhism and Zen aesthetics (as expounded in his essays published in The unknown craftsman: a Japanese insight into beauty), ...
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Editorial to a special issue of SAJAH with the theme "Art/Architecture/Music".
  • Architecture and the othe[r]eal 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper presents a reading of the Northern Cape Legislature (by Luis Ferreira da Silva Architects, 1998) as a form of Magical Realist design, where the limits of established design (i.e. contemporary architecture) are ...
  • A shared spatial symbolism : the Voortrekker Monument, the Volkerslachtdenkmal and Freemasonry 
    Steenkamp, Alta (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article responds to the current fascination around a possible connection between the Voortrekker Monument and Freemasonry. It aims to put forward a fact based argument and analysis to counter the subjective and ...
  • Mindscape : exploring living space in the urban environment by means of photographic interviews 
    Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The paper lays emphasis on the importance of contextual understanding and interpretation for design purposes. It argues for the incorporation of concrete, living and changing realities in the analysis and design of the ...
  • Aspects of perspective and ambiguous space in the work of M.C. Escher 
    Mathlener, Rinette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Cartographers, mathematicians and artists discovered many of the rules for linear perspective before the Renaissance, but the mathematical basis to represent objects three-dimensionally was developed only in the 15th ...
  • The dialectic of representation : the tension between the new and the familiar in post-liberation architecture 
    Wolff, Heinrich (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The aim of this paper is to explore the dialectic of architectural representation within the context of post-liberation self-consciousness and to present some limits and opportunities that this debate offers. The tension ...
  • Johannesburg : a lens for architecture and photography 
    Gaule, Sally (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Johannesburg’s built environment was shaped initially by the gold mining industry whose influence was indelibly writ upon its architectural symbolism. This has however, been intermingled and covered over by the residue of ...
  • Dance as art and as expression of harmony and psychosomatic totality : some psychological considerations 
    Tomassoni, Rosella; Fusco, Antonio (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The dance acquires such different and various meanings so that it can be considered as a complex polysemic form of non-verbal message [of which the] effectiveness can be compared with that of music and figurative arts ...
  • Disfigured ground : architectural space and representation in the creative practices of Dada and Surrealism 
    Chapman, Michael; Ostwald, Michael J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper examines how the representation of architectural space was radically repositioned in a number of creative art practices of the 1920s. The creative strategies of flattening, cutting, framing and transparency ...