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South African Journal of Art History Volume 24 (2009): Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • Contested modernism : post Slums Act public housing in Cape Town 
    Van Graan, Andre (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Following the introduction of the Slums Act by Central Government in 1934, the Cape Town City Council embarked on an ambitious public housing project linked to slum clearance being undertaken in the inner city areas of the ...
  • 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".
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
  • Architecture : a self referential sign or a way of thought? Peter Eisenman’s encounter with Jacques Derrida 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Peter Eisenman’s relation with deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida, in particular, has been documented not solely by the architect himself but also by several other authors. However, the actual dialogue between ...
  • 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 ...
  • Comparing altars and agendas - using architecture to unite? 
    Janse van Rensburg, Ariane (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    In this explorative comparison between the Voortrekker Monument (G.L. Moerdijk, 1949) and the Freedom Park project (Mashabane Rose Architects, 2003 ongoing) on opposite hills south of Pretoria, the obvious differences in ...
  • 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’ ...
  • Langa township in the 1920s – an (extra)ordinary garden suburb 
    Coetzer, Nicholas (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Langa, Cape Town’s oldest black African township, was initially designed as a Garden Suburb aimed at re-housing residents of Ndabeni, Cape Town’s first ‘location’. Its failure – its lack of a bucolic English village aesthetic ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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), ...
  • 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 ...
  • Werdmuller centre – an artifact of an ephemeral context 
    Wolff, Ilze (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Cape Town’s Werdmuller Centre, an iconic modernist building designed by renowned architect, urbanist and teacher, Roelof Uytenbogaardt, is under threat of demolition. A questionable Heritage Impact Assessment conducted in ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 cemetery 
    Gluskin, Emanuel (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The Hebrew ‘El’ (as in Emanu-El) and Arabic ‘Allah’, meaning ‘God’, originate from the same ancient word, but what will be the future of the new cemetery in Kfar Saba situated close to Kalkilya? Can the background of the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • I’m not there : on the ex-situ experience of landscape architecture in texts 
    Prinsloo, Johan Nel (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    An understanding of the relationship between text and landscape can benefit those who design and envisage landscapes to create places – physical or imagined – that have meanings beyond the veneer. It is argued that ...