South African Journal of Art History Volume 14 (1999)

South African Journal of Art History Volume 14 (1999)

Recent Submissions

  • Some thoughts on artists' models 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1999)
    ENGLISH: Prompted by Joel Black's (1984) question "what is before the artwork?", this article considers key issues in the prefigurative dimension of art, among others, the critical neglect of the artist's model, the former ...
  • Science, art history and the Shroud of Turin : Nicholas Allen's research on the iconography and production of the image of a crucified man 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    Evaluation of prof. Nicholas Allen's research on the Shroud of Turin, and of his hypothesis that it is a medieval photographic image.
  • After image : reflections on a site specific artwork 
    Ord, Jennifer M. (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    This article involves a discussion of the way in which it was attempted to image the multi-layered dialectic between a specific site and the elements of an added structure in terms of the relationship between form and ...
  • Keuringsverslag 
    Du Preez, Amanda (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    Keuringsverslag ten opsigte van Bert Olivier se artikel "'Natural Born Killers', violence and contemporary culture" wat op p. 48 van dieselfde joernaal verskyn.
  • "Natural Born Killers", violence and contemporary culture 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    This article focuses on Oliver Stone's controversial film, "Natural Born Killers", in an attempt to determine the relationship between its use of multiform images and viewers' reception of the film. Specifically, the ...
  • The being and movement of the angel in the "Burial of the Count of Orgaz" by El Greco 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    The focus of this study is the angel in El Greco's "Burial of the Count of Orgaz". Art historians who have studied the Burial previously have not extracted the full meaning of this angel in their interpretations of it ...
  • Some thoughts on artists' models 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    Prompted by Joel Black's (1984) question "what is before the artwork?", this article considers key issues in the prefigurative dimension of art, among others, the critical neglect of the artist's model, the former prominence ...
  • Historicism as an aspect of a pragmatist theory of architecture 
    Coetzee, Anton (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    In this essay an attempt is made to validate the historicist theories that architectural practices change over time and that architecture can be interpreted as manifestations of the beliefs existing in particular communities ...
  • South African Journal of Art History, volume 14, 1999 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)