In Gerhard Moerdyk’s communications, both orally and in writing, on the origin and importance of the design of the Voortrekker Monument (1949, Pretoria, South Africa) he often associated this monument with various other ...

The agenda for current discussion in copyright law has largely been set by digital technology. But whereas issues like illegal file-sharing and fair dealing rightly occupy centre-stage, the issue of moral or author’s ...

This article examines the legal protection available to works of craft in South Africa. Current protection in terms of intellectual property legislation is measured by determining whether three different enterprises enjoy ...

Mainstream understanding of how the urban form of South African cities developed over the past century and a half is often traced back to the colonial town plan. Writers argue that the gridiron and axial arrangement were ...

This article focuses on the ambiguous aspects of 'ruin' in its different appearances - as visible material phenomenon and as concept or idea. The word 'ruin' implies the dialectic of passivity and action; the specific and ...

Dress is integral to visual culture. Judges, cultural vigilantes and in some cases, females themselves, have expressed or supported the notion that a woman deserves to be violated for her choice of dress. Such choice of ...

In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, Gilles Deleuze maintains that cinematic time-images first emerged after World War Two against the backdrop of the ‘any-space-whatever’ reflected in Italian ...

This paper applies an appropriation of leveling, as a performance / performance art construct, in order to contribute to the dialogue between art and authority in the post-apartheid city of Johannesburg.

On the 4th of May 2011 the District Court of The Hague (the Netherlands) reached a decision on the dispute between Louis Vuitton and artist Nadja Plesner. Louis Vuitton claimed Plesner had infringed the design right of ...