• Theoretical underpinnings of the mythic metaphor of the void as exemplified in select nineteenth-century paintings 

  Van Heerden, Ariana (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2023-08)

  The void, the abyss, infinite space – an a temporal and a spatial vastness evocative of terror related to the insecurity of precariousness – these descriptors all point equally to reality as well as to myth and metaphor. ...
• The racialised diet scales of Transvaal prisons : Chinese and Indian prisoner resistance, 1901–1911 

  Du Plessis, Rory (South African Society for Cultural History, 2023-06)

  This article commences with an exploration of how the diet scales of the Transvaal prisons were underpinned by racial discrimination from 1901 to 1911: people of colour received smaller varieties and quantities of food ...
• Conservation science education online (CSEO) – a heritage science resource 

  Murray, Alison; Biggs, Kyna; Shugar, Aaron; Ploeger, Rebecca; Uffelman, Erich; Stols-Witlox, Maartje; Gonzales, Patricia; Smith, Gregory D.; Loubser, Maggi; Lopez, Laura Fuster; Di Pietro, Giovanna; Sah, Anupam; Nevin, Austin; Sardarli, Arzu; Wei, Shuya; Casanova-Gonzalez, Edgar (De Gruyter, 2023-09-23)

  Conservation Science Education Online (CSEO) is a new online resource that shares strategies for teaching science in art conservation and related cultural heritage fields. An overview will be given of how undergraduate ...
• Unmasking the dictator : how digital technologies expose authoritarianism in Belarus and Zimbabwe 

  Mututwa, Wishes Tendayi; Akpojivi, Ufuoma (Intellect, 2023-07)

  Authoritarian governments seem to use the same methods of coercion the world over. Recent developments in Belarus and Zimbabwe resonate with this observation. President Alexander Lukashenko prevailed in a deeply flawed and ...
• Where to look? Sustaining presence while directing attention in virtual reality stories 

  Walter, Michael (AIM, 2023)

  Humans have been fascinated with the notion of submerging themselves in other spaces since antiquity, or even before. As the contemporary media landscape seeks to employ newer immersive practices, particularly in today’s ...
• What blind people can teach sighted viewers about art 

  Lauwrens, Jennifer (Routledge, 2024)

  While sight and hearing have been privileged in the philosophical formulation of aesthetics, the significance of touch to the experience of art has not enjoyed much attention at all. In order to displace sight and reinstate ...
• Illustrating for the common good : South African illustrator perceptions of book creation initiatives and open licensing 

  Haese, Adrie (Common Ground Research Networks, 2024-06)

  The demand for children’s reading materials that are representative of the diverse population of South Africa and that address language and affordability issues has given rise to several book creation initiatives by local ...
• Chapter 6 : The typographic sensorium : a cross-modal reading of letterforms 

  Rath, Kyle A. (Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)

  Anyone living in a post-industrial society consumes and interacts with typography daily, albeit often unconsciously. For many of us, typography primarily is a linguistic or lexical tool; a vehicle by which we can ...
• The rhetoric of Covid-19 : numbers and stats and maps – oh my 

  Rath, Kyle (Routledge, 2022)

  From February 2020, media coverage surrounding the spread of Covid-19 (acronym for the coronavirus disease of 2019) accelerated to the point where it has become the most exhaustively covered pandemic in recent times. ...
• African vernacular symbols of black intersex children in Sinethemba Ngubane's installations (2007-2016) 

  James, Sule Ameh (MIT Press, 2023-06-01)

  Sinethemba Ngubane is an artist who works predominantly in the medium of ceramics but includes sculptures in large installations. She was born in 1991 in Durban, South Africa, and completed a national diploma in Fine Art ...
• People with intellectual disability at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum : humanizing photographs, stories and narratives from the casebooks, 1890–1920 

  Du Plessis, Rory (Routledge, 2023)

  In the medical literature of South Africa in the early twentieth century, Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees published a dehumanized portrayal of people with intellectual disability (PWID) who were institutionalized at the Grahamstown ...
• Spiderly sympoiesis : tensegral tentacularity and speculative clews 

  Price, Erin Kindlund; Van Eeden-Wharton, Adrienne (Sage, 2023-01)

  With Spider(s) as our guide, we tentatively prod and turn felt concepts of situatedness and entanglement; stickiness and attachment; plasticity and pliability; precarity, uncertainty, and leaps of vulnerability. Inspired ...
• Multisensory narratives of home and belonging : investigating virtual representations of physical places in Towards Telepathy (2017) and Home Museum (2020) 

  Lauwrens, Jennifer (Routledge, 2022)

  In 2017, while living in two geographically distant locations, South African artist Katherine Bull and French artist Emmanuel de Montbron collaborated on a project in which they used mobile phones and an online blog to ...
• Potential pesticide contamination in repatriated artifacts in African museums : the need for the adoption of safety protocols for access and use of hazardous artifacts 

  Chiwara, Davison; O'Connell, Siona; Loubser, Maggi (Routledge, 2023)

  This article discusses the issue of potential pesticide contaminants in artifacts that are being repatriated by museums from the global north to Africa. It highlights that the issue of scientific testing of artifacts for ...
• Gendered raptures and continuities in the Venda traditional leadership from C.1990 to 2020 

  Mulaudzi, Lufuno J.P.; Kriel, Lize (Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2021-12-31)

  This article approaches traditional leadership disputes amongst and within Venda royal houses over the past three decades (from the end of grand apartheid to the presidency of Mr Cyril Ramaphosa) while investigating the ...
• Art? science? .... Alchemy : the materiality of spiritual expression in artistic creation revealed through the analytical techniques of a heritage conservator 

  Loubser, Maggi; Le Roux, Salome (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)

  To the uninitiated, it is quite probable that the results that art conservators derive from analytical techniques, may resemble alchemy, but they do not create gold from lead. Instead, they represent the composition of an ...
• Catching ghosts and consecrating the forgotten : the seen and unseen in the work of Diane Victor 

  Human, Deléne (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)

  Since pre-history, humankind has relied on archetypes and myths to describe the ineffable and has made use of fictional and mythological narratives to understand the meaning of life and death. Dying and death are topics ...
• Winged women on book covers for contemporary African fiction : Shubnum Khan’s creation for Mohale Mashigo’s intruders (2018) 

  Kriel, Lize (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)

  In her collection of short stories, Intruders, Mohale Mashigo (2018) draws on popular culture as well as local cultural memories as invested in South African folktales, to conjure up a fantastical world in which spirituality ...
• Elizabeth Goodall and Walter Battiss : inspired by the art on the rocks 

  De Harde, Laura (Routledge, 2021)

  In this article I compare the research methods of two visually trained artists: Elizabeth Goodall and Walter Battiss. Both were working at the beginning of the twentieth century in the emerging field of rock art studies ...
• All that glitters is not gold : counter penetrating in the name of Blackness and queerness, or, Athi-Patra Ruga's camp act in the dirt 

  Adendorff, Delaida (University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2021)

  In this article I engage South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga’s artistic practice to flesh out the complexities that arise from the intersection of the terms Black and queer. Drawing on diverse historical, social and ...

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