Browsing Research Articles (Visual Arts) by Issue Date

Browsing Research Articles (Visual Arts) by Issue Date

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  • Anton van Wouw en vroee Johannesburg 
    Duffey, Alexander Edward (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    This essay attempts to reconstruct the ten missing years in the life of the well-known South African sculptor, Anton van Wouw, from the end of the Anglo-Boer War to the end of 1910 when he received the commission to make ...
  • Reals illusions virtuality artifice 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Unisa Press, 2002-09)
    In this article, representations of "real" are investigated in selected technological contexts. It is maintained that, at present, the prevalent technological sophistication in art-making processes creates diffused boundaries ...
  • Rekspring en die eKstreme sublieme 
    Du Preez, Amanda (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2004)
    This article traces the relation between bungee jumping as eXtreme sport and the experience culture that we live in. It is argued that the sublime has been commodified to suit consumers' preferences and choices. The higher ...
  • Authorship and auteurism in Another Country 
    Viljoen, Stella (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2004)
    In 1873 Benjamin Disraeli could bemoan, "[a]n author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children." Today, however, authorship is a consumable that demands endless promoting ...
  • Articulations of the city as a gendered construct 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Unisa Press, 2005-04)
    In this article, the construct of the city is interpreted as a technological, artificial environment as well as a gendered construct. Within this context, depictions of the archetypal city dweller and the gaze in the urban ...
  • Interdesign 2005 and communication design : a contextualisation 
    Van Zyl, H.M.; Van Zyl, Ria (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    During April 2005 visual communication designers took part in an International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) Interdesign that addressed the topic of sustainable rural transport in the North West ...
  • Two hitherto totally unknown Van Wouws 
    Duffey, Alexander Edward (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    The art world is inevitably delighted when new works by an established pioneer artist are discovered, because it not only fills in the gaps in his/her oeuvre, but it also extends our knowledge of the creative potential of ...
  • 'Imagined community' : 1950s kiekies of the volk 
    Viljoen, Stella (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    This article investigates aspects of the cultural and gendered conceptualisation of the Afrikaner 'imagined community' as depicted on the covers of Huisgenoot in the 1950s. The reason this article is concerned with the ...
  • An alliance of style, situation and content : the design of a typeface for South Africa's Constitutional Court 
    Sauthoff, Marian Dene (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    This article contextualises the typographic project, chronicles the type design process and offers some observations and comments on the design outcome. To this end it briefly considers the thinking underpinning the ...
  • Land Rover and colonial-style adventure : the Himba advertisement 
    Van Eeden, Jeanne (Routledge, 2006-09)
    This article examines the infamous Land Rover 'Himba' advertisement (2000) that shocked South Africans because of its racism and sexism. The South African Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the advertisement ...
  • Communality of identity in post-apartheid South Africa : the reception and consumption of the Sculpture of Johannes and Collen Maswanganyi 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Common Ground, 2007)
    In this paper the sculpture of South African Venda artists Johannes Maswanganyi and his son, Collen Maswanganyi is investigated in order to find evidence regarding the character of South African art reception and the ...
  • Attention-seeking images : early work by Berni Searle and Paul Emmanuel 
    Sassen, Robyn (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    Contemporary South African printmaking boasts an uneasy relationship between classic printmaking and the attention-seeking gestures that have historically informed protest art, lending itself to performance culture. In ...
  • Stigma, crime and money in South African art exhibition 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Common Ground, 2008)
    The paper engages with the politics inherent in the exhibition of artworks in postapartheid South Africa, an environment tainted by socio-political conflict, xenophobia and survival strategies. Art exhibition in South ...
  • (Im)Materiality : on the matter of art 
    Du Preez, Amanda (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    If one of the leading media theorist of the twentieth century, Marshall McLuhan's dictum, namely that 'the medium is the message' holds true, how does it apply to the medium of art? Does McLuhan's statement reveal something ...
  • Nomads at a crossroads (X-roads) : a framework for ethical design in South Africa 
    Reyburn, Duncan (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    No abstract available.
  • Unlocking identities in globalising South African art 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    As part of the centenary celebrations of the University of Pretoria, an exhibition entitled Visuality/Commentary2 was held in May 2008 to commemorate a history of more than fifty years of teaching and learning in the ...
  • Sightseeing in art and visual culture 
    Lauwrens, Jennifer (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    No abstract available.
  • Collecting South African art in the 1930s : the role of Martin du Toit 
    Van Eeden, Jeanne (Historical Association of South Africa, 2008-05)
    The first head of the Department of Afrikaans Art and Culture at the University of Pretoria in the 1930s was Professor Martin du Toit, a well-known figure in Afrikaner cultural circles. His vision for the new department ...
  • Engendered representations : exploring sexuality through symbols and myths 
    Du Plessis, Rory; Maree, Marinda (OpenJournals, 2009)
    This article reflects the findings of a project that was conducted by the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Pretoria. In particular, the project sought to dialogue with religious and cultural ...
  • Macho men and the queer imaginary : a critique of selected gay ‘colonial’ representations of homomasculinity 
    Sonnekus, Theo (University of South Africa Press, 2009)
    The contemporary presence of images of hypermasculine aesthetics in gay visual culture results from gay men’s response to being expected to behave like men (masculine performativity) despite being told through stereotypes ...