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Research Articles (Visual Arts): Recent submissions
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(Routledge, 2023)This paper interrogates the visual images and texts Nigerians posted on social media – Facebook as a counter-narrative to President Buhari’s narrative that ‘we have a very young population, a lot of them have not been to ...
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(Routledge, 2024)My paper offers an interpretative approach using visual analysis. In doing so, the paper contributes a discourse on artworks by the South African artist, Nelson Makamo, and focuses on the images drawn from black children. ...
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(Unisa Press, 2021-01)The article explores the foodscape of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, South Africa, from 1890 to circa 1910. The staff of the asylum were disciples of the “gospel of fatness” in which a patient’s weight gain was regarded ...
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(Michigan State University Press, 2021-05)No abstract available.
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Revitalizing the rhetoric of ‘sustainability’ : a Kenneth Burkean diagnosis of symbolic (dis)orders (Routledge, 2021)This paper offers a new perspective on the rhetoric of ‘sustainability’ especially within dialogue around ‘design for sustainability’ (DfS) by applying and advancing the work of twentieth-century rhetorical theorist and ...
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(Routledge, 2021)Over the past decade, powerful mothers in cinema have reappeared in the fantasy genre in the form of “witches”. Some witches’ stories, such as that of Maleficent (the wicked witch from the classic fairy tale Sleeping ...
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(University of Kwazulu-Natal, 2019)The ordinary archive of the racially oppressed in South Africa offers a critical lens through which to interrogate notions of resistance, subjectivities and freedom. This paper considers these questions by examining the ...
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(Routledge, 2020-05)Over the past few decades, numerous prominent authors in various spheres of design discourse have discussed the rhetorical potency of type “icons” and how they come to embody cultural connotation. As icons, typefaces ...
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(South African Museums Association, 2019-12)Throughout history, society has celebrated and elevated events and people with visible monuments, structures, or sculptures in prominent public positions for symbolic, historical, powerful veneration, admiration and ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-09)The artworks produced at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal, have been highly appraised and appreciated in South African art-historical circles, not in the least so as ...
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(Routledge, 2023)This paper interrogates the identities in the representations of women adorned in African cultural dress forms in contemporary Nigerian paintings. While many studies have explored the subject of African dress forms from ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Over the past forty years, studies concerning visual rhetoric have become increasingly prevalent, seeping into multiple areas of research, from visual studies to architecture and design. Robin Kinross’s The rhetoric of ...
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(IGI Global, 2020)This article uses a philosophical hermeneutic perspective to present a reading of selected astronaut space selfies by drawing on ideas of Michel Serres, Paul Virilio, Hannah Arendt, Bonnie Mann, Joanna Zylinska, Nicholas ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap and Kuns, 2021-06)When COVID-19 rapidly spread across the globe in 2020, and people were either encouraged or forced to self-isolate and stay at home, for many, the only way to “keep in touch” with family, friends, peers and colleagues was ...
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(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2020)In his biography on Chesterton, the poet and journalist, William Richard Titterton (1876-1963) noted of his friend that he was always busy writing, and if he was writing, then he was drawing. He would write on any piece ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2020)In the short story “Princess” (Slipping: Stories, Essays and Other Writing. San Francisco: Tachyon, 2016), Lauren Beukes presents a tale of a princess who discovers her clitoris. Subsequent to this discovery, the princess's ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-08)BACKGROUND: South African scholarship on intellectual disability has produced a sizeable body of research, yet there are numerous areas where there is a paucity of research. One area in which there is a conspicuous paucity ...
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(Routledge, 2019)Ecological art responds to environmental degradation and often aims to restore ecosystems through arts practice. Some ecological artists devote their practice to motivating people to protect small species, particularly ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2020)While there is a solid and growing literature on audiences’ affective and empathic responses to visual art, visual culture, and the mass media more generally, less attention has been given to how voice might play a central ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2020)In the late 1970s and early 1980s, female characters that are different from the sexualised and passive women of the 1960s started appearing in science fiction film and television. Three prominent women on screen that ...
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