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Theses and Dissertations (Visual Arts): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This research project has explored selected ethical issues raised by scam advertising in the South African advertising industry, as well as in relation to a wider discourse on advertising awards. In Chapter One the aims ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The ability to select and apply type sensitively is an art form that requires an astute knowledge of the communicative complexity of letterforms. However, as a designer and design educator, I have observed that many ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study aims to explore the value and values of design thinking as an approach. More specifically, this study interrogates and explores the value and values of characteristics in design thinking. Moreover, this study ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1963)
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When girls turn into men and boys into women : a postfeminist reading of The Last of Us and BioShock (University of Pretoria, 2016)This study explores the ways in which certain societal anxieties regarding femininity and masculinity surface in post-apocalyptic video games BioShock (2007 2K Games) and The last of us (2013 Naughty Dog). A postfeminist ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This study introduces rapid design ethnography as a research strategy that may be used in design as an alternative to conventional ethnography. It interrogates this strategy by means of a study of the Ghanaian Adinkra ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The aim of this mini-dissertation is to critically investigate the interpretation of the archetype of the resurrection myth in contemporary visual art by identifying and analysing selected works by Diane Victor and Christian ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This study investigates the multiple occurrence of violent sacrificial imagery associated with animalistic and hunted bodies in the work of selected South African female artists as an articulation of the society in which ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The number of research for design methods is increasing every year, but existing literature reveals very little about the state of research in communication design in the South African context. It is not clear whether ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This research is based on the assumption that social media sites – such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – have changed the way in which memes (culturally transmitted ideas) are transmitted or spread. Qualitative research ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)No Abstract Available
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Modern medical students are exposed to a variety of anatomical and physiology textbooks and atlases as part of their medical training. Although little has been written on how these students interact with medical illustrations ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This study explores the visual consumption of food and its meanings through the study of narrative and nostalgia in a selection of five South African cookbooks. The aim of this study is to suggest, through the exploration ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This study performs a critical analysis of the representation of Afrikaner and British masculinity in the first season of the South African War (1899-1902) television series Arende (1989-1993). The study first identifies ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This study, entitled African modernism and identity politics: curatorial practice in the Global South with particular reference to South Africa, postulates that perceptions of African identity in curatorial exhibitions ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1963)
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(University of Pretoria, 1974)Walter Whall Battiss is in 1906 in Somerset-Oos gebore en het in die Oranje Vrystaat groot geword waar hy in sy kinderjare met prehistoriese rotsgravures kennis gemaak het. Hieruit het sy groot bewondering vir die ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This study explores the role of design as a force that may stabilise cultural identity in a cultural climate of globalisation through the use of visual rhetoric and narrative. It focuses specifically on the heritage and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-01-16)This dissertation aims to position train surfing as a visual spectacle that is practised by Sowetan train surfers within the context of post-authoritarian Johannesburg. The author argues that train surfing is a visual and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-12-13)Please read the abstract in the section, 10summary
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