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Theses and Dissertations (Visual Arts): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-10-16)This study explores the subversive stance taken by the Afrikaans little magazine Stet (1982–1991) against the then current ideologies of Afrikaansness, apartheid, and censorship in South Africa during the 1980s. A narrative ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-10-16)No abstract available
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Wally Olins (2008:6), points out that in contemporary culture “brands and branding are all-pervasive and ubiquitous”. As he says, one need only walk down the high street of any major foreign city in the world, be it San ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-09-23)No abstract available
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-19)This study explores the conceptual relationship between design aesthetics and Aristotelian rhetoric in the context of information visualisation. Aesthetics and rhetorical theory are traditionally studied as separate ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Environmental art: Art relating to the individual’s response, understanding and interest towards the land, including art forms such as Land/Earth art as well as more sensitive art forms such as Eco-art, focussed more on ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This research investigates the Neo-Baroque aesthetic of excess in contemporary South African art, and explores reasons for the emergence of this style. It investigates artists who use their bodies as a site of resistance, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007)This study examines the manifestation of New Urbanism in the South African environment and applies the themes, characteristics and principles of New Urbanism to the landscape of Melrose Arch in Johannesburg. This precinct ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1970)Die beginpunt van die nuwe Bantoekuns in Suid-Afrika was die Pollystraatsentrum wat in 1948 in Johannesburg gestig is. Skotnes was van 1952-1965 hoof van die Sentrum en het o. m. Kumalo, Ngatane, Sithole, Maqhubela en Legae ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-08-02)This study comprises a broad-based consideration of contemporary graphic design. It was undertaken in response to observations and perceptions that graphic design is in a vulnerable position unless it is able to articulate ...
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Ideology and myth in South African television : a critical analysis of SABC channel brand identities (University of Pretoria, 2010)This dissertation investigates the brand identities of the South African Broadcasting Corporation television channels SABC1, SABC2 and SABC3 during the first decade of the 2000s (from 2000 to 2009). The study explores the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-08-01)ʼn Visuele analise van twee Afrikaanse, Christelike vrouetydskrifte het ten doel om die aard van ʼn hedendaagse Christen-Afrikaanse vroue-ideaal te ondersoek, soos dit in alledaagse kultuur gekonstrueer word. Hierdie studie ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007)This study explores the representation of the hero in Lawrence and Andrew Wachowski’s Matrix film trilogy, which comprises The Matrix (Wachowski, Wachowski&Silver 1999), Matrix Reloaded (Wachowski, Wachowski&Silver 2003a) ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Since the onset of postcolonialism in South Africa, cultural diversity was brought on by the political decline of cultural borders, mass-media infiltration, technological advancement and the disposition of postmodernism’s ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008)No abstract available.
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-08-19)This study investigates to what extent the curatorial project of Documenta 11 offered an operative cultural concept beyond multiculturality by favouring a transcultural approach to difference in the global sphere. It ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-10-12)The first ten years of democracy (1994-2004) in South Africa was an important period marked by a plethora of research activities in South Africa. The 2004 exhibition of artworks by academic staff from the Vaal University ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-05-22)The disciplinary anxiety that has emerged between art history and visual culture studies increasingly dominates academic research and institutional practice both in global and South African contexts. The research posed ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-05-07)Please read the abtract in the section 09summary of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-05-07)Postmodern museums challenge many of the more traditional concepts regarding what constitutes a museum. Concepts such as museums being places of contemplation or places that exhibit collected artefacts are no longer ...
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