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Theses and Dissertations (Visual Arts): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Read abstract in the document
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)In this study, I seek to explore how contemporary art created by Nigerian and South African artists can be described to be rooted in an African vernacular. To this end, I conducted a comparative analysis of the cultural ...
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The Paradoxical Garden, a practice-led study of sculptural installation as ecological intervention (University of Pretoria, 2019-07-30)The Paradoxical Garden is a collection of sculptural installations that focus on human-plant interactions in the garden to emphasise the connection between humans and their environment. Herein ‘nature’, as a human construct, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)While the sublime is most often associated with the theories of Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant in the eighteenth century, it has increasingly moved away from fine arts and become intertwined with developments in the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)There is no doubt that culture and art history have shaped art practice over time. Much contemporary art theory and contemporary anthropology would argue that artwork and human art-making behaviour is a culmination of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 1997)This dissertation examines the sublime and the context in which it evolved. To explore the changes that have taken place, the investigation around this concept has been situated within three moments: Romanticism, Modernism ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The term ‘myth’ is commonly associated with mythical narratives, depicting magnificent dragons and heroic fighters with above-average human abilities in imagined worlds. In design studies, the term ‘myth’ is often critically ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)In October 2015, students from the University of Witswatersrand (WITS) engaged in passionate protest after an announcement that university fees were set to increase by 10.5% in the following year. Nearly concurrently, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)In 1957, South African born Ernst de Jong returned to Pretoria, South Africa, after studying painting and information design at the University of Oklahoma in the USA. De Jong and his American wife, Gwen Drennan, immediately ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Lara Croft, the heroine of the hugely popular Tomb Raider videogame series, is a representative of femininity in contemporary popular culture. The newest Lara Croft game, Rise of the Tomb Raider (released in 2015/2016) ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Please read abstract in the document
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The literature about race and gender includes extensive research on the representation of black women. However, most of these studies have been conducted in the West; only a few have been done in Africa in general and in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This study critically investigates the significance of a Freudian model in an analysis of artworks included in my video-installation, Loss. A practice-led research approach is followed. The medium employed in creation of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)An institution’s unique identity and culture can be constructed and communicated through the artworks (such as portraits) that it collects, commissions and inherits. As a representation, not only of the identity of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This thesis illustrates the potential of Kenneth Burke’s theory for interrogating visual design trend dynamics and rhetorics. The investigation originated in response to the perceived unsustainability of accelerated design ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1999)As 'n persoon uit 'n afgelee plattelandse gebied wat deels in 'n Derdewereld-kultuur beweeg, blootgestel word aan artikels en programme van die duiselingwekkende moontlikhede wat modeme tegnologie bied, kan daar baie maklik ...
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