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Theses and Dissertations (Visual Arts): Recent submissions
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The princess in the veld : curating liminality in contemporary South African female art production (University of Pretoria, 2017)I aim to showcase post-African female identity through the exhibition, The princess in the veld. The exhibition displays selected works produced by South African women artists, underpinned by the proposed curatorial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Creativity plays an important part in design and problem-solving. While the role of play has enjoyed a great deal of attention in the study of both creativity and problem-solving alike, the overlap between games and the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)This research stems from the view that although the twenty-first century has witnessed a return to the skilfully crafted art object, many of these artworks are not made by the artists, but produced instead by fabricators ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)No abstract available
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)This research briefly introduces the roles of art museums and presents selected digital technology implementation challenges and benefits in art museums in the Gauteng Province. An art museum is a building or space for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)In this practice-led exploration, I investigate the aesthetic potential of household waste. With household waste as the object of investigation, I explore the cultural signification of waste in terms of the role it plays ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This mini-dissertation serves as a framework for my own creative practice. In this research paper my intention is to explore, within a feminist reading, representations of the female corpse in fashion photography and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The purpose of this study is twofold: firstly, to analyse the manner in which surrealist art may correlate with a hysterical mode of representation; and secondly, to develop this understanding of the relation between ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This study aims to investigate the changing ontological nature of the portrait from mimesis to methexis in relation to South African portraiture. It proposes that the representational nature of traditional portraiture ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)New technologies, such as virtual reality, often draw to itself myths from other fields of interest and discourses. One such myth that has attached itself to virtual reality is the notion that virtual reality can provide ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)This study develops a utopia, named distopia, positioned as a utopia of dissidence and cultural pluralism, also described as difference. The term distopia is a neologism formulated to invoke productive elements of utopia ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)I am a black South African in my late twenties; had I been slightly younger, I would have been a "born-free". I was raised on the master narrative that South African history in the twentieth century was a struggle against ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)study documents the occurrence of the intellectual hero in anime, focussing on the anime series of Monster (2004), Paranoia Agent (Kon 2004) and Umineko no Naku Koro ni (Kon 2009). The characters, Doctor Kenzo Tenma, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1988)For the purposes of this study, a very brief account has been given of the Impressionist movement in art and music, and an attempt has been made to illustrate the close relationship that existed between the two, and to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2004)All forms of material practice, including design, overtly or covertly manifest and reflect an inescapable ideological grounding. The overt display of an ideological point of view in design is defined as propaganda, the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1983)Die doel met hierdie studie is tweeledig. Eerstens is dit 'n poging om die aandag te vestig op die belangrike rol wat kunshandelaars speel in die bevordering van kuns en tweedens om 'n familiesaak wat 'n groot aandeel gehad ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006)The hypothesis of this dissertation is that contemporary Norwegian painter, Odd Nerdrum (b 1944), uses tenebrism as a mode of beauty and a device to emphasise psychological states of being. Tenebrism is an effective ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1974)Die oorspronklike tema van hierdie verhandeling sou gewees het ‘n studie van die werk van ‘n aantal eietydse Suid-Afrikaanse skilders wat in die landskap of landskapvorme onderwerpe vind vir hulle kuns bv. Gordon Vorster ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1968)In hierdie bespreking word in hoofstuk 1 net 'n korte oorsig gegee van sy vroeëre lewe en herkoms. Die doel is om hoofsaaklik stil te staan by hom as mens en kunsskilder vandat hy in Suid-Afrika kom woon het, en meer in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1988)Die kontroverse en radikale aard van Nietzsche se denke is voortdurend teenwoordig as ‘n belangrike invloed in die ontwikkeling van die visuele kunste in die eerste helfte van hierdie eeu. Dit is egter ‘n studieveld waarin ...
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