• The Agora of Asia Minor : the shaping of the non-material by the material in urban space 

  Van der Vyver, Yolanda; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  Materiality to the Milesians was the ultimate state of being. To be was to be material and matter was the complete key to the nature of things. The Pythagoreans however, thought that mathematics and formulas could be ...
• Material, Motif and Memory 

  Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  Gottfried Semper’s contribution to modern (and contemporary) architecture has been inadequately explored. This is unfortunate, because Semper’s ideas on materiality and ‘artistic appearance’ (Semper 1989: 190) provide – ...
• Finding the best clay : experiences of rural potter Alice Gqa Nongebeza contextualised 

  Steele, John; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  When creating artefacts that belong in the material world artists choose specific raw materials for particular reasons, including that selected resources are accessible and well suited to fitness for purpose and expression ...
• Visual evidence of self-inscriptions of identity by marginalised communities in Mitchell’s Plain, South Africa 

  Hibbert, Liesel; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  This article presents a selection of photographs as evidence of community engagement at the local level, in an area near Cape Town which is heavily stigmatised. Press posters, public signage and linguistically visible ...
• A spatial analysis of the Ncome/Blood River monuments/museum complex as hermeneutic objects of reconciliation and nation building 

  Labuschagne, Pieter; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  The reconstruction of the Ncome Monument on the Blood River battle site has managed to restore the political imbalance to a certain extent. The Ncome Monument gives homage to the courageous Zulu regiments who attacked ...
• The perceptual totality of group design in sacred Classical Greek architecture : the approach and the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and the Panathenaic Way, the Propylaea and the temples on the Athenian Acropolis 

  Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  It is the contention of this research to explain the perceptual totality of composed groups of Classical Greek buildings in sacred precincts, as exemplified at Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis. The main proposal to be ...
• The manifestations of African art in Le Corbusier’s architecture 

  Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  In spite of an emerging African Renaissance, there is still no associated urgency in defining architecture with an African identity. This article explores the claim, made by the African American architect, Melvin Mitchell, ...
• Clocks for Seeing : Time and the photography of Ruins 

  Gaule, Sally; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  We read on the surfaces of buildings the accretions of time. The photographic portrayal of ruins offers a way to reflect on the ravages of time, and show the imprint of time. Once buildings lose their original purpose ...
• Conspicuous display : stairs historical and modern Part I : A theoretical introduction and examples of historical stairs in stone, masonry and wood 

  Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  It is the purpose of this article to explain how the stair as an architectural element not merely serves the function of vertical movement in a manner requiring physical safety, but has often, especially in monumental ...
• Materiality and the making of the Tswana house from the early nineteenth century to the present 

  Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  This study explores the various factors that impacted on the materiality of the ntlo, the house of a married Tswana woman and her children, from the earliest recorded examples in the early nineteenth century, to the ...
• The political significance of patina as materialised time 

  Konik, Adrian; Konik, Inge; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  With reference to Grant McCracken’s seminal work on the eclipse of patina through consumerism, this article investigates the compensatory dynamics of contemporary consumption practices centred on novel items rather than ...
• Transvaal Romantic : an exploration of Romantic elements in the landscape paintings of Moses Tladi 

  Coetsee, Ydi; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  Little comprehensive literature is available on Romantic expressions by black artists in South Africa. The work of Moses Tladi, a recently re-discovered Pedi artist, offers a unique perspective on the iconic landscape ...
• Book review 

  Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
• Art and the dream of self-transcendence 

  Hurst, Andrea; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  Given a fundamental ontology that takes materiality to be essentially “no-thingness”, I explore the claim that humans create art in response to the dream of self-transcendence. I unpack the paradoxical idea that transcendence ...
• The portrayal of slimness through design : an analysis of a misleading weight loss advertisement 

  De Lange, Rudi W; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  The portrayal of the ultra-thin ideal model in the media contributes to body discontent amongst some viewers of the intended target groups. This in its turn may lead to excessive weight concerns and so create a vulnerable ...
• The waning of socio-political relevance in the graphic design associated with popular alternative music among Afrikaans-speaking youths 

  Verster, Willem C; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  Graphic design often influences and reflects the subcultures of society. This was evident in graphic design associated with popular music during the 1960s and 1970s which captured the spirit of its time. The album covers ...
• Konseptuele kunstenaar Willem Boshoff se geheime briewe aan Nelson Mandela 

  Swanepoel, M.C. (Rita); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (gebore 1918) word wêreldwyd gerespekteer as politieke vryheidsikoon en ‘n geliefde leier bekend as Madiba. Mandela was 27 jaar in die tronk op Robbeneiland, in Pollsmoor en Victor Verster nadat ...
• Willem Boshoff and materiality according to Adorno 

  Swanepoel, M.C. (Rita); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  This article presents a reading of South African artist Willem Boshoff’s installation Writing that fell off the wall (1997) to illustrate how he used his material to expose colonialism and apartheid as inhuman ideologies. ...
• Materiality and time in Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) 

  Konik, Adrian; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  The focus of this article falls on the extent to which the digital time-images – or silicon-crystals – of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) function as a form of counterinformation within contemporary control society, ...
• The paradoxes of art 

  Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)

  Art’s paradoxical character lends itself to being elaborated upon by identifying several paradoxes at the heart of it. This goes for all of the arts – architecture, painting, sculpture, dance, music, literature and cinema. ...

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