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South African Journal of Art History Volume 28 (2013): Recent submissions

  • Narrative portrait photography and South African collector culture 
    Hattingh, Heidi Saayman; Minkley, Hannah; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This research involves an investigation into narrative portrait photography as an engagement with South African collector culture. Increasingly, contemporary photography projects concentrating on the documenting of the ...
  • Diachronic and synchronic identities of multicultural groups in South Africa 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Indigenous ethic groups and White settlers in South Africa historically established their various identities by means of their settlement patterns and architecture, in an indigenous, or compromised European way. During ...
  • Florensky and Malevich : the image and materiality 
    Stupples, Peter; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Daniel Miller claims that artefacts essentially not only have material existence – size, shape, texture, weight, colour, the substance from which they are made – but also the human value placed upon them, the context in ...
  • The pool of the psyche : water in the work of Ariana van Heerden and Kevin Roberts 
    Stevens, Ingrid; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Water is a material which pervades the earth and is the source of all life, the fons et origo (Cirlot 1971: 365). Humans are seventy percent water and it occupies seventy percent of the earth’s surface. As a substance ...
  • Marlene Dumas and the painting of (the) flesh 
    Crous, Marius (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Central to Marlene Dumas’s oeuvre is the depiction of human flesh in all its manifestations. By playing on the word “flesh” I will look at how she depicts children and nude adults in her work and to what extent the ...