dc.contributor.author |
Steyn, Gerald
|
|
dc.contributor.editor |
Mare, Estelle Alma |
|
dc.date.accessioned |
2015-07-09T12:21:20Z |
|
dc.date.available |
2015-07-09T12:21:20Z |
|
dc.date.created |
2013 |
|
dc.date.issued |
2013 |
|
dc.description.abstract |
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, that West African art (especially the mask) shaped Le Corbusier’s work via cubism.
This research relies mainly on formalistic and visual comparisons of typologies and forms, informed
by relatively recent literature on the theme of cubism and modernist architecture. There seems to
be a considerable alignment between some aspects of Le Corbusier’s schemes, and examples of
art and architecture from sub-Saharan Africa. Although the findings are impossible to substantiate
definitively, they do suggest that there is a need to approach the study of both modernism and African
art differently, but explored in conjunction with one another. As such, this article contributes to the
idea of Le Corbusier’s unfinished project. |
en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract |
Ten spyte van ’n opkomende Afrika Renaissance is daar steeds geen gepaardgaande dringendheid om
argitektuur met ’n Afrika-identiteit te definieer nie. Hierdie artikel ondersoek die Afrika Amerikaanse
argitek, Melvin Mitchell, se bewering dat die kuns van Wes-Afrika, in besonders die masker, Le
Corbusier se werk via kubisme gevorm het. Hierdie navorsing maak hoofsaaklik staat op formalistiese
en visuele vergelykings van tipologieë en vorms, toegelig met betreklik onlangse literatuur oor die
tema van kubisme en moderne argitektuur. Daar blyk aansienlike ooreenstemming te wees tussen
sommige aspekte van Le Corbusier se skemas en voorbeelde van kuns en argitektuur uit sub-Sahara
Afrika. Hoewel dit onmoontlik is om die bevindinge beslissend te bevestig, dui hulle daarop dat daar
’n behoefte bestaan om die studie van beide modernisme en Afrika-kuns anders te benader, maar
ook dat hulle saam ondersoek behoort te word. As sulks dra hierdie artikel by tot die idee van Le
Corbusier se onvoltooide projek. |
en_ZA |
dc.description.uri |
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/sajah |
en_ZA |
dc.format.extent |
23 Pages |
en_ZA |
dc.format.medium |
PDF |
en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation |
Steyn, G 2013, 'The manifestations of African art in Le Corbusier’s architecture', South African Journal of Art History, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 133-155. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_sajah.html] |
en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn |
0258-3542 |
|
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46852 |
|
dc.language.iso |
en |
en_ZA |
dc.publisher |
Art Historical Work Group of South Africa |
en_ZA |
dc.rights |
Art Historical Work Group of South Africa |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Melvin Mitchell |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Cubism |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Purism |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
African art |
en_ZA |
dc.subject |
Le Corbusier |
en_ZA |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Art -- History |
|
dc.subject.lcsh |
Architecture -- History |
|
dc.title |
The manifestations of African art in Le Corbusier’s architecture |
en_ZA |
dc.title.alternative |
Die manifestasie van Afrika-kuns in Le Corbusier se argitektuur |
en_ZA |
dc.type |
Article |
en_ZA |