Browsing Journals (South African Journal of Art History (SAJAH)) by Title

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  • Disfigured ground : architectural space and representation in the creative practices of Dada and Surrealism 
    Chapman, Michael; Ostwald, Michael J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper examines how the representation of architectural space was radically repositioned in a number of creative art practices of the 1920s. The creative strategies of flattening, cutting, framing and transparency ...
  • Distilling an image of nature from Japanese Zen gardens 
    Van Tonder, Gert J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Humans are not only adapted to nature, but also adapt their domestic environment to suit their own needs. Here, I suggest that Japanese Zen gardens uniquely bridge these different formative spheres of our perceptual evolution ...
  • Drawing and mark making in "Johannesburg 2nd Greatest City After Paris" 
    Oppermann, Johann (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    In the animation film, "Johannesburg[,] 2nd Greatest City After Paris" (1989), of the South African artist William Kentridge, he combines his charcoal drawings and mark makings with photography, in what he calls Drawings ...
  • Drawing strategies at the Venice Biennale 2011 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article attempts to communicate the unique ambience and scale of Venice during its Biennale; to draw attention to four sets of questions highlighted by the 2011 event; and to focus on a few projects (including their ...
  • Dress and violence : women should avoid dressing like “sluts” to avoid being raped 
    Kwenaite, Sindi; Van Heerden, Ariana (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    Dress is integral to visual culture. Judges, cultural vigilantes and in some cases, females themselves, have expressed or supported the notion that a woman deserves to be violated for her choice of dress. Such choice of ...
  • East - West South - North : the villancico as carrier of visual, tonal and cultural art forms 
    Geldenhuys, Daniel G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The article deals with the origins and background of the villancico, explaining its role in the transfer and assimilation of cultures between continents. It deals with the resultant metamorphosis and "otherness" of the ...
  • Ecological ‘art’ and the transformation of the world 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    If the modernist artwork was autonomous in the sense of being subject only to the aesthetic laws of its own distinctive being, ecological artworks cannot be understood as ‘autonomous’, but – in accordance with ecological ...
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Editorial to SAJAH 2010 with the theme “The visual arts and the sciences".
  • Editorial 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Editorial to SAJAH 2010 issue with the theme: "The processes of mediation".
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Editorial to a special issue of SAJAH with the theme "Art/Architecture/Music".
  • Editorial 
    Bakker, Karel Anthonie (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Editorial.
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Response from academics in a variety of disciplines who have not given up on beauty, but are aware of ugliness and willing to introduce new applications for the sublime in visual artefacts.
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Design as a theme.
  • Editorial 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The South African Journal of Art History allows the 'art' in architecture to be celebrated and explored.
  • Editorial : Ruination as metaphor and process : ideals, damage, and the passing of time 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Bitzer, Rudolf (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
  • Editorial : The visual arts and the law 
    Kelbrick, Roshana; Stevens, Ingrid; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
  • Eenheidfaktore in die ontwikkeling van moskee-ontwerp 
    Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)
    Despite the immediately recognisable differences in form, construction, use of material and variance in spatial realisation between mosques throughout the Muslim world, they share architectural elements and principles. ...
  • The effect of media law on selected Zimbabwean editorial cartoons during Zimbabwe’s 2008 harmonised general elections 
    Mushohwe, Knowledge; Saayman Hattingh, Heidi; Economou, Inge (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    During the 2008 elections the Zimbabwean media laws had a direct impact on the way that editorial cartoonists expressed themselves. The study contextualises an understanding of the editorial cartoon as practised in an ...
  • Eight lessons from karesansui 
    Van Tonder, Gert J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    Eight structural aspects of Japanese dry rock gardens are presented as suggested conceptual qualities for probing the underlying logic of naturalistic landscape design. The aim is to better equip a methodic research ...