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

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  • An appraisal of selected examples of Gerhard [Gerard] Moerdijk's work (1890-1958) 
    Jooste, Johan K. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2000)
    Gerhard [Gerard] Moerdijk (1890-1958) was one of the first practising Afrikaans-speaking architects. He was active from 1917 until the early fifties during which time he and his partners realized a large body of work - ...
  • Architectology® : architectural knowledge construction 
    Concepcion Diez-Pastor, M. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Recent theoretical debates on the sources of architectural knowledge tend to dissect architecture into a set of atomized disciplines, or else define it as a multidisciplinary matter. Such are for instance the most recent ...
  • Architecture : a self referential sign or a way of thought? Peter Eisenman’s encounter with Jacques Derrida 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Peter Eisenman’s relation with deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida, in particular, has been documented not solely by the architect himself but also by several other authors. However, the actual dialogue between ...
  • Architecture and the othe[r]eal 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper presents a reading of the Northern Cape Legislature (by Luis Ferreira da Silva Architects, 1998) as a form of Magical Realist design, where the limits of established design (i.e. contemporary architecture) are ...
  • Architecture as consumer space 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The thought of Merleau-Ponty, Silverman, Marx and Marcuse is a valuable repository of insights that may function as guidelines for ascertaining what would count as truly ‘human’ space – that is, a space that does not ...
  • Architecture, historicism and historiography 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper considers the legacy of historicism and debates within modern/post-modern historiography – especially in the work of Keith Jenkins, Michael Podro and Hayden White – and discusses how these crucial perspectives ...
  • Architecture, hybridities and post-apartheid design 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This chapter develops a methodological discussion on questions of hybridity in architectural theory and design, in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Reference is made to differing ideas of hybridity; from early ...
  • Are illegal squatters ruralising the urban edge? 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This article was motivated by a claim in literature that migrants are ruralising Third World cities. It investigates the impacts of migration - the fact that all residents are from somewhere else - on the form and function ...
  • Aronofsky's subversion of mainstream cinema through the neo noir "Pi" (1998) 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    This article investigates how Aronofsky's Pi (1998) subverts the visual language of mainstream cinema and the mass media at both an overt level, through the use of alienating techniques that encourage the audience to ...
  • Art and sacral space 
    Stupples, Peter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    ‘Art’ was originally associated with sacral spaces for the enactment of rites that bound a community into a culture. The objects created as ‘art’ were also imitated by secular authorities, enacting their ceremonial rituals ...
  • 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 ...
  • Art and the ethical today 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    What is art’s function today, in the early 21st century? It is argued here that, while art’s function has changed dramatically throughout history, its formal features are usually regarded as being paramount in ascertaining ...
  • Art as material culture 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    With questions concerning the physical basis and the material substructure of works of art as topic, the article surveys a number of related problem areas. These include the objecthood of art, art products as physical ...
  • Art, law and politics : the Vermeegeren forgeries 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article is based on a contribution to the Art & Law Symposium held at the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic, New Zeeland on 29 October, 2010. This symposium was jointly organized by the Dunedin School of ...
  • Artists' books : a postmodern perspective 
    Liebenberg-Barkhuizen, Estelle (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article wishes to examine the phenomenon of artists’ books from a postmodern perspective. As artists’ books appear to be a specifically twentieth century art form which intersects a variety of creative fields, such ...
  • Aspects of perspective and ambiguous space in the work of M.C. Escher 
    Mathlener, Rinette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Cartographers, mathematicians and artists discovered many of the rules for linear perspective before the Renaissance, but the mathematical basis to represent objects three-dimensionally was developed only in the 15th ...
  • Aspekte van mode-ontwerp met spesiale verwysing na enkele Suid-Afrikaanse ontwerpers 
    Groenewald, M.M. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1991-11-08)
    No abstract available.
  • Auguste Rodin's marble portrait bust of Gustav Mahler: a study of the beneficiality of a dialectical synthesis of opposites in life and art 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Steyn, Carol (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    In 1909 the composer Gustav Mahler and the sculptor Auguste Rodin, arguably the greatest composer and the greatest sculptor of the time, met in Paris. Both were transitional figures in their respective fields, representing ...
  • Author-architects and the moral right of integrity in copyright law 
    Lauterbach, Thorsten (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The agenda for current discussion in copyright law has largely been set by digital technology. But whereas issues like illegal file-sharing and fair dealing rightly occupy centre-stage, the issue of moral or author’s ...
  • "Avatar" : ecopolitics, technology, science, art and myth 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is an ecopolitical interpretation of James Cameron’s recent film, "Avatar". By ‘ecopolitical’ is meant that the film is not merely ecologically significant – in so far as it stresses the vital interconnectedness ...