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

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  • The indigenous rondavel – a case for conservation 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    Open living areas and cattle pens surrounded by thatched round huts, commonly referred to as rondavels, is the form generally associated with traditional South African architecture. The number of rondavels is, ...
  • The influence of "botho" on social space in Botswana since independence 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Since independence, Botswana has developed from one of the poorest countries in the world to a middle-income country. In spite of rapid urbanisation and global capitalism, the ideology and philosophy of social interaction ...
  • The influence of the dominance of cultures on artefacts : two case studies – Cordoba, Spain, and Blood River, South Africa 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Conflicts that took place almost three centuries apart – respectively in late medieval Spain and nineteenth-century South Africa – are described in some detail. The Spanish example offers insight into the effect of the ...
  • Information world of visual artists 
    Gericke, Elizabeth M.; Van Zijl, Carol (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    The information world of South African visual artists was investigated. It was found that artists need a variety of information sources. The most pressing problems are a lack of information about local artists, lack of ...
  • Intangible and tangible landscapes : an anthropological perspective based on two South African case studies 
    Muller, Liana (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The relationship between landscape and culture, or landscape and memory, is a developing discourse in anthropological and other cross-disciplinary fields in recent years. During the late nineties, tangible and intangible ...
  • Inter se nulli fines : representations of the presence of the Khoikhoi in early colonial maps of the Cape of Good Hope 
    Glatigny, Pascal Dubourg; Mare, Estelle Alma; Viljoen, Russel Stafford (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This paper deals with early cartographic representations (both cosmographic and chorographic) of the presence of Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope. While the boundaries of the Dutch settlement at Table Bay and the land ...
  • Interarts practices ; the roles of drawing ; and implications for Art History 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    This article is based on the experience of an art historian-theorist working within the context of a tertiary school of fine arts dedicated to the integration of studio practice and art history-theory. Such integration ...
  • Interconnectedness and process in Cleone Cull’s visual art 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This paper is an interpretation of the recent work of the Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth artist, Cleone Cull, through what one might call a ‘close looking’ at the works in question (that would parallel ‘close reading’ of ...
  • Interpretative violence and Jacques Derrida’s professed love of ruins 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In this paper I examine two texts by Jacques Derrida, written at the beginning of 1990s, his “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority” and Memoirs of the Blind: The Self Portrait and Other Ruins written on the ...
  • Interpreting images from South African family photographic collections of the Anglo-Boer War period 1899 to 1902 
    Du Toit, Flip; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Photography’s truth telling technology enticed early photographers to capture images of war such as the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Many of these images include family photographic collections that were taken in and around ...
  • The intricacy of intangible cultural heritage: some perspectives on Ndebele earthen architecture 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Intangible heritage has become a discourse both in the institutionalised heritage domain and in the academic world. This article dismantles the concept, deconstructs existing mythologies, and illuminates some of the core ...
  • Invisible cities and primed spectators 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    This essay discusses the extraordinary travelling exhibition mounted by Alan Alborough as Standard Bank Young Artist of 2000. Reviewing its interaction with the art world's museum and art systems, an attempt is also made ...
  • Irma Stern's first exhibition in Pretoria, 1933 
    Van Eeden, Jeanne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)
    This article focuses on the reception of Irma Stern's first art exhibition in Pretoria in 1933. Although Stern had by that time gained a considerable reputation as an artist in informed circles, her Modernist work was still ...
  • Is figurative representation arbitrary? A re-examination of the conventionalist view of art 
    Avital, Tsion (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 2000)
    This essay attempts to refute the conventionalist aspect of Nelson Goodman's theory of representation that is still one of the most influential theories of aesthetics in our time. However, the primary aim of this essay is ...
  • Is the "Shroud of Turin" the first recorded photograph? 
    Allen, N.P.L. (Nicholas P.L.) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1993-11)
    In this article I outline some of the more prodigious characteristics of the Shroud of Lirey-Chambery-Turin's image and highlight the inadequacy of the various image formation theories postulated this century. A review is ...
  • "Ise Jingu" : a manifestation of the coeval past, present and future 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    The purpose of this article is not to describe, but mainly to interpret the meaning of "Ise Jingu", Japan, as a unique manifestation of Shinto architecture. For this purpose, reference is made to ideas expressed by Japanese ...
  • I’m not there : on the ex-situ experience of landscape architecture in texts 
    Prinsloo, Johan Nel (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    An understanding of the relationship between text and landscape can benefit those who design and envisage landscapes to create places – physical or imagined – that have meanings beyond the veneer. It is argued that ...
  • J.H. Pierneef - etser en houtsneekunstenaar 
    Marais, M.M.S.; Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1987-06)
    In hierdie artikel word aandag gegee aan die karakter van die kunstenaar J.H. Pierneef se grafiese werke. As etser is Pierneef betreklik onbekend. Daar word verwys na verskeie voorbeelde van die kunstenaar se werk in die ...
  • Jean Sibelius and his “monument” by Eila Hiltunen 
    Steyn, Carol; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Finland regarded the composer Jean Sibelius as a national hero from his youth until the end of his long life, although he composed nothing during his last thirty years. Outside Finland his reputation as a composer has been ...
  • Johannesburg : a lens for architecture and photography 
    Gaule, Sally (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Johannesburg’s built environment was shaped initially by the gold mining industry whose influence was indelibly writ upon its architectural symbolism. This has however, been intermingled and covered over by the residue of ...