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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1991-11-08)No abstract available.
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)This article presents Gerard Moerdijk’s response to the challenges posed by the legacy of Herbert Baker in South Africa, through, firstly, those aspects of an architecture derived from regional response, namely local style ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)This article discusses the means by which a visually creative, artistic language can imitate the communicative abilities of a written/spoken language, making it possible to "read" a work of art as a visual text. Comparing ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1996)Before attempting to evaluate the monastic complex at Batalha, known as Mosteiro da Santa Maria da Vitria, as a sacred place the author considers the expressive aim of Gothic cathedrals, of which this edifice exemplifies ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)In this article, I investigate the hypothesis that the notions of “the beautiful,” “the ugly,” and “the sublime” articulate the incompatible dimensions of what it means to live the kind of passionate life that most befits ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)Is it possible to articulate an aesthetic of the beautiful today, at a time when what Kundera’s character, Sabina, describes as the ‘uglification’ of the world, has become pervasive, on the one hand, and when, on the other, ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)This paper considers several examples of creative work specifically situated in the city of Venice as an amplification of otherness made apparent through the city’s metonymy of the physical body. This is an attempt to ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)Colonisation as an ongoing process continues to obfuscate the real identity of a culture “becoming” in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In writing about aspects of my arts practice I touch upon certain Hericlitean, Platonic, and ...
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