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

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  • Mbilamutondo music and instruments in Venda culture 
    Mugovhani, Ndwamato George (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    There is a decline in the performance and promotion of one of the significant African cultural heritage components, "Mbilamutondo" music. This heritage is facing possible extinction, and its disappearance may spell the ...
  • Mediating between tradition and meaning in stained glass windows 
    Janse van Rensburg, Ariane (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The medieval church used stained glass windows to mediate between Latin scripture and the illiterate laity. Following the Reformation, Calvinist tradition avoided visual symbolism. In the Afrikaans Dutch Reformed Church, ...
  • Mediating public and private : three models of 'public space' 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is mindful of the increasingly complex mediations of public and private, and explores theoretical constructs gleaned from architectural thought and political theory, to derive ideas that are pertinent to our ...
  • Mediation through materiality in post-mediative practices 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article is based on a conference paper presented at the 2010 SAJAH Conference at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. It poses some questions ...
  • The medieval and Renaissance manuscripts of the Grey Collection catalogued 
    Steyn, Carol (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    The purpose of this article is twofold: to make known the publication of a comprehensive catalogue of the medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Grey Collection of the National Library, Cape Town, and to give an ...
  • Medieval perception of space and place in the architecture of Gothic churches 
    Lewis, John A.H. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Our appreciation of medieval church and cathedral architecture is reliably enhanced when we find contemporary indications of perception and cognition involved in the making of such works. Modern assumptions about these ...
  • Meetings with others: a critique of multiculturalism 
    Munro, Allan; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Multiculturalism can be celebrated from a positive perspective or criticized from a negative perspective. The postcolonial writings of Edward Said (1978) and Ziauddin Sardar (1998), although separated by some twenty years, ...
  • Memorial complexity and political change: Paul Kruger’s statue’s political travels through space and time 
    Labuschagne, Pieter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    For more than a century the statue of Paul Kruger has served as a focal point of political uncertainty and change in South Africa. Since Paul Kruger’s statue was first brought to Pretoria after its completion just before ...
  • Memorialising the Freedom Charter: contested imaginations for the development of Freedom Square at Kliptown, 1991-2006. 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    An abandoned landscape at the heart of historic Kliptown was the site for the 1955 ‘Congress of the People,’ (COP) an anti-apartheid gathering of people from across the entire country which inaugurated the declaration of ...
  • Memories, a monument and its meaning : the monument on the site of the Samora Machel plane crash 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    The 1986 plane crash of former Mozambican president Samora Machel and the erection of a monument at Mbuzini have raised questions about the transformation of memory as a repository of oral tradition, its conversion into ...
  • “Men are as great as the Monuments they leave behind”: Wilhelm O Meyer and the (Rand Afrikaans) University of Johannesburg, Kingsway Campus 
    Peters, Walter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The article covers the exclusion of an architect from further work on his magnum opus. At issue is an agreement reached after a successful collaboration over almost eight years, breached before it could take effect. The ...
  • Merleau-Ponty and painting 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    This article takes as its point of departure the question whether, in an age when "artforms" such as multimedia "installations" - which combine visual motifs of all kinds with written texts - seem to be an adequate reflection ...
  • Methodology in the recording of rock paintings 
    Lee, D.N. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)
    Daar bestaan 'n groeiende belangstelling in die belangrike rol wat San-rotsskilderinge speel in ons nasionale erfenis. Hierdie belangstelling het gelei tot 'n besef van die vinnige agteruitgang van hierdie werke, as gevolg ...
  • The mindful landscape : a healing outdoor experience for Weskoppies psychiatric hospital 
    Van der Walt, Ralene; Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    According to the World Health Organisation mental illnesses have consistently increased over the past century, resulting in undisputed social and economical consequences. The confinement of patients to mental institutions ...
  • Mindscape : exploring living space in the urban environment by means of photographic interviews 
    Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The paper lays emphasis on the importance of contextual understanding and interpretation for design purposes. It argues for the incorporation of concrete, living and changing realities in the analysis and design of the ...
  • The "Mine" metaphor in the work of William Kentridge 
    Oppermann, Johann (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    This article discusses how Kentridge's drawings for his film "Mime" ["Mine"], explore the borders between memory and amnesia, drawing and erasure. His drawings reflect a rich record and leave traces of the animation ...
  • Mite as metafoor vir kreatiwiteit in Picasso se "Blinde Minotaurus gelei deur 'n meisie met 'n wilde bos blomme" (1934) ("Vollard-suite") 
    Theron, Antoinette L. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1993-11)
    Die simboliese betekenis van Picasso se uitbeelding van mitologiese figure as verwysing na Dionysiese kreatiwiteit word ondersoek. Dit word in die gebruik van mite in surrealitiese kuns gekontekstualiseer. Ten slotte word ...
  • Mnesikles : the second architect on the Athenian Acropolis 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Mnesikles was a Classical Greek architect, active circa 440, whose life cannot be reconstructed in detail. He was the architect of the Propylaea on the Athenian Acropolis, while adjacent buildings there, the Erechtheum and ...
  • Modernism, public space and public art 
    Raman, Pattabi G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    At some stage or other, nearly all artistic productions of modernism have been criticized as being arid, vacuous and unappealing to the lay-public. Undoubtedly, scholars have successfully analyzed, defended and presented ...
  • Moerdijk and the shadow of Baker 
    Fisher, Roger C. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    Moerdijk, in his formative years as architect, held Baker and his patron, Rhodes, in high regard. But in his maturity he made little, if any reference to Baker’s influence or even legacy in the making of South African ...