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

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  • Monumental complexity : searching for the meaning of a selection of South African monuments 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    In this article I will try to answer two basic questions concerning a selection of representative South African monuments erected by different groups adhering to various ideologies. Firstly, what truths and values did ...
  • Motivation and the rain animal in the rock art of southern Africa 
    Woodhouse, Herbert Charles, 1919-2011 (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1989)
    The question arises why paintings and engravings were made on the rocks of southern Africa and also why the theme of the 'rain animal' or 'rain snake' was often executed. Motivation for the artistic activity involved is ...
  • Music and architecture : time and/or space? 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    It is a challenging task to think architecture and music together, given that they seem to be at opposite ends of the spectrum of arts. An attempt is nevertheless made to uncover what they have in common as arts, and ...
  • Music as an angelic message in El Greco's "oeuvre" 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Angels are assumed to represent messengers from God and in Christian art they are traditionally depicted as winged human beings. In the visual arts all figures are mute; therefore angel music as the divine message relayed ...
  • My people and other animals : Jacques Fuller's picaresque sculpture 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    The work of the Bloemfontein sculptor, Jacques Fuller, an interesting case of rural art at the margins of the mainstream artworld, has recently become known through a touring exhibition curated by Oliewenhuis Art Museum ...
  • The mystical visions of El Greco’s backturned figures 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article is introduced with a statement about the author’s involvement with El Greco studies and her attempts to understand the manifestation of mysticism in his art. The research focusses on the visual experience ...
  • Myth, ruin and self-exposure : Roger Ballen and the afterlives of images 
    Schoeman, Gerhard (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The departure point for this article is photographer Roger Ballen’s series Boarding house (2008), which is explored partly in terms of the antediluvian creature, Odradek, in Franz Kafka’s short story “Troubles of a ...
  • Narrative portrait photography and South African collector culture 
    Hattingh, Heidi Saayman; Minkley, Hannah; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This research involves an investigation into narrative portrait photography as an engagement with South African collector culture. Increasingly, contemporary photography projects concentrating on the documenting of the ...
  • Narrative shifts in architecture 
    Raman, Pattabi G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Attend a guided tour of the new Constitutional Court building in Johannesburg. At some stage or other the well-trained and polite guide will ask you whether you have seen any court building like this. Then, listen to the ...
  • "Natural Born Killers", violence and contemporary culture 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    This article focuses on Oliver Stone's controversial film, "Natural Born Killers", in an attempt to determine the relationship between its use of multiform images and viewers' reception of the film. Specifically, the ...
  • Nature and design: thoughts on sources and subjects 
    Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article takes the theme ‘Is nature the best designer?’ and, in order to show that nature was historically and remains today a viable, valid and relevant source of design, particularly surface and pattern design, looks ...
  • Nek Chand's rock garden and Le Corbusier in Chandigarh : reconsidering the primitive 
    Jackson, Iain; Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This paper is concerned with two personalities, Le Corbusier and Nek Chand, occupying, as it would appear, the extreme polarities of the creative spectrum, yet sharing the same geographic space of artistic production. ...
  • Neuroscience and the artist's mind 
    Stupples, Peter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is a heuristic attempt to put art back into nature by trying to understand the biological basis of mind and its relation to the world. This relationship is negotiated at a physiological level by primary consciousness ...
  • Nihilism in Japanese Anime 
    Olivier, Marco (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    In this article I try to show that one can use a conceptual framework on different kinds of nihilism, borrowed from Nietzsche, to understand certain themes in Japanese animated film, known as anime. First it is shown that ...
  • Norman Catherine and the art of terror 
    Jamal, A. (Ashraf) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    This essay was originally commissioned by Linda Givon of the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. The first movement - "Escape and Resolution" - served as the preface for the first major retrospective on the artist, published ...
  • On the question of architecture and identity, in post-apartheid South Africa 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Considerations as to personal and group identity seem to be everywhere these days, in the national news, in the latest pop/rap video and with respect to the very clothes that we choose to wear. Significantly, in ...
  • On ‘beauty’ : flowers in postmodern art 
    Lategan, Anita; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    In this article, Umberto Eco’s definitions of beauty from his recent publication, On Beauty: a history of a western idea (2004), are used to examine a selection of postmodern artworks that depict flowers either as ...
  • Opleiding van argitektuurhistorici in Suid-Afrika 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1987-06)
    Die problematiese aard van argitektuur in Suid-Afrika wat in 'n krisis- en oorgangsfase verkeer, moet nagegaan word, want met die oog op die toekoms sal die praktyk deurslaggewend wees vir navorsers. Voorlopig sou mens kon ...
  • The origins of art : an archaeological or a philosophical problem? 
    Avital, Tsion (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    During our century the demarcation lines between art and non-art have become vague to the extent that the continuation of art as a valuable component of culture is questionable. The history of art and aesthetics has so ...
  • Out of the musical box 
    Mendoza, Marisela; Halion, Simon; Quek, Raymond (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The present paper explores the correlations of music and architecture through a design studio project carried out by second year students of the Architecture programme at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. ...