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

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  • Towards an understanding of the vernacular : nineteenth century Boer-made chairs in the collection of the National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria 
    Botes, Nico (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This article introduces ongoing research on nineteenth century Boer-made chairs housed in the collection of the National Cultural History Museum. Motivated by a lack of locally published research, the inquiry is informed ...
  • Trading store style' - an indelible phenomenon in the historical landscape of KwaZulu-Natal 
    Whelan, Debbie (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The trading store is a critically understudied phenomenon, dotted around the varied landscapes of Southern Africa, often marking out physical borders, cognitive boundaries and spatial edges. The emergence of the store ...
  • Transvaal Romantic : an exploration of Romantic elements in the landscape paintings of Moses Tladi 
    Coetsee, Ydi; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Little comprehensive literature is available on Romantic expressions by black artists in South Africa. The work of Moses Tladi, a recently re-discovered Pedi artist, offers a unique perspective on the iconic landscape ...
  • Tribute to a special woman, Abigail Nosapho Ncokazi: 1930-2001 
    Ncokazi, Litha; Steele, John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This tribute to maternal grandmother of co-author Litha Ncokazi is based on his childhood memories of growing up in the Transkei, Eastern Cape, in South Africa. Aspects of these recollections have in turn served as a ...
  • Tussen ootmoet en ekstase 
    Miles, Elza (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1992-11)
    No abstract available
  • Two hitherto totally unknown Van Wouws 
    Duffey, Alexander Edward (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    The art world is inevitably delighted when new works by an established pioneer artist are discovered, because it not only fills in the gaps in his/her oeuvre, but it also extends our knowledge of the creative potential of ...
  • Two traditional African settlements - context and configuration 
    Steyn, Gerald; Roodt, André (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    Vernacular African settlements and buildings are widely appreciated for their human scale, aesthetic clarity and harmony with nature. But this appreciation appears to be limited to their iconic and picturesque qualities, ...
  • Types and typologies of African urbanism 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This article responds to the rapid urbanisation of sub-Saharan Africa. It laments the loss and deterioration of its pre-colonial urban artefacts due to neglect and even war, and pleads for their conservation and the ...
  • Typological form in the architecture of Gabriel (Gawie) Fagan (1925-) 
    Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Gabriël (Gawie) Fagan (1925-) is a leading South African architect. His architecture is regionally rooted and can be described as a “new” architecture that mediates between a love of the Cape vernacular, functional ...
  • A typology for 'waenhuise' in the vernacular farm architecture of the trans-Vaal River region 
    Naude, Mauritz (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The word ‘waenhuis’ has become synonymous for what is also referred to as a ‘wagon shed.’ Eventually, the term will disappear as the building’s association with wagons becomes less obvious. At the same time ‘waenhuise’ ...
  • The use and abuse of European architectural history in a post-colonial South Africa 
    Coetzee, Anton (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 2000)
    In this article the problems of teaching and studying the history of European achitecture in a post-colonial South Africa are addressed. Approaches to the history of European architecture that encourage admiration and ...
  • The use-value of “nature”: projection and estrangement or dialogue and mediation? 
    Lonie, Bridie (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    Notions of nature have been vital for the visual arts since the advent of Romanticism. However the stability of “nature” as a concept has changed dramatically. A range of autopoetic theories in the work of writers such ...
  • "Ut pictura poesis" : Vergil's Laocoön and beyond 
    Shaw, R.W. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    The liberal arts are not contained by specific boundaries, and with this assertion the artist is free to extract material from other idioms and reap inspirations from literary antecedents outside his immediate domain. Such ...
  • Van Brandenburg unfurled: architecture in the expanded field of contemporary practice 
    Schmidt, Leoni; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article considers a current project undertaken by Architecture Van Brandenburg in Shenzhen, China. Locating, touching, mimicking, integrating, crafting, unfurling and exhibiting are subheadings used to discuss salient ...
  • Venster op die stad 
    Van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1991-11-08)
    Ons kyk daagliks na die stad, maar wat sien ons? Dit maak nogal saak wie die 'ons' is wat na die stad kyk en hoe ons kyk, wat ons eie lewensgeskiedenisse en wat ons uitsigte op die lewe is. Vreemdes sien die stad aansienlik ...
  • Victorian domestic interiors as subliminal space 
    Karusseit, Catherine (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The Victorian notion of beauty was encapsulated in their obsession with the ideology of respectability. Respectability, a complex combination of moral, religious, economic and cultural systems,was organised around an ...
  • Vincent Van Gogh : op die spoor van die waarheid 
    Smuts, Timo (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1991-11-08)
    Die lewe en werk van Van Gogh is al uit soveel perspektiewe betrag dat produktiewe beweging in enige diskoers oor sy werk bykans onmoontlik lyk. In die artikel word enkele poststrukturalistiese strategiee gebruik in 'n ...
  • Visual evidence of self-inscriptions of identity by marginalised communities in Mitchell’s Plain, South Africa 
    Hibbert, Liesel; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This article presents a selection of photographs as evidence of community engagement at the local level, in an area near Cape Town which is heavily stigmatised. Press posters, public signage and linguistically visible ...
  • Visualising the merging of culture from an ‘other’ perspective 
    Keogh, Sarah; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper reflects on the challenges of cultural identity in an increasingly globalised society. As the individual questions their identity within a surge of globalisation, and with it a dominant Western viewpoint, so ...
  • Vorm-funksie-verband van Hindoetempels in Johannesburg 
    Schmidt, Leoni; Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1987-06)
    In hierdie artikel word daar gekonsentreer op die beskrywing en interpretering van twee Hindoetempels in Johannesburg. Die twee tempels is geselekteer vir bespreking as synde verteenwoordigend van alternatiewe in die ...