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

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  • Heroes and superheroes : from myth to the American comic book 
    Winterbach, Hougaard (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)
    This article demonstrates that the mythological hero who appears in myth, legend and folklore has resurfaced in the twentieth century as the American comic book superhero. First, the differences between the hero and ...
  • Heterotrophic syntheses : mediation in the domestic architecture of Gabriël Fagan 
    Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Gabriël (Gawie) Fagan (1925) is a leading South African architect. His architecture is regionally rooted and can be described as a "new" architectural language that mediates between a love of the Cape vernacular, functional ...
  • Historicism as an aspect of a pragmatist theory of architecture 
    Coetzee, Anton (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    In this essay an attempt is made to validate the historicist theories that architectural practices change over time and that architecture can be interpreted as manifestations of the beliefs existing in particular communities ...
  • History is returning to design 
    Tzonis, Alexander; Lefaivre, Liane (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    I looked up “history” in the dictionary. The definition I liked best was, “study of the past.” Now any number of things can be the study of the past. Archaeology is the study of the past; it has more specific definitions ...
  • History, ruin and sacrament : the breaking of images and the breaking of the bread 
    De Villiers-Human, Suzanne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The current renewed interest in the phenomenon of iconoclasm (a form of ruination) is a symptom of the re-thinking of the image in a medium-aware milieu. When the medium is attacked in iconoclastic acts, images endure ...
  • An holistic approach to the appreciation of domestic architecture 
    Hickling, G.R. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1992-11)
    For man, the dwelling house is possibly the most intimate and meaningful building in the architectural spectrum. Too often the study of domestic architecture is approached merely as a cold intellectual exercise. Buildings ...
  • “Hollow” : reflections on practice, the artefact and the body 
    Du Preez, Linda; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article uses a rhizomatic approach to explore how the artist acquired experiential knowledge and insight through the experience and practice of making the expressive artefact “Hollow” (2011). Sullivan argues, “the ...
  • The homology between the heavenly and the earthly kingdoms in late medieval Portugal 
    Afonso, Luís (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    The purpose of this paper is to study the homology between the heavenly and the earthly kingdoms in late medieval Portugal. The analysis that follows, is based both on large-scale public iconographic programmes, namely ...
  • How far can artistic speech go with the use of famous trademarks & designs? 
    De Beer, K.E.A. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    On the 4th of May 2011 the District Court of The Hague (the Netherlands) reached a decision on the dispute between Louis Vuitton and artist Nadja Plesner. Louis Vuitton claimed Plesner had infringed the design right of ...
  • Huletts-hoofkwartier, Durban: 'n fenomenologiese ondersoek 
    Erasmus, Anna (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1992-11)
    Die Huletts-hoofkwartier in Durban is vanuit 'n fenomenologiese oogpunt ontwerp. Hierdie ondersoek dui daarop dat die gebou nie slegs die resultaat is van sekere funksionele oorwegings nie, maar van die fenomenologiese ...
  • Human rights and human wrongs: public perceptions of Diane Victor’s 'Disasters of Peace' 
    Rankin, Elizabeth (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    Diane Victor’s print series, Disasters of Peace, pays homage to Goya’s revelations about war but addresses the violence of peace in post-apartheid South Africa. The delicate line and tone of her etching processes seduce ...
  • Iconic bodies: Ndebele women in ritual context 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Ndebele women of South Africa have become prominent visual artworks in the international world of commodity tourism and African art. Pictures of women clad in ritual beadwork against the backdrop of their art on homestead ...
  • Ideas of space from Isaac Newton to Etienne-Louis Boullee 
    Terzoglou, Nikolaos-Ion (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    This paper aims to prove that a fertile dialogue between architectural history and the history of ideas can open interesting perspectives for the understanding of the process of design. This dialogue, offering a reconstruction ...
  • Identity in architecture and art : Versailles, Giverny and Gyeongju 
    Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper explores the different “identities” projected by the palace and gardens of Versailles, the house and garden of Claude Monet in Giverny (France), and Mount Namsan in (South) Korea. It is argued that the palace ...
  • Images and mediation 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper focuses on the question of mediation via images. Its point of departure is the work of Kant on the mediation of human reality by the faculty of reason, including imagination and the forms of space and time, ...
  • In search of an appropriate research methodology for investigating traditional African architecture 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    Africa's building traditions are under threat. There is a real need to subject them to rigorous scientific investigation to support conservation and explore indigenous knowledge systems. But the taxonomy is still immature ...
  • In search of architecture in virtual space: an introduction to "The Virtual Space Theory" 
    Ettlinger, Or (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Over the last decades, the terms 'virtual' and 'virtual space' have come to take an increasingly central part in our culture. Yet, they seem to acquire very different meanings in the various contexts in which they are used ...
  • 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 ...