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

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

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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper explores the variegated spatial meanings of “the city” by way of Michel de Certeau’s reflections on “walking in the city” as part of “the practice of everyday life”, which he conceives of as allowing people ...
  • Peters, Walter; Du Preez, J.L.; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    To defend the sovereignty of the Conquered Territory along the eastern frontier of the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State (OFS) and Basutoland (Lesotho), the government of the former passed the Occupation Act, 1866, ...
  • Verster, Willem C; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Graphic design often influences and reflects the subcultures of society. This was evident in graphic design associated with popular music during the 1960s and 1970s which captured the spirit of its time. The album covers ...
  • Wolff, Ilze (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Cape Town’s Werdmuller Centre, an iconic modernist building designed by renowned architect, urbanist and teacher, Roelof Uytenbogaardt, is under threat of demolition. A questionable Heritage Impact Assessment conducted in ...
  • Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article contributes to the renewed interest in Le Corbusier by exploring a proposition by the African American architect and scholar, Melvin Mitchell, that West African art and architecture had a decisive influence ...
  • Lewis, Hester (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1993-11)
    Die noue skakeling wat argitektuur met die mens se leefwereld het, lei tot 'n bepaalde ervaring van 'n gebou of gebouekompleks. 'n Bepaalde 'genius loci', wat uit die sintese van die natuurlike en beboude omgewing ontstaan, ...
  • Schoeman, G.T. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article is a continuation of my exploration of photography with reference to the dialectics of historicity and expectation, archive and performance, absence and presence, theatricality and antitheatricality, visibility ...
  • Schoeman, G.T. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article explores the work of Sally Mann, Berni Searle, Ana Mendieta, and Shirin Neshat in relation to the trace-like emblem of the corpse. The corpse or corpse-like body is here read as allegorical of the body’s ...
  • Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    What are the hidden underpinnings of what may broadly be described as ‘vigilante’ stories, such as those in popular television series or films? What leads one to suspect that there are such out-of-sight presuppositions on ...
  • Kruger, Runette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The term ‘utopia’ originated in 1516, when Thomas More christened his imaginary perfect society ‘Utopia’. The name combines the Greek terms eutopia (‘good place’) and outopia (‘perfect place’ or ’no place’). In this article, ...