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

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  • 11 September 2001 : a change in the status of the image 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    This article examines the impact that the recent terrorist attacks in the United States have had on the status of images in contemporary culture. First, the event is related to what may be called the "terrible sublime". ...
  • Adriaan Van Zyl: Memorandum: Marlene Van Niekerk 
    Crous, Marius (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article examines the textual relationship between the paintings of Adriaan van Zyl and the novel Memorandum: a story with paintings (2006) by Marlene van Niekerk. The traditional assumptions about what constitutes ...
  • After image : reflections on a site specific artwork 
    Ord, Jennifer M. (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 1999)
    This article involves a discussion of the way in which it was attempted to image the multi-layered dialectic between a specific site and the elements of an added structure in terms of the relationship between form and ...
  • After the World Trade Center : architecture at the crossroads 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    This article addresses important insights concerning architecture on the part of the philosopher Karsten Harries, as well as issues raised by various contributors in a recent book on the aftermath of the September 11 attacks ...
  • "Agmine facto" : rampant rhetoric in Aeneid I 
    Shaw, R.W. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    This article is the product of continued research in Vergil's pictorial imagery, a topic addressed earlier in a paper on the Laocoon episode of the Aeneid, which appeared in the 2001 edition of SAJAH. The poet's visual ...
  • The Agora of Asia Minor : the shaping of the non-material by the material in urban space 
    Van der Vyver, Yolanda; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    Materiality to the Milesians was the ultimate state of being. To be was to be material and matter was the complete key to the nature of things. The Pythagoreans however, thought that mathematics and formulas could be ...
  • “Alcohol and Art”: Charles Davidson Bell and his cari-catured images of Colonial Khoikhoi in early nineteenth century Century South Africa 
    Viljoen, Russel Stafford (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    International interest in and encounters between Europeans and the “Hottentots” (Khoikhoi) of South Africa date back and span many centuries. Recurrent colonial encounters influenced the way in which artists, engravers, ...
  • Ambiguous associations : monuments referred to in the design of the Voortrekker Monument 
    Steenkamp, Alta (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In Gerhard Moerdyk’s communications, both orally and in writing, on the origin and importance of the design of the Voortrekker Monument (1949, Pretoria, South Africa) he often associated this monument with various other ...
  • An analysis of an Omani house in Stone Town, Zanzibar 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    The Omani houses of Zanzibar are the tangible legacy of ancient trade links and 19th century political domination. These elegant houses are climatically effective, and offer private outdoor living space in a dense urban ...
  • Anatomy as an expressive medium : a muscular and an exalted body in El Greco's "Christ Healing the Blind" (1570-5) 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    For Renaissance artists whose purpose was to portray human figures convincingly knowledge of anatomy, which is based on the dissection of bodies, was essential. In the case of El Greco, who received his first artistic ...
  • Angels in representations of the Baptism of Christ : a survey with reference to El Greco's innovative approach to the scene 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Workgroup of South Africa, 2000)
    Angels in Christian art mainly fulfil the role of intermediaries between God and human beings or messengers from God. In this article the focus will be on the inclusion of angels in representations of the Baptism of Christ, ...
  • Anton van Wouw en vroee Johannesburg 
    Duffey, Alexander Edward (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    This essay attempts to reconstruct the ten missing years in the life of the well-known South African sculptor, Anton van Wouw, from the end of the Anglo-Boer War to the end of 1910 when he received the commission to make ...
  • Anton van Wouw’s sculptures on buildings in Pretoria 
    Duffey, Alexander Edward (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    It is not widely known that South Africa’s most important pioneer sculptor, Anton van Wouw (1862-1945), received his initial training as an architectural sculptor. At an early stage in his career he worked for a concrete ...
  • The application of surface geometry to works of art as an aid in the exegesis of the visual image : the case for and against 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
    The application of geometric configurations to the surfaces of architectural elevations, reproductions of classical vases and sculpture, and Renaissance paintings based on perspective, for the purpose of revealing structural ...
  • An appraisal of selected examples of Gerhard [Gerard] Moerdijk's work (1890-1958) 
    Jooste, Johan K. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2000)
    Gerhard [Gerard] Moerdijk (1890-1958) was one of the first practising Afrikaans-speaking architects. He was active from 1917 until the early fifties during which time he and his partners realized a large body of work - ...
  • Architectology® : architectural knowledge construction 
    Concepcion Diez-Pastor, M. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    Recent theoretical debates on the sources of architectural knowledge tend to dissect architecture into a set of atomized disciplines, or else define it as a multidisciplinary matter. Such are for instance the most recent ...
  • Architecture : a self referential sign or a way of thought? Peter Eisenman’s encounter with Jacques Derrida 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Peter Eisenman’s relation with deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida, in particular, has been documented not solely by the architect himself but also by several other authors. However, the actual dialogue between ...
  • Architecture and the othe[r]eal 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper presents a reading of the Northern Cape Legislature (by Luis Ferreira da Silva Architects, 1998) as a form of Magical Realist design, where the limits of established design (i.e. contemporary architecture) are ...
  • Architecture as consumer space 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The thought of Merleau-Ponty, Silverman, Marx and Marcuse is a valuable repository of insights that may function as guidelines for ascertaining what would count as truly ‘human’ space – that is, a space that does not ...
  • Architecture, historicism and historiography 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper considers the legacy of historicism and debates within modern/post-modern historiography – especially in the work of Keith Jenkins, Michael Podro and Hayden White – and discusses how these crucial perspectives ...