Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 22 (2007) by Title

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 22 (2007) by Title

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  • East - West South - North : the villancico as carrier of visual, tonal and cultural art forms 
    Geldenhuys, Daniel G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The article deals with the origins and background of the villancico, explaining its role in the transfer and assimilation of cultures between continents. It deals with the resultant metamorphosis and "otherness" of the ...
  • Ecological ‘art’ and the transformation of the world 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    If the modernist artwork was autonomous in the sense of being subject only to the aesthetic laws of its own distinctive being, ecological artworks cannot be understood as ‘autonomous’, but – in accordance with ecological ...
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Response from academics in a variety of disciplines who have not given up on beauty, but are aware of ugliness and willing to introduce new applications for the sublime in visual artefacts.
  • Editorial 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The South African Journal of Art History allows the 'art' in architecture to be celebrated and explored.
  • Flatness and immersion in Mariko Mori's Pureland: the possibility of a digital sublime 
    Raubenheimer, Landi (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The possibility of a "digital sublime" is investigated in this paper mainly as it may appear in a Cibachrome print entitled Pureland by Japanese artist Mariko Mori (Weintraub 2003). The pleasant appearance of the image ...
  • From starlight to pixels ; the luminous world of artist Lily Yeh 
    Zanzot, Jocelyn E. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Grass-roots, community art is typically not discussed in terms of the sublime because it aims to alleviate not provoke feelings of terror or shock, regenerate rather than exploit the disturbing vastness of landscapes of ...
  • 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 ...
  • A legacy of rondavels and rondavel houses in the northern interior of South Africa 
    Naude, Mauritz (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The rondavel has become synonymous with the settlements of the black people of South Africa but has also become a characteristic building type of European (white) folk building in white vernacular architecture. Although ...
  • Less is more or less more: perceptual health in minimalist design 
    Van Tonder, Gert J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The saying by Ludwig van der Rohe, that "less is more", has become a well-known truism about the supposed superiority of minimalism over other design forms, especially decorative compositions. Here, the avenues of ugliness, ...
  • Medieval perception of space and place in the architecture of Gothic churches 
    Lewis, John A.H. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Our appreciation of medieval church and cathedral architecture is reliably enhanced when we find contemporary indications of perception and cognition involved in the making of such works. Modern assumptions about these ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • Passionate living and truth-telling techné 
    Hurst, Andrea (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    It is a commonplace among philosophers that we actualize our humanity most fully by “living a creative life,” and that creativity is the response to desire or passion. In this article, I argue that Plato’s “cave allegory,” ...
  • Past imperfect: future tense. The response of art in a time of crisis 
    Hoffie, Pat (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This essay examines the effects of ‘global terrorism’ in terms of former terrorisms and questions the extent to which contemporary art can offer an appropriate fulcrum for reconsideration of the impact of such regimes on ...
  • Pretoria's golden Gospel Book: a study of a luxury seventeenth-century Armenian manuscript 
    Steyn, Carol (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    A 17th century Armenian manuscript, a Gospel Book, has been in Pretoria in what is now the National Cultural History Museum since 1897 and has never been displayed or studied. It is a particularly luxuriously illustrated ...
  • Re-wilding or hyperwilderness - plus ca change? 
    Haywood, Mark (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Re-wilding is an important way in which certain land managers, nature conservationists, national park authorities and others envision the future state of landscapes and nature reserves under their control. In some instances ...
  • Reconstructing the Ndebele grass dome house : an integrated heritage initiative 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    In this article, the cultural heritage of the Ndebele grass dome house is investigated. Multiple sources, ranging from the written record, oral tradition and archaeological evidence are applied, in order to reconstruct the ...
  • Rural potters in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: what next? 
    Steele, John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    Fired clay vessels created by rural potters in remote areas of the former Transkei, Eastern Cape in South Africa, hardly feature at all in thinking, collecting, and writing about ceramics praxis in this province. Yet, such ...