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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 22 (2007) by Issue Date
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)This article investigates the variables (principles) that can be used as criteria to enrich the static, physical model of space in the built environment. The social reading of place-making is excluded in this study. This ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)In this article, I investigate the hypothesis that the notions of “the beautiful,” “the ugly,” and “the sublime” articulate the incompatible dimensions of what it means to live the kind of passionate life that most befits ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)This article investigates the first and only visit of the British artist George French Angas to the Cape Colony in 1847 with specific reference to four Khoikhoi individuals he had sketched. These sketches were later ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)Discussions of architecture inevitably involve assessments of visual pleasure / displeasure. In relation to contemporary memorial space, such discussions rarely venture into the territory of the negative critique in the ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)This article formally-thematically considers a notion of 'relational being', 'non-anthropocentric being', 'the being of space', and 'the space of being', in the context of current, past and prospective technological practice. ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)Various postulates concerning the origin and purpose of the corbelled structures in the vicinity of the Assegaaibos River on the farms Farmerfield, Glenfield and Springfield, Eastern Cape Province (previously Albany District) ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)What is art’s function today, in the early 21st century? It is argued here that, while art’s function has changed dramatically throughout history, its formal features are usually regarded as being paramount in ascertaining ...
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(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.
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)In 1941, a new Dutch Reformed church was built in Pretoria West to the design of Gerard Moerdijk. The "Neo-Byzantine" design, developed and defined by Moerdijk homself, was not regarded by everybody as suitable for a ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)The Cape Dutch architectural revival at the time of the Union of South Africa in 1910 points to more than just an emerging interest in building preservation and the Arts and Crafts rural ideal germane to English architectural ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)Is it possible to articulate an aesthetic of the beautiful today, at a time when what Kundera’s character, Sabina, describes as the ‘uglification’ of the world, has become pervasive, on the one hand, and when, on the other, ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)South Africans have rich, complex and unique histories. Current South African society is similarly unique, non-monolithic and complex. The last twelve years of Democracy have not resulted in a coconstructed vision of how ...
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