Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 23 (2008) by Title

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 23 (2008) by Title

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  • The greening of art : ecology, community and the public domain 
    Ross, Wendy (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Environmental degradation, pollution and poverty are said to be destroying most countries worldwide. This article responds to the need for the recognition of the role that ecologically-concerned art can play in environmental ...
  • Intangible and tangible landscapes : an anthropological perspective based on two South African case studies 
    Muller, Liana (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The relationship between landscape and culture, or landscape and memory, is a developing discourse in anthropological and other cross-disciplinary fields in recent years. During the late nineties, tangible and intangible ...
  • Inter se nulli fines : representations of the presence of the Khoikhoi in early colonial maps of the Cape of Good Hope 
    Glatigny, Pascal Dubourg; Mare, Estelle Alma; Viljoen, Russel Stafford (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This paper deals with early cartographic representations (both cosmographic and chorographic) of the presence of Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope. While the boundaries of the Dutch settlement at Table Bay and the land ...
  • The intricacy of intangible cultural heritage: some perspectives on Ndebele earthen architecture 
    Van Vuuren, Chris J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Intangible heritage has become a discourse both in the institutionalised heritage domain and in the academic world. This article dismantles the concept, deconstructs existing mythologies, and illuminates some of the core ...
  • Jean Sibelius and his “monument” by Eila Hiltunen 
    Steyn, Carol; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Finland regarded the composer Jean Sibelius as a national hero from his youth until the end of his long life, although he composed nothing during his last thirty years. Outside Finland his reputation as a composer has been ...
  • Managing heritage in a contested space : the case of Le Morne Cultural Landscape in Mauritius 
    Bakker, Karel Anthonie; Odendaal, Francois (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The Le Morne Brabant Peninsula in south-western Mauritius is known for the imposing mountain of Le Morne that dominates the natural landscape. The peninsula is a contested place. During the time of slavery, the place was ...
  • Market streets in South Africa’s informal settlements 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The African market street is unquestionably one of the most contested spaces in the built environment. It is a busy, crowded place shared by traders, pedestrians and vehicles, mostly minibus taxis. This phenomenon is ...
  • Meetings with others: a critique of multiculturalism 
    Munro, Allan; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Multiculturalism can be celebrated from a positive perspective or criticized from a negative perspective. The postcolonial writings of Edward Said (1978) and Ziauddin Sardar (1998), although separated by some twenty years, ...
  • Memorialising the Freedom Charter: contested imaginations for the development of Freedom Square at Kliptown, 1991-2006. 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    An abandoned landscape at the heart of historic Kliptown was the site for the 1955 ‘Congress of the People,’ (COP) an anti-apartheid gathering of people from across the entire country which inaugurated the declaration of ...
  • Mnesikles : the second architect on the Athenian Acropolis 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Mnesikles was a Classical Greek architect, active circa 440, whose life cannot be reconstructed in detail. He was the architect of the Propylaea on the Athenian Acropolis, while adjacent buildings there, the Erechtheum and ...
  • Modernism, public space and public art 
    Raman, Pattabi G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    At some stage or other, nearly all artistic productions of modernism have been criticized as being arid, vacuous and unappealing to the lay-public. Undoubtedly, scholars have successfully analyzed, defended and presented ...
  • Mondrian’s abstraction: chrysalis or colony? A psychoanalytic and feminist reading 
    Kruger, Runette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This essay attempts to interrogate the notion of the female as ‘other’ in the abstract compositions of early twentieth century Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, notions also addressed in his writings. The existing (Freudian and ...
  • Nature and design: thoughts on sources and subjects 
    Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article takes the theme ‘Is nature the best designer?’ and, in order to show that nature was historically and remains today a viable, valid and relevant source of design, particularly surface and pattern design, looks ...
  • The political significance of ‘presentism’ in Annaud’s 'The Name of the Rose' (1984) 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Against the backdrop of Laclau and Mouffe’s perspectives on radical democracy, this article focuses on the way in which the phenomenon of ‘presentism’, or the retrospective historical projection of the axiology of the ...
  • The porous city as a model for urban renewal 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    In 1924 Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis described the environs and architecture of Naples as “porous”, explaining that its built environment resists any fixed or designated functionality. Their description reminds one of ...
  • Postmodernism, postsocialism and beyond, Aleš Erjavec : book review 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Aleš Erjavec is the Director of Research in the Institute of Philosophy of the Center of Scientific Research of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Ljubljana) and professor of Aesthetics at Ljubljana University ...
  • Reinterpreting public places and spaces : a selection of Krzysztof Wodiczko’s public artwork 
    Jekot, Barbara P. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The paper is motivated by Krzysztof Wodiczko’s public artwork. Wodiczko has been projecting images and videos into architectural facades that interfere with the social and cultural context. The intention of this study is ...
  • Relational provisionality : drawing as spatio-temporal critique 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article consists of two parts: the first looks back and the second moves sideways. In the first part, the author considers the background for her current research focus on contemporary drawing. In the second part, ...
  • Selected study of architectural envelopes controlling sun radiation - the integration of nature into design 
    Jekot, Barbara P. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article investigates light control devices in architecture and nature searching for possible improvements and inspirations in architectural design. The article will briefly evaluate sun breakers and louvers as well ...
  • Space as ritual : rethinking spatial strategies in the African city 
    Van Rensburg, Rudolf Johannes; Da Costa, Mary-Anne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    In this paper it is argued that contemporary architectural and urban space has become impoverished through the hegemony of a formalistic approach in architecture and urban design, and Modernism’s separation of subject and ...