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

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

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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Fortaleza de São Sebastião en die Kasteel de Goede Hoop : ’n historiese en vergelykende studie 
    Ferreira, O.J.O. (Ockert Jacobus Olivier), 1940-; Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    From the beginning of the 16th century Ilha de Moçambique [Mozambique Island] represented for the Portuguese the most important port of call in the Carreira da Índia, the round voyage between Portugal and India. After the ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Design activism and the contested terrains of memorials 
    Ware, SueAnne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    There is an incongruity between the inherent changeability of both landscapes and memories, and the conventional, formal strategies of commemoration that typify the constructed landscape memorial. This paper will examine ...
  • The dimensions of space in the urban environment : three methodological approaches for designers that encompass the dynamics of urban space 
    Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This paper aims to broaden the debate on dynamics that influence urban space formation, as a means to a better understanding and as a reference for the South African context. The dynamics that determine the formation of ...
  • Architecture, hybridities and post-apartheid design 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This chapter develops a methodological discussion on questions of hybridity in architectural theory and design, in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Reference is made to differing ideas of hybridity; from early ...
  • Design and empathy 
    Kruger, Runette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The relationship between design and empathy is not unproblematic. Consideration of this relationship brings several questions to mind, including whether it is possible for design to be practiced in a predominantly empathetic ...
  • Tribute to a special woman, Abigail Nosapho Ncokazi: 1930-2001 
    Ncokazi, Litha; Steele, John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This tribute to maternal grandmother of co-author Litha Ncokazi is based on his childhood memories of growing up in the Transkei, Eastern Cape, in South Africa. Aspects of these recollections have in turn served as a ...
  • 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 ...
  • Empathy as perception in downtown Los Angeles and the Walt Disney Concert Hall as an act of architecture 
    Geldenhuys, Daniel G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The present article suggests that empathy is not the sole preserve of human beings, and that a city or buildings can also relate with empathy to people and the environment. The Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by the ...
  • A comment on 'Servant pouring milk' (Milkmaid) by Jan Vermeer 
    Gluskin, Emanuel (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The assumption is expressed that two very different, strongly mutually contrasting places are shown in ‘Servant pouring milk’, and this is the “hidden” dynamic of thought of this picture by a genius, which amazed, despite ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...