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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 23 (2008) by Issue Date
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(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 ...
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Exploring ‘place-making,’ city squares & other places : Cape Town’s pre-apartheid spatial politics (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)This paper explores the theoretical problems, contradictions and limits that architecturally-oriented ‘place-making,’ and the ‘city square’ typological thrust of place-making, evokes. The first part of this paper is a ...
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(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, ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)This article analyses how the poststructuralist deconstruction of fixed knowledge and universal experiences, presents itself in two opposing ethical positions in postmodernist art and culture. On the one hand the deconstruction ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)The term ‘utopia’ originated in 1516, when Thomas More christened his imaginary perfect society ‘Utopia’. The name combines the Greek terms eutopia (‘good place’) and outopia (‘perfect place’ or ’no place’). In this article, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)This article, taking as its point of departure the validity of Laclau and Mouffe’s perspectives on radical democracy, focuses, in particular, on whether or not neo-Marxist cultural criticism could, conceivably, have recourse ...
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(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 ...
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