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 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 ...
  • Space as ritual: contesting the fixed interpretation of space in the African city 
    Van Rensburg, Rudolf Johannes; Da Costa, Mary-Anne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s quotidian theories, space making is explored as an expression of a society’s collective mind. Spatial understanding is a function of culture. Spatial ability is the capacity to interpret knowledge ...
  • 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 ...
  • What remains: photographs, the corpse, and empty places 
    Schoeman, G.T. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This article explores the work of Sally Mann, Berni Searle, Ana Mendieta, and Shirin Neshat in relation to the trace-like emblem of the corpse. The corpse or corpse-like body is here read as allegorical of the body’s ...
  • Where is ‘utopia’ now : an exploration of contemporary Dutch utopian thought and art 
    Kruger, Runette (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, ...
  • Women’s ‘nature’ and architectural design 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    In this article I examine the startling work of Leonard Shlain on the provenance of certain ‘natural’,cortico-neurally based predispositions on the part of women as opposed to men, and offer an interpretation of his work ...