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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  • 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 ...
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Design as a theme.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Editorial 
    Bakker, Karel Anthonie (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    Editorial.
  • 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 ...
  • The bold, the beautiful, and the ugly: reflections occasioned by a beautiful book edited by Sarah Nuttall: review article 
    Kistner, Ulrike (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    The book entitled Beautiful Ugly. African and Diaspora Aesthetics (2006) was heralded by its editor as a beautiful book. ‘Beautiful’ it certainly is, in a manner of speaking. The correspondence set up between its description ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • From flatness to centeredness : defining empathy in design and why nature is the best designer 
    Van Bergen, Jan Willem (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    In this article I will be elaborating a position first articulated by R. Buckminster Fuller. This position is that the geometry we rely on to inform and motivate our acts is central to our being in the world, and hence our ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • “Alcohol and Art”: Charles Davidson Bell and his cari-catured images of Colonial Khoikhoi in early nineteenth century Century South Africa 
    Viljoen, Russel Stafford (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, ...