Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 24 (2009) by Title

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 24 (2009) by Title

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  • The cemetery 
    Gluskin, Emanuel (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The Hebrew ‘El’ (as in Emanu-El) and Arabic ‘Allah’, meaning ‘God’, originate from the same ancient word, but what will be the future of the new cemetery in Kfar Saba situated close to Kalkilya? Can the background of the ...
  • Comparing altars and agendas - using architecture to unite? 
    Janse van Rensburg, Ariane (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    In this explorative comparison between the Voortrekker Monument (G.L. Moerdijk, 1949) and the Freedom Park project (Mashabane Rose Architects, 2003 ongoing) on opposite hills south of Pretoria, the obvious differences in ...
  • Contested modernism : post Slums Act public housing in Cape Town 
    Van Graan, Andre (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Following the introduction of the Slums Act by Central Government in 1934, the Cape Town City Council embarked on an ambitious public housing project linked to slum clearance being undertaken in the inner city areas of the ...
  • Current trends in South African architecture and the way to the future 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Few countries have ever had the opportunity to rethink their architectural dogma as abruptly and radically as South Africa since the few years leading up to the democratic elections of 1994. With only a few exceptions, the ...
  • Dance as art and as expression of harmony and psychosomatic totality : some psychological considerations 
    Tomassoni, Rosella; Fusco, Antonio (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The dance acquires such different and various meanings so that it can be considered as a complex polysemic form of non-verbal message [of which the] effectiveness can be compared with that of music and figurative arts ...
  • The dialectic of representation : the tension between the new and the familiar in post-liberation architecture 
    Wolff, Heinrich (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The aim of this paper is to explore the dialectic of architectural representation within the context of post-liberation self-consciousness and to present some limits and opportunities that this debate offers. The tension ...
  • A discussion of Xenakis and Varese, metaphor and simile, music and architecture 
    McEwen, Hugh (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper aims to examine the possible cross pollination between music and architecture through two of the most successful proponents of this translation. Since by its very nature translation involves an interpretation ...
  • Disfigured ground : architectural space and representation in the creative practices of Dada and Surrealism 
    Chapman, Michael; Ostwald, Michael J. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This paper examines how the representation of architectural space was radically repositioned in a number of creative art practices of the 1920s. The creative strategies of flattening, cutting, framing and transparency ...
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Editorial to a special issue of SAJAH with the theme "Art/Architecture/Music".
  • The (extra)ordinary (con)texts of beauty and be-ing 
    Kruger, Runette (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    This article aims to interrogate Japanese theorist Sōetsu Yanagi’s philosophical writings on Zen Buddhism and Zen aesthetics (as expounded in his essays published in The unknown craftsman: a Japanese insight into beauty), ...
  • Extra-ordinary cinema 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The proposed paper aims to articulate some of the possibilities of an ‘extra-ordinary’ cinema – one that would be consonant with what Deleuze indicates in his two books on cinema in terms of what he calls the ‘movement-image’ ...
  • The influence of the dominance of cultures on artefacts : two case studies – Cordoba, Spain, and Blood River, South Africa 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Conflicts that took place almost three centuries apart – respectively in late medieval Spain and nineteenth-century South Africa – are described in some detail. The Spanish example offers insight into the effect of the ...
  • I’m not there : on the ex-situ experience of landscape architecture in texts 
    Prinsloo, Johan Nel (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    An understanding of the relationship between text and landscape can benefit those who design and envisage landscapes to create places – physical or imagined – that have meanings beyond the veneer. It is argued that ...
  • Johannesburg : a lens for architecture and photography 
    Gaule, Sally (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Johannesburg’s built environment was shaped initially by the gold mining industry whose influence was indelibly writ upon its architectural symbolism. This has however, been intermingled and covered over by the residue of ...
  • Khachaturyan in Armenia today : his presence in Armenian music, art and architecture, rooted in Socialist Realism 
    Steyn, Carol (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Aram Il’ich Khachaturyan was born in Tblisi, Georgia, and spent most of his life in Moscow, but when one visits Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, today, Khachaturyan is all around you. His music, itself steeped in Armenian ...
  • Langa township in the 1920s – an (extra)ordinary garden suburb 
    Coetzer, Nicholas (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    Langa, Cape Town’s oldest black African township, was initially designed as a Garden Suburb aimed at re-housing residents of Ndabeni, Cape Town’s first ‘location’. Its failure – its lack of a bucolic English village aesthetic ...
  • Mbilamutondo music and instruments in Venda culture 
    Mugovhani, Ndwamato George (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    There is a decline in the performance and promotion of one of the significant African cultural heritage components, "Mbilamutondo" music. This heritage is facing possible extinction, and its disappearance may spell the ...
  • Mindscape : exploring living space in the urban environment by means of photographic interviews 
    Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    The paper lays emphasis on the importance of contextual understanding and interpretation for design purposes. It argues for the incorporation of concrete, living and changing realities in the analysis and design of the ...
  • Music and architecture : time and/or space? 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    It is a challenging task to think architecture and music together, given that they seem to be at opposite ends of the spectrum of arts. An attempt is nevertheless made to uncover what they have in common as arts, and ...