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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 13 (1998) by Type "Article"
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Van der Merwe, Johann
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)
This article discusses the means by which a visually creative, artistic language can imitate the communicative abilities of a written/spoken language, making it possible to "read" a work of art as a visual text. Comparing ...
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Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)
The purpose of this article is to examine two significant symbolic systems relevant to the meaning of angels in Christian art. In the first part, a brief overview of Christian angelology is given in order to contextualise ...
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Cornew, Clive
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)
This article deals in the main with Jacques Callot's early life in Italy and with his later life in Lorraine where he produced his famous series of eighteen etchings which narrate his perception of seventeenth-century ...
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Van Eeden, Jeanne
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)
This article focuses on the reception of Irma Stern's first art exhibition in Pretoria in 1933. Although Stern had by that time gained a considerable reputation as an artist in informed circles, her Modernist work was still ...
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Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 1998)
The notion of multiple, concurrent readings is used to explore the status of pictorial textuality as a model for the art of painting. Being encapsulations of materiality, visuality, artefactuality and narrativity, paintings ...