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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 17 (2002) by Type "Article"
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Olivier, Bert
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
This article examines the impact that the recent terrorist attacks in the United States have had on the status of images in contemporary culture. First, the event is related to what may be called the "terrible sublime". ...
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Duffey, Alexander Edward
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
This essay attempts to reconstruct the ten missing years in the life of the well-known South African sculptor, Anton van Wouw, from the end of the Anglo-Boer War to the end of 1910 when he received the commission to make ...
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Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
The application of geometric configurations to the surfaces of architectural elevations, reproductions of classical vases and sculpture, and Renaissance paintings based on perspective, for the purpose of revealing structural ...
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Coetzee, Anton
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
This article is about the second semester of a new course that was first offered at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2000, namely Architectural Discourse. In this course the history and theory of architecture in ...
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Ord, Jennifer M.
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
This article focuses on a recently created artwork entitled "The Four Fields of X" - an attempt to frame an imagographic form of philosophical discourse in the hope that it would provide a model of signification not ...
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Naude, Mauritz
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
Erich Mayer is not considered as one of South Africa's well-known and significant artists. Regardless of this, South Africa has inherited a few thousand drawings and watercolour paintings from Mayer that are of incalculable ...
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Afonso, Luís
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
The purpose of this paper is to study the homology between the heavenly and the earthly kingdoms in late medieval Portugal. The analysis that follows, is based both on large-scale public iconographic programmes, namely ...
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Gericke, Elizabeth M.; Van Zijl, Carol
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
The information world of South African visual artists was investigated. It was found that artists need a variety of information sources. The most pressing problems are a lack of information about local artists, lack of ...
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Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
The purpose of this article is not to describe, but mainly to interpret the meaning of "Ise Jingu", Japan, as a unique manifestation of Shinto architecture. For this purpose, reference is made to ideas expressed by Japanese ...
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Olivier, Bert
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
This article is an art-philosophical interpretation of Kieslowski's film trilogy, "Blue", "White" and "Red", in terms of Gadamer's distinction among the three hermeneutic activities of understanding, interpretation and ...
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Steyn, Gerald
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
Lamu is a living town off the Kenya coast. It was recently nominated to the World Heritage List. The town has been relatively undisturbed by colonization and modernization. This study reports on the early Swahili dwelling, ...
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Liebenberg-Barkhuizen, Estelle
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
In her experimental carvings, Mary Agnes Stainbank (1899 - 1996) depicted the South African indigene as subject matter. She continued its use in the popular cultural artefacts intended for mass production,
which she made ...
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Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
The work of the Bloemfontein sculptor, Jacques Fuller, an interesting case of rural art at the margins of the mainstream artworld, has recently become known through a touring exhibition curated by Oliewenhuis Art Museum ...
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Konik, Adrian
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)
In "Requiem for a Dream" (2001), Aronofsky uses certain techniques of critical cinema to make the audience aware of the "constructed-ness" of the represented material. In doing so he goes against the "norms" of mainstream ...