Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 25 (2010) by Title

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 25 (2010) by Title

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  • Neuroscience and the artist's mind 
    Stupples, Peter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is a heuristic attempt to put art back into nature by trying to understand the biological basis of mind and its relation to the world. This relationship is negotiated at a physiological level by primary consciousness ...
  • Pornography, erotica, cyberspace and the work of two female artists 
    Grobler, Andrea; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article examines pornography and erotica as categories of representation, in which cultural and societal constructions and constrictions define the female body as passive and ‘other’ in relation to the male body. ...
  • The problem of originality and value in the Lady Michaelis gifts to the South African National Gallery 
    Tietze, Anna (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The issue of authenticity in visual art is critically addressed at the outset of this paper. This general discussion leads to a study of the works presented by Lady Michaelis to the South African National Gallery in the ...
  • The recovery of dialogue 
    Deane, Darren R. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The cultural richness that once made Leonardo’s "Paragone" possible quickly waned in the wake of the 18th century separation of natural science and fine art into competing systems of knowledge, leaving architects to contend ...
  • Time-images in Khyentse Norbu's "Travellers and Magicians" (2003) : the possibility of critical Buddhist cinema 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Like many other critical Third World films, Khyentse Norbu’s "Travellers and Magicians" (2003) is orientated less around meeting Hollywood entertainment standards, and more around a neorealist reflection upon the socio-cultural ...
  • Toward the poetic in architecture 
    Auret, Hendrik (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The Poetics of architecture addresses the “making of architecture” simultaneously as an act of physical construction and a mental act of construing. In the past it has been investigated as a scientific (rational) or artistic ...
  • Towards a dialogical design studio : mediating absurdities in undergraduate architectural education in South Africa 
    Coetzer, Nicholas (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The design studio is a key component of architectural education. In South African universities, the design studio tends to be dominated by what I call the Apprenticeship Studio. This teaching approach establishes the ...
  • A typology for 'waenhuise' in the vernacular farm architecture of the trans-Vaal River region 
    Naude, Mauritz (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The word ‘waenhuis’ has become synonymous for what is also referred to as a ‘wagon shed.’ Eventually, the term will disappear as the building’s association with wagons becomes less obvious. At the same time ‘waenhuise’ ...
  • What is out of sight and un-foreseeable : Pieter Hugo's filtered images 
    Schoeman, G.T. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article is a continuation of my exploration of photography with reference to the dialectics of historicity and expectation, archive and performance, absence and presence, theatricality and antitheatricality, visibility ...