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

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

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  • Can one "read" a visual work of art? 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Points of view are offered concerning the merit of the commonplace metaphorical reference to the “reading” of visual images or works of art as if they were, like language texts, composed of an underlying linguistic structure. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • El Greco, a mediator of modern painting 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Without clear articulation of their insights, except in painted copies of and citations from his works, various modern artists seem to have recognised that formally El Greco’s late paintings are mental constructs, representing ...
  • 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. ...
  • Images and mediation 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper focuses on the question of mediation via images. Its point of departure is the work of Kant on the mediation of human reality by the faculty of reason, including imagination and the forms of space and time, ...
  • Death, cremation and columbaria in the culture of Dutch Christian Calvinist South Africa 
    Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    From the earliest days of South African colonisation - through the offices of the VOC - there was the hegemony of Calvinist belief as it manifests in Dutch Reformed Protestantism in which death was preordained, inevitable ...
  • 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 ...
  • Circular structures and buildings associated with vernacular farm architecture and folk engineering 
    Naude, Mauritz (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The rondavel has become a typical feature on farmsteads but it is not the only building with a circular floor plan. Several other structures also have a circular floor plan. In Western architecture we have become accustomed ...
  • Heterotrophic syntheses : mediation in the domestic architecture of Gabriël Fagan 
    Barker, Arthur Adrian Johnson (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Gabriël (Gawie) Fagan (1925) is a leading South African architect. His architecture is regionally rooted and can be described as a "new" architectural language that mediates between a love of the Cape vernacular, functional ...
  • Comments on clay bodies used by two potters in the Port St. Johns region of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa 
    Steele, John; Ekosse, Georges-Ivo; Jumbam, Ndze Denis (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This collaborative study has brought together our various backgrounds in art history, ceramics practice, chemistry, and clay mineralogy, so as to contextualise properties and ideas about the clay bodies used by octogenarian ...
  • Mediation through materiality in post-mediative practices 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article is based on a conference paper presented at the 2010 SAJAH Conference at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. It poses some questions ...
  • Mediating between tradition and meaning in stained glass windows 
    Janse van Rensburg, Ariane (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The medieval church used stained glass windows to mediate between Latin scripture and the illiterate laity. Following the Reformation, Calvinist tradition avoided visual symbolism. In the Afrikaans Dutch Reformed Church, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Monument(al) meaning making in the "new" South Africa : Freedom Park as a symbol of a new identity and freedom? 
    Labuschagne, Pieter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Freedom Park was established as part of a postcolonial reconstruction of monuments to honour those who sacrificed their lives for freedom, as well as to enhance reconciliation and nation building in South Africa. The aim ...
  • Mediating public and private : three models of 'public space' 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is mindful of the increasingly complex mediations of public and private, and explores theoretical constructs gleaned from architectural thought and political theory, to derive ideas that are pertinent to our ...
  • 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 ...
  • "Coincidentia oppositorum" and "hankan gõitso" : aesthetic philosophies in the West and Japan - their similarities as expressed in architecture 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The concepts "coincidentia oppositorum" and "hankan gõitso" were respectively formulated in the West and the Far East (Japan). The essence of both is that harmony is created when opposites coincide in a structural unity. ...
  • Botanical gardens as experiential science and as living art : the relocation of the succulent section of the Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden 
    Middleton, Lorraine; Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This article argues that the educational power of botanical gardens goes beyond the scientific collection of data but also makes use of the artistic influence of the garden through the perception and experience of the user. ...
  • From Bordeaux to Barcelona - Le Corbusier's creative journey that went unnoticed 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    The evolution of Le Corbusier’s architecture from cuboid, slick and white forms, and the universality of Purism in the 1920s, to an earthy roughness, undeniabl[y] inspired by Mediterranean vernacular traditions after about ...