Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 25 (2010) by Subject "Art -- History"

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 25 (2010) by Subject "Art -- History"

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  • Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    For Renaissance artists whose purpose was to portray human figures convincingly knowledge of anatomy, which is based on the dissection of bodies, was essential. In the case of El Greco, who received his first artistic ...
  • Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper is an ecopolitical interpretation of James Cameron’s recent film, "Avatar". By ‘ecopolitical’ is meant that the film is not merely ecologically significant – in so far as it stresses the vital interconnectedness ...
  • Konik, Adrian; Konik, Inge (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Taking as its point of departure the validity of Michel Foucault’s ideas concerning disciplinary power, bio-power, and the privileged position of sexuality as a focal point of their combination, this article furnishes a ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Van Heerden, Ariana (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    There are various concepts of optimal human functioning such as creativity, flow, peak experience and self-actualization. With suggestions that creativity and flow are interrelated, and possibly even interchangeable, at ...
  • Roshko, Tijen (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    This paper discusses the fundamental pedagogical objectives and methodologies that were employed in a graduate level interior design studio to expand the boundaries of applicability of the profession and to encourage ...
  • Editorial 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Editorial to SAJAH 2010 with the theme “The visual arts and the sciences".
  • Editorial 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    Editorial to SAJAH 2010 issue with the theme: "The processes of mediation".
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • De Klerk, Marna (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
  • Redelinghuys, Ian; Stevens, Ingrid (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
    It is possible that artists, in the making of memorials and monuments, might aid in the process of national healing after a traumatic national era or event. This, it is argued, is more likely to be achieved through the ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...