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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 25 (2010) by Type "Article"
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Viljoen, Marga
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
This article focuses on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body and his explications of the body as mediator of the world. Merleau-Ponty's notion of the body which projects the cultural world around it by means ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Fisher, Roger C.; Clarke, Nicholas John
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
The oeuvre of Gerard Moerdijk, as practitioner and self-proclaimed architect to the Afrikaner Nationalist Project, used the opportunity of the memorializing of deceased personages taken up in the epic narrative of Afrikaner ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Steyn, Gerald
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
Whereas the merit of Le Corbusier’s Unites d’Habitation is still contentious, his contemporaneous unbuilt housing schemes on the French Coast are praised for their sensitivity towards history, climate and their sites, as ...
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De Klerk, Marna
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2010)
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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 ...