Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 26 (2011) by Issue Date

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 26 (2011) by Issue Date

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  • Art, law and politics : the Vermeegeren forgeries 
    Schmidt, Leoni (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article is based on a contribution to the Art & Law Symposium held at the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic, New Zeeland on 29 October, 2010. This symposium was jointly organized by the Dunedin School of ...
  • Memorial complexity and political change: Paul Kruger’s statue’s political travels through space and time 
    Labuschagne, Pieter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    For more than a century the statue of Paul Kruger has served as a focal point of political uncertainty and change in South Africa. Since Paul Kruger’s statue was first brought to Pretoria after its completion just before ...
  • How far can artistic speech go with the use of famous trademarks & designs? 
    De Beer, K.E.A. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    On the 4th of May 2011 the District Court of The Hague (the Netherlands) reached a decision on the dispute between Louis Vuitton and artist Nadja Plesner. Louis Vuitton claimed Plesner had infringed the design right of ...
  • Interpretative violence and Jacques Derrida’s professed love of ruins 
    Proimos, Constantinos V. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In this paper I examine two texts by Jacques Derrida, written at the beginning of 1990s, his “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority” and Memoirs of the Blind: The Self Portrait and Other Ruins written on the ...
  • Geology and ruin as settlement generators in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur 
    Van der Vyver, Yolanda (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    When choosing a site for their colonial towns the Greeks favoured places that resembled the geological context of their native country, because they could adapt their familiar water management and town-planning practices ...
  • Getting away with it 
    Taub, Myer (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This paper applies an appropriation of leveling, as a performance / performance art construct, in order to contribute to the dialogue between art and authority in the post-apartheid city of Johannesburg.
  • Author-architects and the moral right of integrity in copyright law 
    Lauterbach, Thorsten (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The agenda for current discussion in copyright law has largely been set by digital technology. But whereas issues like illegal file-sharing and fair dealing rightly occupy centre-stage, the issue of moral or author’s ...
  • History, ruin and sacrament : the breaking of images and the breaking of the bread 
    De Villiers-Human, Suzanne (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The current renewed interest in the phenomenon of iconoclasm (a form of ruination) is a symptom of the re-thinking of the image in a medium-aware milieu. When the medium is attacked in iconoclastic acts, images endure ...
  • ‘Sustainable’ architecture and the ‘law’ of the fourfold 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    There are several senses in which one can understand a constellation that is set up between architecture and the ‘law’, the most salient of which is the way that the former is influenced, or directed, by laws of different ...
  • “Men are as great as the Monuments they leave behind”: Wilhelm O Meyer and the (Rand Afrikaans) University of Johannesburg, Kingsway Campus 
    Peters, Walter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The article covers the exclusion of an architect from further work on his magnum opus. At issue is an agreement reached after a successful collaboration over almost eight years, breached before it could take effect. The ...
  • Redress-un-dressed : introducing a play of judicial and aesthetic processes of redress 
    Rust, Elgin (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The documents compiled for this journal are extracts from the mini-dissertation part of the Fine Art Masters redress1-un-dressed, ADVOCATE ALICE PRESENTS: R v JR 2010, completed in 2010 at the University of Cape Town. ...
  • Le Corbusier’s research-based design approaches 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The ability to convincingly demonstrate the integration of and reciprocal dynamic between research and product in design assignments is now a prerequisite at most institutions of architectural learning. Due to the creative ...
  • From ruination to renewal: the critical value of a proto-crystalline regime in German expressionist cinema 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, Gilles Deleuze maintains that cinematic time-images first emerged after World War Two against the backdrop of the ‘any-space-whatever’ reflected in Italian ...
  • The dialectic of ruin 
    Viljoen, Marga (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article focuses on the ambiguous aspects of 'ruin' in its different appearances - as visible material phenomenon and as concept or idea. The word 'ruin' implies the dialectic of passivity and action; the specific and ...
  • Ambiguous associations : monuments referred to in the design of the Voortrekker Monument 
    Steenkamp, Alta (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    In Gerhard Moerdyk’s communications, both orally and in writing, on the origin and importance of the design of the Voortrekker Monument (1949, Pretoria, South Africa) he often associated this monument with various other ...
  • Myth, ruin and self-exposure : Roger Ballen and the afterlives of images 
    Schoeman, Gerhard (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    The departure point for this article is photographer Roger Ballen’s series Boarding house (2008), which is explored partly in terms of the antediluvian creature, Odradek, in Franz Kafka’s short story “Troubles of a ...
  • The mystical visions of El Greco’s backturned figures 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article is introduced with a statement about the author’s involvement with El Greco studies and her attempts to understand the manifestation of mysticism in his art. The research focusses on the visual experience ...
  • Editorial : Ruination as metaphor and process : ideals, damage, and the passing of time 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Bitzer, Rudolf (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
  • Interconnectedness and process in Cleone Cull’s visual art 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This paper is an interpretation of the recent work of the Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth artist, Cleone Cull, through what one might call a ‘close looking’ at the works in question (that would parallel ‘close reading’ of ...
  • Adriaan Van Zyl: Memorandum: Marlene Van Niekerk 
    Crous, Marius (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2011)
    This article examines the textual relationship between the paintings of Adriaan van Zyl and the novel Memorandum: a story with paintings (2006) by Marlene van Niekerk. The traditional assumptions about what constitutes ...