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The Paradoxical Garden, a practice-led study of sculptural installation as ecological intervention (University of Pretoria, 2019-07-30)The Paradoxical Garden is a collection of sculptural installations that focus on human-plant interactions in the garden to emphasise the connection between humans and their environment. Herein ‘nature’, as a human construct, ...
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(Routledge, 2023)In the medical literature of South Africa in the early twentieth century, Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees published a dehumanized portrayal of people with intellectual disability (PWID) who were institutionalized at the Grahamstown ...
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(Southern African Communication Association, 2016-07)In what follows the idea of the online double is historically contextualised and analysed. Beginning with the contemporary idea of the ‘selfie’ as online self-induced double, I proceed to discuss the Doppelgänger’s ...
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Perspectives from Material Religion and Visual Culture Studies on South African roadside memorials (University of Pretoria, 2020-08-31)It is a relatively recent phenomenon to see memorials as indictors of remembering the dead along South African roadsides. These memorials are expressions of places where death occurred. These expressions are arranged with ...
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(Routledge, 2014)This essay investigates photographs taken at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum during the superintendence of Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees, from 1890 to 1907. It examines two specific sets of photographs: first, the photographs ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-11-05)This study and the accompanying design project explore postmodern identity construction as a nomadic state of being in relation to the shared experience of space. The potential of the relationship between postmodern identity ...
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(Routledge, 2012)This article considers two cultural products that appeared almost simultaneously at the end of the 19th century in South Africa – the motorcar and the picture postcard – in terms of their joint avowal of technological ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study explores my experiences as a displaced person through processes of immigration that contributed to my hybrid identity. I narrate my experiences as a white, South African, Afrikaans-speaking woman who was affected ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Creativity plays an important part in design and problem-solving. While the role of play has enjoyed a great deal of attention in the study of both creativity and problem-solving alike, the overlap between games and the ...
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(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2016)This article revisits some of the controversies and debates that arose in 2012 over works by South African artist Brett Murray and his painting The Spear in particular. It aims to offer a more sober, profound and instructive ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Since the onset of postcolonialism in South Africa, cultural diversity was brought on by the political decline of cultural borders, mass-media infiltration, technological advancement and the disposition of postmodernism’s ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1989)Die doel van hierdie studie is tweeledig. Eerstens om 'n historiese samevatting te gee van die aanloop tot en die ontstaan en werksaamhede van die eerste georganiseerde pottebakkerswerke in Suid-Afrika. Tweedens het die ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This study explored the practice of creating subjective autobiographies through reflective methods and relevant theoretical concerns. Autobiographical bandes dessineés (autobioBDs) is a trend in European comics that is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)In this practice-led exploration, I investigate the aesthetic potential of household waste. With household waste as the object of investigation, I explore the cultural signification of waste in terms of the role it plays ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-12-13)Please read the abstract in the section, 10summary
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The princess in the veld : curating liminality in contemporary South African female art production (University of Pretoria, 2017)I aim to showcase post-African female identity through the exhibition, The princess in the veld. The exhibition displays selected works produced by South African women artists, underpinned by the proposed curatorial ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2015-05)By exploring the significant role played by the medical superintendents of lunatic asylums, there is a possibility of enriching our understanding and appreciation of the varieties of asylum culture. Said differently, by ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2013)Studying the history of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum under the medical superintendency of Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees (1890-1907), the nature of imaging the institution emerged as a point of interest. This article ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2004)All forms of material practice, including design, overtly or covertly manifest and reflect an inescapable ideological grounding. The overt display of an ideological point of view in design is defined as propaganda, the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1995)A number of the dimensions of human experience are considered in this study: on the one hand we try to understand something behind the mystery of art and aesthetic experience, and on the other hand man's need for fulfillment, ...
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