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Browsing Visual Arts by Title
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2011)Information visualisation is an increasingly prominent practice focussed on making large amounts of data more accessible through visual media. Furthermore, an increased interest in the aesthetic value of visualisations is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This study, entitled African modernism and identity politics: curatorial practice in the Global South with particular reference to South Africa, postulates that perceptions of African identity in curatorial exhibitions ...
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(MIT Press, 2023-06-01)Sinethemba Ngubane is an artist who works predominantly in the medium of ceramics but includes sculptures in large installations. She was born in 1991 in Durban, South Africa, and completed a national diploma in Fine Art ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-04-21)Please read the abstract on page 369, of the section, 12summary
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(University of Pretoria, 1968)In hierdie bespreking word in hoofstuk 1 net 'n korte oorsig gegee van sy vroeëre lewe en herkoms. Die doel is om hoofsaaklik stil te staan by hom as mens en kunsskilder vandat hy in Suid-Afrika kom woon het, en meer in ...
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(Routledge, 2019)Drawing on social constructivism, and Stuart Hall’s representation theories, the purpose of this article is to examine themes of black femininity presented on the cover lines on the 12 front covers of South African True ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2021)In this article I engage South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga’s artistic practice to flesh out the complexities that arise from the intersection of the terms Black and queer. Drawing on diverse historical, social and ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2006)This article contextualises the typographic project, chronicles the type design process and offers some observations and comments on the design outcome. To this end it briefly considers the thinking underpinning the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)No abstract
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)This essay attempts to reconstruct the ten missing years in the life of the well-known South African sculptor, Anton van Wouw, from the end of the Anglo-Boer War to the end of 1910 when he received the commission to make ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2011)Traditionally considered to be the breeding ground of the monstrous, the limen is the non-place where hybrids congeal and mutate into extraordinary amalgamations. The latest cultural phenomenon of zef as embodied in ...
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(Routledge, 2018)South Africa in 2018 finds itself at yet another crossroads with a changing of the presidential guard set against a backdrop of protests, state capture and a growing disenchantment afforded by the euphoria and promise of ...
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(Routledge, 2018)In the mid-1990s, Jacques Derrida’s book Archive Fever (1995) sparked a lively theoretical debate that focused on practices of reading the archive, the relationship of the archive to power, and the gaps within the archive. ...
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(Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)To the uninitiated, it is quite probable that the results that art conservators derive from analytical techniques, may resemble alchemy, but they do not create gold from lead. Instead, they represent the composition of an ...
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(Unisa Press, 2005-04)In this article, the construct of the city is interpreted as a technological, artificial environment as well as a gendered construct. Within this context, depictions of the archetypal city dweller and the gaze in the urban ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)In this study I explore the Waterberg plateau, Namibia, through identified sand sites in the area, looking into their ecology, geology, culture, and history. I use sand as an artistic medium, not only for its aesthetic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)I am a black South African in my late twenties; had I been slightly younger, I would have been a "born-free". I was raised on the master narrative that South African history in the twentieth century was a struggle against ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1965)Reality is the verbal term for an abstract idea of something which is real, through existence and acceptance. Something that is, something that was and something that will be. A truth, a value that made the existence of ...
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(IGI Global, 2020)This article uses a philosophical hermeneutic perspective to present a reading of selected astronaut space selfies by drawing on ideas of Michel Serres, Paul Virilio, Hannah Arendt, Bonnie Mann, Joanna Zylinska, Nicholas ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2007)Contemporary South African printmaking boasts an uneasy relationship between classic printmaking and the attention-seeking gestures that have historically informed protest art, lending itself to performance culture. In ...
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