Browsing Visual Arts by Subject "Aesthetics"

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Aesthetics versus functionality : challenging dichotomies in information visualisation

Bowie, Anneli (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 ...
The Sublime in Visual Art : from the Romantic To the Postmodern Sublime

Miller, Gwenneth (University of Pretoria, 1997)

This dissertation examines the sublime and the context in which it evolved. To explore the changes that have taken place, the investigation around this concept has been situated within three moments: Romanticism, Modernism ...
Welkom in de woestijn van het dekoloniale filistijnisme. Esthetische reflectie te midden van radicale culturele strijd in Zuid-Afrika

Pauwels, Matthias Frans André (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-03)

This article engages with the theoretical challenges posed by what I call – in a non-derogatory sense – the philistine tendency of current decolonization struggles in South Africa, spearheaded by students at tertiary ...

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