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Research Articles (Visual Arts): Recent submissions
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(Routledge, 2019)The article explores the reciprocal relationship between images and viewers by considering the relationship between the senses of sight and touch. I argue that images touch viewers at the same time that viewers touch images. ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-05)This article was prompted by the question of what had happened to women’s history from 1990. At that time, according to an assessment by Bozzoli and Delius, it had not (yet) developed into a “recognisable separate field ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2018)In this paper, I aim to analyse the homosexual sex acts depicted in the film, Inxeba (Trengove 2017). The analysis is informed by Lisa Downing’s ‘sex-critical’ approach that deems that ‘all forms of sexuality should be ...
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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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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2018)Aesthetic experience is a combined psychological, neurological, affective phenomenon. Aesthetic experience is not necessarily reducible to positive hedonic tone or positive emotions. It is known to occur when objects or ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2018)Data emerging from neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET) and neuroelectric techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG) contribute to, and often ...
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(Routledge, 2018)In various disciplines concerned with the perception of images the embodied nature of image encounters is increasingly receiving attention. A common premise in such investigations is that people’s embodied responses to ...
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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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(Routledge, 2018)In this article I argue that the thread spool installation, After The Last Supper (2005), by American artist, Devorah Sperber, negotiates the relationship between two modes of aesthetic spectatorship which operate in ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2018)Within the context of the New Digital Age, is there still space to explore the phenomenon of the soul? The soul is often omitted in the philosophical discourse of technology and its impact on being human, owing to the ...
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(Sage, 2018)Selfies have become more dangerous than sharks, if the 15 reported selfie deaths in 2015 are compared to the 8 shark attacks in the same year. Determining the exact parameters for a selfie death or death by selfie is ...
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(Routledge, 2018)This article focuses on how the black body, particularly black women’s hair, is represented in advertisements for hair relaxers published in True Love, a South African magazine directed at black women. Using qualitative ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2017)Experienced time, neural time and clock time are not the same. Temporality may be restructured due to psychopathologic experiences resulting in the perception that time may speed up or slow down, before the living present ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2017)Many rural craft initiatives in South Africa have as their core objective the alleviation of poverty. A popular assumption is that personal income or wealth is the primary solution to alter social deprivation. Economist ...
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(University of Nebraska Omaha, 2017-04)Situated within the Digital Age, where technology and science have made life in space possible, Alfonso Caurón's award-winning space-thriller, Gravity, explores critical notions of the relationship between technology and ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2017)In How to see the world, Nicholas Mirzoeff (2015:[sp]) elucidates that When visual culture became a keyword and focus of study in and around 1990, … it centred on the question of visual and media representation, especially ...
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(South African Museums Association (SAMA), 2017)The state of conservation in South African museums and other heritage repositories such as those at higher education institutions are in a state of crisis, which can partly be ascribed to a lack of professionally trained ...
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(Unisa Press, 2017-12)The character, Sophie, a domestic worker who is invariably deeply immersed in fantasy, appears throughout Mary Sibande’s oeuvre (ranging from Long Live the Dead Queen (2009), to the series, The Purple Shall Govern (2013, ...
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(Public Knowledge Project, 2017-08-31)There’s been a paradigm shift in design from focusing on aesthetic worth to focusing more on the interplay of form and function to assume social responsibility and to pursue social change through innovation. As a result, ...
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