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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 28 (2013) by Issue Date
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Daniel Miller claims that artefacts essentially not only have material existence – size, shape, texture, weight, colour, the substance from which they are made – but also the human value placed upon them, the context in ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (gebore 1918) word wêreldwyd gerespekteer as politieke vryheidsikoon en ‘n geliefde leier bekend as Madiba. Mandela was 27 jaar in die tronk op Robbeneiland, in Pollsmoor en Victor Verster nadat ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Given a fundamental ontology that takes materiality to be essentially “no-thingness”, I explore the claim that humans create art in response to the dream of self-transcendence. I unpack the paradoxical idea that transcendence ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)The portrayal of the ultra-thin ideal model in the media contributes to body discontent amongst some viewers of the intended target groups. This in its turn may lead to excessive weight concerns and so create a vulnerable ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)The reconstruction of the Ncome Monument on the Blood River battle site has managed to restore the political imbalance to a certain extent. The Ncome Monument gives homage to the courageous Zulu regiments who attacked ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Central to Marlene Dumas’s oeuvre is the depiction of human flesh in all its manifestations. By playing on the word “flesh” I will look at how she depicts children and nude adults in her work and to what extent the ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Gottfried Semper’s contribution to modern (and contemporary) architecture has been inadequately explored. This is unfortunate, because Semper’s ideas on materiality and ‘artistic appearance’ (Semper 1989: 190) provide – ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)This article presents a reading of South African artist Willem Boshoff’s installation Writing that fell off the wall (1997) to illustrate how he used his material to expose colonialism and apartheid as inhuman ideologies. ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)This article presents a selection of photographs as evidence of community engagement at the local level, in an area near Cape Town which is heavily stigmatised. Press posters, public signage and linguistically visible ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)It is the contention of this research to explain the perceptual totality of composed groups of Classical Greek buildings in sacred precincts, as exemplified at Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis. The main proposal to be ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Materiality to the Milesians was the ultimate state of being. To be was to be material and matter was the complete key to the nature of things. The Pythagoreans however, thought that mathematics and formulas could be ...
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Transvaal Romantic : an exploration of Romantic elements in the landscape paintings of Moses Tladi (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Little comprehensive literature is available on Romantic expressions by black artists in South Africa. The work of Moses Tladi, a recently re-discovered Pedi artist, offers a unique perspective on the iconic landscape ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Water is a material which pervades the earth and is the source of all life, the fons et origo (Cirlot 1971: 365). Humans are seventy percent water and it occupies seventy percent of the earth’s surface. As a substance ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)In spite of an emerging African Renaissance, there is still no associated urgency in defining architecture with an African identity. This article explores the claim, made by the African American architect, Melvin Mitchell, ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)It is the purpose of this article to explain how the stair as an architectural element not merely serves the function of vertical movement in a manner requiring physical safety, but has often, especially in monumental ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)This research involves an investigation into narrative portrait photography as an engagement with South African collector culture. Increasingly, contemporary photography projects concentrating on the documenting of the ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)When creating artefacts that belong in the material world artists choose specific raw materials for particular reasons, including that selected resources are accessible and well suited to fitness for purpose and expression ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Indigenous ethic groups and White settlers in South Africa historically established their various identities by means of their settlement patterns and architecture, in an indigenous, or compromised European way. During ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Graphic design often influences and reflects the subcultures of society. This was evident in graphic design associated with popular music during the 1960s and 1970s which captured the spirit of its time. The album covers ...
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