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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 28 (2013) by Subject "Architecture -- History"
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Van der Vyver, Yolanda; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Hurst, Andrea; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
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Gaule, Sally; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
We read on the surfaces of buildings the accretions of time. The photographic portrayal of ruins
offers a way to reflect on the ravages of time, and show the imprint of time. Once buildings lose their
original purpose ...
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Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Steele, John; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Stupples, Peter; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Swanepoel, M.C. (Rita); Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Crous, Marius
(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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Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
This study explores the various factors that impacted on the materiality of the ntlo, the house of a
married Tswana woman and her children, from the earliest recorded examples in the early nineteenth
century, to the ...
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Konik, Adrian; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
The focus of this article falls on the extent to which the digital time-images – or silicon-crystals – of
Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) function as a form of counterinformation within contemporary
control society, ...
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Hattingh, Heidi Saayman; Minkley, Hannah; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
Art’s paradoxical character lends itself to being elaborated upon by identifying several paradoxes at
the heart of it. This goes for all of the arts – architecture, painting, sculpture, dance, music, literature
and cinema. ...
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Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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Konik, Adrian; Konik, Inge; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
With reference to Grant McCracken’s seminal work on the eclipse of patina through consumerism,
this article investigates the compensatory dynamics of contemporary consumption practices centred
on novel items rather than ...
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Stevens, Ingrid; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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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De Lange, Rudi W; Mare, Estelle Alma
(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 ...