Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 28 (2013) by Subject "Art"

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 28 (2013) by Subject "Art"

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  • Art and the dream of self-transcendence 
    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 ...
  • The paradoxes of art 
    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. ...