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

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

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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 ...