Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 29 (2014) by Issue Date

Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 29 (2014) by Issue Date

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  • Die deelnemingsparadigma as ’n addisionele paradigma in multi-praktisyns en praktykgeleide navorsingsprojekte 
    Marley, Ian; Swanepoel, Rita; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article explores the possibility that the participatory paradigm might be an appropriate research paradigm for creative practitioners to produce practice-led research. In the context of multi-practitioner arts-related ...
  • The role of the second architect on a significant building site 
    Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article expounds Edmond Bacon’s “principle of the second man”, formulated in his Design of Cities (1967), as a criterion for judging the addition of another building or additional architectural structures a on a ...
  • Van Brandenburg unfurled: architecture in the expanded field of contemporary practice 
    Schmidt, Leoni; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article considers a current project undertaken by Architecture Van Brandenburg in Shenzhen, China. Locating, touching, mimicking, integrating, crafting, unfurling and exhibiting are subheadings used to discuss salient ...
  • Expressing liminality through a reflective practice account of Dismotief 
    Strydom, Richardt; Goosen, Moya; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Dismotief (dis-motif) is an interdisciplinary production that explores masculinity, identity and language. The collaborative exhibition, held in the Potchefstroom City Hall in 2012, encompassed poetry, visual art and ...
  • A rhetorical interpretation of a geometric diagram of Plato’s “Creation Myth” overlaid on the Parthenon’s main facade 
    Mare, Estelle Alma; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    A visual rhetorical interpretation of the design and symbolism of the pedimented main facade of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is based on a schematic geometric diagram of Plato’s “Creation Myth”, as described ...
  • On the question of architecture and identity, in post-apartheid South Africa 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Considerations as to personal and group identity seem to be everywhere these days, in the national news, in the latest pop/rap video and with respect to the very clothes that we choose to wear. Significantly, in ...
  • West African influence on various projects by Le Corbusier 
    Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article contributes to the renewed interest in Le Corbusier by exploring a proposition by the African American architect and scholar, Melvin Mitchell, that West African art and architecture had a decisive influence ...
  • City Walls to city streets : utopias of dissent 
    Kruger, Runette; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Lewis Mumford makes the case that the first (western) utopia was a City, and that the first (western) City was a utopia, and David Harvey similarly iterates that “[t]he figures of ‘the city’ and of ‘Utopia’ have long ...
  • Zen and the art of artmaking : Goldsworthy and Kapoor 
    Bhana, Poorvi; Stevens, Ingrid; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article focuses on the work of two contemporary artists and the ways in which their work can be shown to relate to Zen Buddhist philosophies and aesthetics. It aims to examine the interpretation of Western art by ...
  • Being and becoming in the Late Anthropocene 
    Green, David; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Colonisation as an ongoing process continues to obfuscate the real identity of a culture “becoming” in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In writing about aspects of my arts practice I touch upon certain Hericlitean, Platonic, and ...
  • The devil and his works : the owl in Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) 
    Zuiddam, Benno; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
  • Character and characterisation in the visual arts : nunology’s punning characters 
    Rathbone, Louisemarié; Lotz, Colette; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article presents an interpretation of the nun-like figures in Ian Marley and Wessie van der Westhuizen’s artist’s book Nunology. The nun-like figures, all with names that suggest puns of some sort, comprise the cast ...
  • Reflective Conversations : baudrillard’s orders of the simulacrum 
    Goosen, Moya; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    The French poststructuralist Baudrillard’s (1981; 1983; 1976 and 1994) conceptualisation of the simulacrum entails the philosophical-theoretical exploration of the deconstruction and simultaneous realisation of the real. ...
  • Visualising the merging of culture from an ‘other’ perspective 
    Keogh, Sarah; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper reflects on the challenges of cultural identity in an increasingly globalised society. As the individual questions their identity within a surge of globalisation, and with it a dominant Western viewpoint, so ...
  • Ruin cities : sources of nostalgia, consolation, revenge, tectonic landscape and inspiration 
    Jordaan, June; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Ruin cities haunt our imagination and arouse our curiosity for a number of reasons. Those features in them that interest an artist are the characteristic of timelessness that they accrue over the years. Furthermore, they ...
  • Interpreting images from South African family photographic collections of the Anglo-Boer War period 1899 to 1902 
    Du Toit, Flip; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Photography’s truth telling technology enticed early photographers to capture images of war such as the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Many of these images include family photographic collections that were taken in and around ...
  • Identity in architecture and art : Versailles, Giverny and Gyeongju 
    Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper explores the different “identities” projected by the palace and gardens of Versailles, the house and garden of Claude Monet in Giverny (France), and Mount Namsan in (South) Korea. It is argued that the palace ...
  • “Hollow” : reflections on practice, the artefact and the body 
    Du Preez, Linda; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This article uses a rhizomatic approach to explore how the artist acquired experiential knowledge and insight through the experience and practice of making the expressive artefact “Hollow” (2011). Sullivan argues, “the ...
  • Walking in the city as (model for) “dissensus” 
    Olivier, Bert; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    This paper explores the variegated spatial meanings of “the city” by way of Michel de Certeau’s reflections on “walking in the city” as part of “the practice of everyday life”, which he conceives of as allowing people ...
  • The representation of women as a competitive self-objectified image : a new design identity of misleading slimming advertising 
    De Lange, Rudi W; Mare, Estelle Alma (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
    Misleading slimming advertisements are a prominent visual feature in South African magazines that target young women. These commercial messages are particularly pervasive in magazines that focus on health, fitness, and ...