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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 29 (2014) by Type "Article"
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Noble, J.A. (Jonathan); Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
This paper considers the legacy of historicism and debates within modern/post-modern historiography
– especially in the work of Keith Jenkins, Michael Podro and Hayden White – and discusses how
these crucial perspectives ...
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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 ...
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Naude, Mauritz; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
Industrial buildings and structures are not usually associated with the discipline of architecture but
rather with civil engineering. However, industrial structures form an important part of the manmade
landscape of the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Strydom, Richardt; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
At the time of their making, colonial paintings were considered objective accounts of actual places and
situations. Contemporary redress of colonial depictions contends however that such representations
were culturally ...
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Zuiddam, Benno; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Steyn, Gerald; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
Architects are adamant that academic qualifications are a prerequisite for design competence. It
is therefore ironic that vernacular architecture is having a significant impact on contemporary
architectural design ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Goodrich, Andre; Strydom, Richardt; Mare, Estelle Alma
(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2014)
Ingold has used Marx’s distinction between exchange value and use value to distinguish between land
and landscape. Land, Ingold suggests, is abstracted, quantitative and interchangeable. Landscape, by
contrast, is ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...