Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 29 (2014) by Subject "Architecture -- History"
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Browsing South African Journal of Art History Volume 29 (2014) by Subject "Architecture -- History"
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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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 ...
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