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  • Architecture's 'other' : an ontological reading of the abject relationship with interior design 
    Konigk, Raymund; Bakker, Karel Anthonie (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2012)
    Dialectic relationships exist between architecture and emergent architecturally informed disciplines. Interior design constitutes such a discipline and is considered a critical case study. The main problem is to investigate ...
  • Architecture, historicism and historiography 
    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 ...
  • Architecture, hybridities and post-apartheid design 
    Noble, J.A. (Jonathan) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2008)
    This chapter develops a methodological discussion on questions of hybridity in architectural theory and design, in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Reference is made to differing ideas of hybridity; from early ...
  • Are illegal squatters ruralising the urban edge? 
    Steyn, Gerald (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    This article was motivated by a claim in literature that migrants are ruralising Third World cities. It investigates the impacts of migration - the fact that all residents are from somewhere else - on the form and function ...
  • Area reserved for the accomodation of Asiatics : Marabstad 
    (1940)
  • Area reserved for the accomodation of Asiatics,2 : Marabastad 
    (1945)
  • Argitek Moerdijk by modelle van sy kerke 
    Unknown (Volkstem, 1929-06-15)
    Suid Afrikaanse boukuns en die Afrikaanse argitek Gerard Moerdijk.
  • Armoire 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Studio Wesselo; Hausmann, Cape Town (2008-11-10)
    Two photographs depicting an armoire with bombé-fronted drawers. It has a gabled pediment with exuberantly carved key block, a shaped apron & shaped panels on the drawers. One photograph shows the armoire in pristine ...
  • Armoire at Alphen near Wynberg 
    Bryer, Montague Leo (1912-1987); Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968) (2008-10-17)
    Measured preparatory drawing No. 5F of the side elevation and two key escutcheons of the armoire at Alphen, done by Monte Bryer. The final drawings, measured by John Fassler and drawn by Geoffrey Pearse, were published as ...
  • Armoire, Alphen 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968) (2008-10-23)
    Photograph depicting an armoire from Alphen. It has a frame with canted corners. The elaborate gabled pediment has a carved key block and ornaments. The bottom part with bombé drawers has a carved apron. See also pages 130 ...
  • Armoire, Koopmans De Wet House 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Bryer, Montague Leo (1912-1987); Schmidt, Daniel Heinrich; Elliot, Arthur, 1870-1938 (2008-10-17)
    Photograph depicting an amoire at Koopmans De Wet House. It has several carved ornaments on the cornice, doors, legs and base rail. It is the same piece shown in Fig. 170 on p. 142, and in Plate 45 on p. 143 (measured by ...
  • Armoire, Meerlust 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Edrich, Stellenbosch (2008-11-03)
    Photograph depicting an armoire at Meerlust. The bottom part has canted corners and three bombé drawers (shaped in section). The moulded feet are linked by a shaped apron. The cornice is broken around the meeting stiles ...
  • Armoire, mrs. van Heerden 
    Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Coyne, Geoff (2008-10-31)
    Photograph depicting a cupboard belonging to Mrs. Carl van Heerden. It has three linenfold drawers, splayed corners, and a key block with sprays of leaves on both sides. The fielded door panels are shaped. It is the same ...
  • Arms shield and unicorn head 
    Cleland, John S. (2009-05-15)
    Corrections made on the drawing of an arms shield and unicorn head by Burke's peerage.
  • Army tents at Spitzkop 
    Fassler, John (1910-1971) (1944)
  • Aronofsky's subversion of mainstream cinema through the neo noir "Pi" (1998) 
    Konik, Adrian (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2003)
    This article investigates how Aronofsky's Pi (1998) subverts the visual language of mainstream cinema and the mass media at both an overt level, through the use of alienating techniques that encourage the audience to ...
  • Art and sacral space 
    Stupples, Peter (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2009)
    ‘Art’ was originally associated with sacral spaces for the enactment of rites that bound a community into a culture. The objects created as ‘art’ were also imitated by secular authorities, enacting their ceremonial rituals ...
  • 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 ...
  • Art and the ethical today 
    Olivier, Bert (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    What is art’s function today, in the early 21st century? It is argued here that, while art’s function has changed dramatically throughout history, its formal features are usually regarded as being paramount in ascertaining ...
  • Art as material culture 
    Van den Berg, Dirk Johannes (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2001)
    With questions concerning the physical basis and the material substructure of works of art as topic, the article surveys a number of related problem areas. These include the objecthood of art, art products as physical ...