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Browsing Research Articles (Visual Arts) by Type "Article"
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2011)Information visualisation is an increasingly prominent practice focussed on making large amounts of data more accessible through visual media. Furthermore, an increased interest in the aesthetic value of visualisations is ...
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(MIT Press, 2023-06-01)Sinethemba Ngubane is an artist who works predominantly in the medium of ceramics but includes sculptures in large installations. She was born in 1991 in Durban, South Africa, and completed a national diploma in Fine Art ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2021)In this article I engage South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga’s artistic practice to flesh out the complexities that arise from the intersection of the terms Black and queer. Drawing on diverse historical, social and ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2006)This article contextualises the typographic project, chronicles the type design process and offers some observations and comments on the design outcome. To this end it briefly considers the thinking underpinning the ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2002)This essay attempts to reconstruct the ten missing years in the life of the well-known South African sculptor, Anton van Wouw, from the end of the Anglo-Boer War to the end of 1910 when he received the commission to make ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2011)Traditionally considered to be the breeding ground of the monstrous, the limen is the non-place where hybrids congeal and mutate into extraordinary amalgamations. The latest cultural phenomenon of zef as embodied in ...
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(Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)To the uninitiated, it is quite probable that the results that art conservators derive from analytical techniques, may resemble alchemy, but they do not create gold from lead. Instead, they represent the composition of an ...
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(Unisa Press, 2005-04)In this article, the construct of the city is interpreted as a technological, artificial environment as well as a gendered construct. Within this context, depictions of the archetypal city dweller and the gaze in the urban ...
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(IGI Global, 2020)This article uses a philosophical hermeneutic perspective to present a reading of selected astronaut space selfies by drawing on ideas of Michel Serres, Paul Virilio, Hannah Arendt, Bonnie Mann, Joanna Zylinska, Nicholas ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2007)Contemporary South African printmaking boasts an uneasy relationship between classic printmaking and the attention-seeking gestures that have historically informed protest art, lending itself to performance culture. In ...
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(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2004)In 1873 Benjamin Disraeli could bemoan, "[a]n author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children." Today, however, authorship is a consumable that demands endless promoting ...
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(Unisa Press, 2013)This article offers a critical reading of a number of artworks by Avitha Sooful, mainly dating from the period 1980 to 2004. Readings of other relevant works that illustrate either continuities or disjunctures with ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap and Kuns, 2021-06)When COVID-19 rapidly spread across the globe in 2020, and people were either encouraged or forced to self-isolate and stay at home, for many, the only way to “keep in touch” with family, friends, peers and colleagues was ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2013)In this paper I explore certain existential elements found in the work of Austrian director Michael Haneke by coupling Haneke’s first three films, his Vergletscherungtrilogie (comprising Der Siebente Kontinent, ...
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(Routledge, 2025-01)Although space travel is not often discussed in relation to the environmental crisis, it is proposed here that how the core agent of space travel, namely the astronaut, is imagined is of cardinal importance to environmental ...
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(School of the Arts, University of Pretoria, 2024)This ar ticle locates the practice of creating autobiographical comics (autobiocomics) as products of autobiographical fiction (autofiction) and imaginary worlds. Autobiocomics is a comics genre characterised by imaginative ...
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(Unisa Press, 2012)A great deal of research in visual culture prioritises sight as the human faculty greatly in need of analysis in order to expose the ways in which seeing is constructed in and through culture. This article teases apart the ...
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(Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2017)Many rural craft initiatives in South Africa have as their core objective the alleviation of poverty. A popular assumption is that personal income or wealth is the primary solution to alter social deprivation. Economist ...
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(Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)Since pre-history, humankind has relied on archetypes and myths to describe the ineffable and has made use of fictional and mythological narratives to understand the meaning of life and death. Dying and death are topics ...
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(Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2011)This article considers the ontology of the British journalist GK Chesterton with respect to its implications for the interpretation of visual texts, referred to here as the ethics of speculation. This exploration takes ...
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