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Browsing Research Articles (Visual Arts) by Type "Postprint Article"
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(Routledge, 2019)Drawing on social constructivism, and Stuart Hall’s representation theories, the purpose of this article is to examine themes of black femininity presented on the cover lines on the 12 front covers of South African True ...
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(Routledge, 2018)South Africa in 2018 finds itself at yet another crossroads with a changing of the presidential guard set against a backdrop of protests, state capture and a growing disenchantment afforded by the euphoria and promise of ...
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(Routledge, 2018)In the mid-1990s, Jacques Derrida’s book Archive Fever (1995) sparked a lively theoretical debate that focused on practices of reading the archive, the relationship of the archive to power, and the gaps within the archive. ...
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(Routledge, 2015-12)In this article, I argue that casebook photographs of the mentally ill can potentially move beyond a record of a clinical case, to bring into view an understanding of patients as individual subjects. My argument is based ...
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(Routledge, 2020)This paper explores the dialectical-rhetorical constitution of stylistic design trends by analyzing a prominent shift in interface design esthetics, from “skeuomorphism” to “Flat Design”. The case study serves to illustrate ...
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(Routledge, 2013)This essay investigates the role of space and personal action in the construction of patient–psychiatrist relations at psychiatric hospitals. In order to explore such a theme, the writings of R.D. Laing prove to be salutary. ...
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(Routledge, 2023)This paper interrogates the visual images and texts Nigerians posted on social media – Facebook as a counter-narrative to President Buhari’s narrative that ‘we have a very young population, a lot of them have not been to ...
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(Sage, 2014-04)This article, which is argumentative in nature, interrogates and critiques Peter Rollins’s hermeneutic of the crucifixion. This is done by calling into question Rollins’s reliance upon the writings of Slovenian dialectical ...
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(Wiley, 2020-08)This article introduces playful learning as part of the decolonising project at institutes of higher learning in South Africa with specific reference to the discipline of communication design. Not only does the article ...
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(Routledge, 2021)In this article I compare the research methods of two visually trained artists: Elizabeth Goodall and Walter Battiss. Both were working at the beginning of the twentieth century in the emerging field of rock art studies ...
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(Sage, 2024)Digital memory in the twenty-first century is a complex combination of human and nonhuman elements that interact in various combinations. In an era where environmental devastation is inundating the planet, it is vital to ...
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Heimat in the veld? German Afrikaners of missionary descent and their imaginings of women and home (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2015-04)the depiction of Germans abroad by Stefan Manz as “extremely heterogeneous groups or individuals” is as applicable to South Africa as anywhere else. So is the apparent contradiction of self-proclaimed ‘Germanness’ ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2024-06)The demand for children’s reading materials that are representative of the diverse population of South Africa and that address language and affordability issues has given rise to several book creation initiatives by local ...
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(Routledge, 2012)Flânerie as an activity of strolling and looking carried out by the flâneur is a persistent motif in literature, sociology and art concerned with urban and specifically metropolitan culture. During the 19th century the ...
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(Routledge, 2023)This paper interrogates the identities in the representations of women adorned in African cultural dress forms in contemporary Nigerian paintings. While many studies have explored the subject of African dress forms from ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-09)The artworks produced at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal, have been highly appraised and appreciated in South African art-historical circles, not in the least so as ...
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(Routledge, 2006-09)This article examines the infamous Land Rover 'Himba' advertisement (2000) that shocked South Africans because of its racism and sexism. The South African Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the advertisement ...
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(Routledge, 2021)Over the past decade, powerful mothers in cinema have reappeared in the fantasy genre in the form of “witches”. Some witches’ stories, such as that of Maleficent (the wicked witch from the classic fairy tale Sleeping ...
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(Routledge, 2015-12)The Marikana massacre ruptured the South African sociopolitical horizon in August 2012. This analysis aims to expose or make visible the scopic regimes at work when interpreting the event. By referencing Judith Butler’s ...
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(2010-03)By exploring selected, recent works produced by amongst others Zanele Muholi, Nandipha Mntambo, Tracey Rose and Leora Farber it is the aim of this essay to trace a possible resurgence of the real through the depiction ...
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