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Many artists from rural areas in the global south are driven by the functionality of the art object and of naturalism in communicating the urgency of redressing sociopolitical conditions. This article does not advocate a ...
In William Kentridge’s The refusal of time (2012), comment on time as both a scientific and a human entity is produced. A complex mix of the visual and nominal vocabularies of early ‘rudimentary’ technological invention, ...
The trope of boat figures centrally in Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's travelling public artwork, Rubber duck (2007–2016); in the media images of migrant refugees arriving at European destinations by boat since 2015; and ...
Die stedelike panoramas van die Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Titus Matiyane (geb. 1964) − ’n eietydse buitestanderkunstenaar − is ’n waardevolle bron vir die bestudering van die begrippe geokartering en flânerie in eietydse ...
This presentation introduces a series of modules on Western Art Music in History and Society offered at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Aimed at Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts students, the modules provide ...
The approach of this research was conducted via an Anthropogenic Anthropological voice focusing on the life, death, life cycles of nature and culture within the Urban Anthropocene and the impact this have on non-human kin. ...
This practice-based study sets out to identify creative triggers found in
contemporary children’s picture books that encourage playful approaches in
readers with a view to them applying their imaginations as they navigate ...
In the global art market, art fairs have become very popular art events. This thesis examines whether and how major art fairs in South Africa empower visual artists at the grassroots level. The study used practice-based ...
This dissertation sets out to find the ways in which contemporary performance artists problematise and resist the iconoclasms found in modernist landscape paintings.
The landscape paintings of Maggie Laubser, J.H. Pierneef ...
This study investigated the performance management system practices in Ghanaian university
libraries to develop a framework for implementing an integrated performance management system
for university libraries. The study ...
The recent trend in removing statues of controversial figures from history prompts a need to consider a revisionist approach to studying publicly sited artworks, particularly when the social dynamic engages public art in ...
As a professional bass player and teacher I have experienced various instances of musicians interacting with one another in a group setting. These interactions varied from school ensembles,
music students at a tertiary ...
Although this paper focuses largely on the Anthropocene, it is not about the local or global
dangers of climate changes and escalation of pollution. It is about the diverse responses of
selected artists and humanists ...
In this research, both discursive and in practice, I give account of my Judaic family dispersal, which requires a particular interaction and interrelationship between the past and the present. This interrelationship forms ...
Just as a door handle invites a user to either push it or pull it, certain aspects of guitar chords invite the player to move from one chord more easily to one or another chord. This user-friendly aspect of certain guitar ...
The intention of this investigation was to examine how images of feminine beauty were constructed in the Facebook advertising of retailers Mr Price and H&M. The study examined whether western and European ideals of feminine ...
This history of music and Presbyterianism at the Lovedale Missionary Institute focuses on the work of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries, students and graduates of Lovedale in the period 1841 to 1955. The period under ...
The core of this research study is concerned with the importance of a strategically aligned acquisitions policy for a corporate art collection in order for it to remain relevant to and increase its value for the company ...
This doctoral study investigates the practice of narrative strategies in the creation of animated poetry-film. The status of the animator as auteur of the poetry-film is established on the grounds of the multiple instances ...
This project deals with the concepts of care, contentedness and self-reflection in light of the ecological plights that face our planet and the way that my artistic practice reflects this. It achieves this by focusing on ...