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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 ...
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 ...
The collection of art by South African universities was inherent to colonial practice and central to this was a Eurocentric, colonial logic of classification and justification. As a decolonial project, I argue for the ...
In this article I examine the production of
tronies or head studies of people of African
origin made by the Flemish artists Peter Paul
Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jan I Brueghel,
Jacob Jordaens and Gaspar de Crayer in ...
Bruce Cassidy’s Body Electric appeared briefly in the 1990s in Johannesburg to
perform a number of concerts there, including two concerts at the University of
the Witwatersrand. Led by the Canadian-born Cassidy and formed ...
The author discusses the musical staging of Italian double bass player and composer Roberto Bonati of his extended composition of "The Blanket of the Dark: A Study for Lady Macbeth" at the International Spring Music Festival ...
Until today, David I Ryckaert (Antwerp, 15602 - 1607, Antwerp) has been considered the
patriarch of three generations of painters living and working in Antwerp. Except for Manteuffel3,
most authors4 agree that he was the ...
Van Haute, Bernadette(Brill Online Books and Journals, 2008)
Willem Bartsius (c.1612 – in or after 1639) is a seventeenth-century Dutch painter
whose artistic output has puzzled art historians. Only six signed works have survived
and on the basis of stylistic analogy, another ten ...
The aim of this paper is to investigate the possibilities offered by Post-Africanism – a
new perspective coined by Denis Ekpo and proposed as an alternative to
postcolonialism. He defines Post-Africanism as an attempt ...
This article investigates the representation of "dulle Griet" by the seventeenth-century artists David II Teniers and David III Ryckaert in the context of Catholic Flanders. In a society preoccupied with hierarchical order ...
An overview of current television
advertisements suggests that the pre- and
post-1994 endeavour to engage directly and
explicitly with the differences that constitute
this rainbow nation seem to be declining. I
find ...
Van Haute, Bernadette(SAAAH Conference, 1997-09-11)
To Postmodern thinking, the Modernist concept of originality in an artist's work is employed freely and
often far too loosely as a criterion of aesthetic excellence. A presumed lack of originality in the work of
sevent ...
Recent academic writing emphasises the importance of the body in human meaning
and understanding but, surprisingly, a high percentage of researchers turn a blind
eye to the fact that the Western philosophical aesthetic ...
The modern Continental aesthetic and artistic
tradition is often placed in the humanist camp
and implicated in the construction of totalising
subject formations. In this article I emphasize
the other side of the coin ...
This article argues that the modern quest for artistic autonomy contributed to emancipation in general, essentially by undermining the violence that results from correspondence thinking.1 It starts out by noting that a ...