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  • Reinstating the body in Western philosophical and artistic practices 
    Potgieter, Frikkie (Sun Media, 2004)
    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 ...
  • Relocating the Centre: Decolonising the University Art Collections in South Africa 
    Mkhonza, Bongani (ONCURATING.org, 2021-04)
    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 ...
  • Rubber ducks and Ships of Fools 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Routledge, 2017-05-12)
    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 ...
  • Ryckaert at work: A Flemish painter’s view of labour 
    Van Haute, Bernadette (Unisa Press, 2008)
    In his depictions of men at work, David III Ryckaert reveals an acute awareness of social differentiation on the basis of professional identity. The craftsman is invariably depicted as an example of industry and diligence, ...
  • Seventeenth-century Flemish paintings in South African collections: a colonial heritage 
    Van Haute, Bernadette (Unisa Press, 2002)
  • Singing the body electric: Real-time and virtual performance 
    Duby, Marc (IASPM, 2013-01-01)
    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 ...
  • Staging Roberto Bonati's The blanket of the dark: A twenty-first century vision of 'The Scottish play'. 
    Duby, Marc (Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 2010)
    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 ...
  • Theorising sameness and difference in South African television advertisements 
    Potgieter, Frikkie (Unisa, 2008)
    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 ...
  • Titus Matiyane, kartograaf en transnasionale flâneur 
    Dreyer, Elfriede (Litnet, 2017-02)
    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 ...
  • uMuthimkhulu We Mpilo 
    Mosako, Daniel Rankadi; Mosako, Daniel Rankadi; Mosako, Daniel Rankadi (UNISA FLORIDA CAMPUS, 2023-11-30)
    The Phylogenetic Tree of Life sculpture titled uMthimkhulu We Mpilo is a dynamic public art that explores the evolution of life and the interconnectedness of life organisms. This artwork is a visual representation of the ...
  • Willem Bartsius and the art of Dutch history painting 
    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 ...
  • Women’s Day Celebration: Celebrating Black South African Female Jazz Composers 
    Mkizwana, Viwe Siyabonga; Mthembu, Mzamo; Mcwabe, Ntsikelelo; Sepuru, Phuti; Motsepe, Nthabiseng; Mcwabe, Ntsikelelo (2023)
    Women’s Day (9 August) a reminder of the tenacity, resilience, and power of South African women. This performance is part of the University of Pretoria’s weekly Lunch Hour Concerts, where leading musicians (local and ...

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