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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 ...
This was a practice-led study, in which I critically engaged with my own video artwork alongside the video works of three other artists. Selected works of Penny Siopis, Anders Weberg, Maja Zack and mine deal with the notions ...
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 ...
The study delves into traumatic memories rooted in the unconscious mind and the modalities of expression of traumatic memories of childhood. Specific reference is made to the trauma studies of Cathy Caruth and Bessel van ...
Digital image editing is rooted in the analog practices of photographic retouching from the late nineteenth century. This study interrogated how novel contributions of new media practice can inform understanding of the ...
The broad focus of this study is on how, through inequalities in power in
constructed human socio-political, socio-economic and legal structures, the value and dignity of human life is destroyed. The researcher as artist ...
My study is a theoretical intervention of the South African contemporary visual art of Mary Sibande. It focuses on the figure of Sophie representing the maid in three series; namely, Sophie-Elsie, Sophie-Merica, and ...
This study investigated the management of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at academic libraries in selected public universities in Ghana. The purpose for this study was to
investigate the managerial ...