This dissertation focuses on utopian versus dystopian perceptions of rural indigenous African societies with regard to the modern metropolis. Since the evolution of the modern metropolis, rural African societies have ...

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 ...

This thesis is based on the belief that representations of women in contemporary Ugandan art serve cultural and political purposes. The premise is that the autonomous woman (seen as the new woman in this study), emerging ...

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 ...

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 ...

This study examines the Oba of Benin Royal Ugie ceremonies, which is an annual religious and cultural event celebrated by the Benin speaking people of Edo State, Nigeria. As a communal and spiritual activity, the Oba and ...

This is a monograph on the South African artist Diek Grobler. The aim is to contextualise the artist‟s oeuvre up to 2009 and to explore the visual metaphors in his art. Grobler has a fascination for stories. He blends ...

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 ...

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 ...