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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Figurative art made in Central and West Africa for the global market is a form
of tourist art – a category that has been plagued in art historical research by
misconstrued concepts such as the authenticity of ...
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 ...
This article analyses how the poststructuralist deconstruction of fixed knowledge and universal experiences,
presents itself in two opposing ethical positions in postmodernist art and culture. On the one
hand the ...
This article is concerned with the theoretical
understanding of the limitations and potential
of the broader discursive criticism of visual
works of art. Furthermore, as indicated in the
title, I will be looking at ...
The current worldwide management mania, which also manifests at South African
universities, is insensitive towards the creation of a space where the “desire for
the unknown” can be pursued. In this article I argue that ...