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The Mbole and their lilwa Sculptures (Central Zaire):A Case Study of Traditional Tribal Art seen in its Context

Van Haute, Bernadette (Unisa, 1984-04)
Imitation and collaboration in seventeenth-century flemish genre painting : deconstructing "originality"

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 ...
David I Ryckaert: A late sixteenth-century stoffeerder. Presented at the Medieval-Renaissance Conference XV. The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, 20 – 22 September 2001.

Van Haute, Bernadette (2001-09-20)

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 ...
Cross-cultural representation and influences in ballets by Darius Milhaud and Paul Hindemith

Geldenhuys, Daniel G. (Unisa Press, 2002)

In this article I will be dealing with the ballet output of two composers, the Frenchman, Darius Milhaud, and the German, Paul Hindemith, concentrating on one representative work of each, namely La CreÂation du Monde ...
The Congress of the Catalonia Musicological Society, Solsona,1997: developments in the teaching of musicology in northeastern Spain

Geldenhuys, Daniel G. (Unisa Press, 2002)

In this article I shall deal mainly with a congress of the Societat Catalana de Musicologia held at the Santuari d'El Miracle from 8 to 10 October 1997, highlighting the importance of an event like this for the future ...
Seventeenth-century Flemish paintings in South African collections: a colonial heritage

Van Haute, Bernadette (Unisa Press, 2002)
Critical language and visual art:a post-structural analysis

Potgieter, Frikkie (de arte, 2003-04)

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 ...
Christo Coetzee: Paintings from London and Paris 1954-1964

Basson, E.L. (Unisa Press, 2003-04)
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 ...
Pottering around in Africa: Erich Mayer's search for an indigenous South African style as exemplified in his ceramic designs

Basson, E.L. (Unisa Press, 2006)

This article investigates the ideas, ideals and contribution of the German-Jewish artist Erich Mayer, who was born in Germany in 1876. He settled in South Africa in 1898, where he developed an affinity with the early ...
A post-humanist deconstruction of the modern continental aesthetic tradition

Potgieter, Frikkie (Unisa, 2006)

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 ...
Kentridge, Mozart, Namibia... Black Box / Chambre Noir in Berlin Guggenheim

Geldenhuys, Daniel G. (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2006)

The article deals with Black Box/Chambre Noir by William Kentridge, an art creation consisting of a miniature mechanized theatre, which had as commissioned work been exhibited at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. The ...
John Joubert as a Personification of Two Worlds

Geldenhuys, Daniel G. (Unisa Press, 2007)
Detotalising or meaninglessness: on the continued relevance of

Potgieter, Frikkie (SAJAH, 2008)

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 ...
African tourist art as tradition and product of the postcolonial exotic

Van Haute, Bernadette (Taylor & Francis, 2008)

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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Die moderne strewe na artistieke outonomie: 'n Waardering vir 'n gefaalde projek

Potgieter, Frikkie (LitNet Akademies, 2010-03)

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 ...

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