Browsing Department of Visual Arts by Title
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The abject, frail fourth age body: art jewellery as a tool to re-interpret aged female bodies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates art jewellery as social communicator and questions the way in which the Fourth Age female individual is perceived. The argument of this thesis will be presented in conjunction ... -
Africa-Lite: cultural appropriation and commodification of historic blackness in post-apartheid fabric and décor design
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the past few years, cultural appropriation has gained a degree of notoriety as a buzzword, after emerging into the wider public arena from academic, legal and political discourses. Internationally ... -
The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)This thesis aims to assess the extent to which the African curated exhibition, Dak’Art: Biennale de l’art africain contemporain , succeeds in subverting hegemonic Western representations of African art as necessarily ... -
After birth : abjection and maternal subjectivity in Svea Josephy's "Confinement"
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I investigate the radical reframing of maternal representation in the photographic series by Cape Town-based artist Svea Josephy (b. 1969), entitled Confinement 2005-ongoing. Using Julia ... -
Alternative to what? : the rise of Loslyf magazine
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study I analyse the first year of publication of Loslyf, the first and, at the time of its launch in June 1995, only Afrikaans pornographic magazine. The analysis comprises a historical account ... -
Animated storytelling as collaborative practice : an exploratory study in the studio, the classroom and the community
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates stop motion animation as a form of socially engaged visual storytelling. It aims to expand commonly held perceptions that associate animation with the mass media and entertainment ... -
Antonin Artaud en Georg Baselitz : 'n psigo-analitiese perspektief as konteks vir my eie skilderwerk
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1991-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY: In this thesis I shall create a context for my own painting by discussing the works of A. Artaud and G. Baselitz. As a general introduction to A. Artaud, the first chapter shall entail a discussion of ... -
Art and book : a commentary on artists' books
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis investigates the contemporary practice of book art, examining in particular the manner in which it fits both into the tradition of the book and the tradition of art making. The thesis spans ... -
Art and conversion : an investigation of ritual, memory and healing in the process of making art
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)This thesis investigates the concept of conversion which arose out of the process of making soap as medium for my body of sculptural works and signifying its material transformation with ‘cleaning’ and ‘conversion’ – ... -
Beeld se gedagtes : 'n alternatiewe benadering tot die voorstellingsfunksie van die fotobeeld
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is bemoei met die wyse waarop die fotobeeld konvensioneel aan 'n mimetiese kode van "gedrag" onderhewig is, met die gevolg dat alternatiewe voorstellingsfunksies dikwels buite oorweging ... -
Betekenis in narratiewe illustrasie : ’n dissonante samewerking tussen woord en beeld
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)This thesis is concerned with the way in which word and image can be utilized to question conventions about meaning-making. I am of the opinion that an interesting area of research is exposed when word and image are ... -
Between colour lines : interrogating the category ‘coloured’ in depictions of District Six in the work of five South African artists
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Group Areas Act of 1950 radically affected coloured artists of the time, since it resulted in forced removals and the demolition of traditionally ‘coloured’ suburbs, and forced coloured people into ... -
Bibliotuiste as veronderstelde tussentuiste
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: House, home, to be at-home-in-the-world and the need for a mobile home that accompanies us through our everyday life, are concepts upon which this thesis is built. I am of opinion that the constant mobility ... -
The biopolitics of Gugulective against neoliberal capitalism
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In critical and museological practices, a focus on diaspora has not only limited the scope of African art but also neglected a whole discursive field and practical corpus that challenges neoliberal ... -
Bitterkomix en Stripshow : pornografie en satire in Afrikaanse ondergrondse strippe
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)This thesis aims to investigate the representation of gender in Afrikaans underground comics. Initially the work of Conrad Botes and Anton Kannemeyer in Bitterkomix, dating from 1992 to 2004, will be discussed, followed ... -
The book and the rhizome : the implications of and alternatives to linear logic, with special reference to artist books
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis entails an explorative and argumentative study that is concerned with the importance and relevance of artist books, as substantiated by art-historical research into the way in which people ... -
Breaking porcelain : a journey in the curatorship of inherited Meissen shards
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Breaking Porcelain is a personal journey in the curatorship of inherited porcelain shards. A Meissen porcelain collection, once belonging to my great, great grandparents – German Jewish collectors in Dresden ... -
Die Breytie boek : 'n versameling artikels oor Suid-Afrikaanse teater opgedra aan P.P.D. Breytenbach (24th January 1904 - 2nd March 1984)
(Limelight press, 1985)To serve as background for the articles I have included a general chronology on the history of South African theatre (1887-1984) identifying some of the highlights of the period. The book consists of three main sections: ... -
A case of emergence : autonomy and self-organisation in conceptual art practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis entails a practice-led theoretical discussion on generative art production within an ecological framework. It is based on my work in Eyemvelo Kosbos (2010- ), an interdisciplinary collaborative ...
