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South African botanical art : a study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century imagery
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Botanical art consists of a complex combination of scientific fact and aesthetic awareness, and is
concerned with more than the realistic representation of a plant and its flowers. It goes beyond
the ...
Coloured in - investigating the challenges of an 'othered' identity within spaces of learning
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The challenges that have occurred within the South African education context could be ascribed to the country’s political history. This is a history that includes more than three hundred and fifty years ...
Imaginative acts of photographic of self-representation as a critical response to representations of the black male body in South African photography
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The first part of this thesis discusses some of the problematic photographic practices that
form part of the modern visual discourse employed in defining the representation of the black
man in South ...
‘Swartsmeer’ : ’n studie oor die stereotipering van Afrika en Afrikane in die populere media
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008-03)
This thesis consists of a study that identifies and analyses the origins, nature, and spectrum of
different stereotypes of Africans in popular texts.
The past can only be explored through texts, which are unavoidably ...
The mark of a silent language : the way the body-mind draws
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis deals with the notion that individuation in drawing provides visible evidence of
experiential cognition as embodied action. It asserts that trait as enaction signifies
constructive and inventive ...
Writing white on black : modernism as discursive paradigm in South African writing on modern Black art
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)
In this thesis I deconstruct key concepts, terminologies, and rhetorical conventions employed in white South
African writing on modern black art. I trace the genealogy of the dominant discursive practices of the
apartheid ...
Explorations of the painted real : technological mediation in the work of four artists
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is an investigation into the relationship between photorealistic painting and specific
devices used to aid the artist in mediating the real. The term 'reality' is negotiated and a hybrid
theoretical ...
Transmuting the mundane into transcendence : migrations of myth and its connection to contemporary comic books
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the human capacity of modifying established myth in the light of
new circumstances. It focuses on the changing status of myth and mythical cosmologies in
Western culture as ...
Growing letters
(2011-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Young learners with reading and writing difficulties cannot reach their full potential in
school. Teachers, parents and illustrators of children’s books cannot assume the efficacy
of illustrations as ...
Mastering myths and wandering wallflowers : botanical illustrations, gardens and the "mastery of nature"
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)
This thesis investigates the historical roots of botanical illustration. It argues that far from being simply
scientific representations of plants and flowers, empty of artistic comment and only accompaniments to
a ...