Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Visual Arts) by Title
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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 ...
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The edible museum : exploring foodways as sociomuseological practice in Kayamandi, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Food is one of the most fundamental aspects related to human well-being. The ways in which food moves through community social systems, through foodways, are implicated in complex networks of privilege ...
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An elusive archive : three trans men and photographic recollection
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The archive as mnemonic device and taxonomic structure plays a significant role in the visualisation of identity. This thesis draws on the example of the personal photographic archives of three trans ...
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An exploration of the potential of wordless picturebooks to encourage parent-child reading in the South African context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research study focused on the influence of a participatory project in which wordless picturebooks were used in parent-child joint reading and, more generally, the development of a culture of reading ...
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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 ...
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Seeing ghosts : the past in contemporary images of Afrikaner self-representation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Contemporary Afrikaner ethnic identity is subject to attempts at rehabilitation, which seek to fit Afrikaner whiteness to the post-apartheid milieu. This thesis investigates how popular visual culture, ...
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Thinking with animals : an exploration of the animal turn through art making and metaphor
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: No abstract available
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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 ...