Masters Degrees (Visual Arts)
Recent Submissions
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'The horror without object' : a philosophical enquiry into photography, archives, and absence in Project Coast
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Following the 1997 arrest of Wouter Basson, South Africans watched in horror how the TRC began to unravel one of apartheid South Africa’s most sordid secrets: Project Coast, South Africa’s chemical and ...
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Cementing belief : tracing the history of Modernist Afrikaans church architecture, 1955-1975
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I examine the phenomenon of Modernist Afrikaans Protestant church architecture in the South African built environment during the mid- to late 20th century. I trace the relation of the ...
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Confronting the museum's colonial past : towards new strategies of institutional critique
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers how colonial narratives imbedded in the museum institution, may be unsettled and reframed by artist interventions. My interest in this subject is to question whether these interventions ...
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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 ...
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Visual enquiries and idiosyncratic selections : a close reading of dust
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the thesis, Visual Enquiries and Idiosyncratic Selections: A Close Reading of Dust, dust from the Ben Segal collection is investigated in order to explore what it may reveal about the idea and structure ...
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Homing : navigating the notions of home
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the complexities of home through the exploration of the embodiment of architecture, both human and non-human. I see the notion of home as a multifarious, visceral experience; ...
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Re-imagining the body in pain abjection and spectacle in the representation of pain
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Please refer to full text for abstract
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Liminality and ontological materiality : an investigation of a dualistic christian grand narrative, governing human relationship with the natural world
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is an investigation of the historical influence of Christianity on the grand narratives governing the human relationship with the natural world. It examines the role that certain central ...
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Syphilis, skin, and subjectivity : historical clinical photographs in the Saint Surgical Pathology Collection
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study concerns an archive of disused historical clinical photographs within the Saint Surgical Pathology Collection (SSC) that originally served as teaching aids for the benefit of student doctors ...
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Elitism in contemporary art : investigating high school learners' responses to the Cape Town Art Fair
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research was initiated as a result of my experience as an art learner in a high school and at university, where notable disparities in the approach between the institutions became evident. Traditional ...
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A diffractive analysis of a grade 10 art project conducted at the Tygerberg Art Centre situated in Parow, Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite indisputable proof that humanity’s attitudes and actions towards the earth pose alarming threats to both the earth’s life-supporting systems and humanity’s future as a species, we generally seem ...
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Compassionate citizenship through storytelling – an analysis of stereotypical views among ladies’ residence students in Huis ten Bosch on Stellenbosch Campus
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Stellenbosch University, and its campus residences, can be considered a place at which a very diverse group of students now need to share the space. However, transformation towards being a place where ...
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Investigating the human condition through the sculpted figure: exploring the artworks of Jane Alexander, Camille Claudel, Rook Floro, and William Kentridge
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: “Investigating the Human Condition through the Sculpted Figure” examines the expression of the human condition through the sculpted medium. This thesis will explore the notion of the shadow in the writings ...
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Fail and guard : an interactive public art inquiry into the underlying attitudes towards socio-economic discrepancies in Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: Economic inequality in South Africa can be witnessed on a daily basis in terms of unequal educational opportunities, vast differences in living conditions, and inconsistencies in job opportunities, but is ...
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Investigating salt through art jewellery
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This thesis is a materialist investigation of salt as a vibrant material within the practice of art jewellery. My art jewellery practice, with salt as main material, serves as the basis of this art ...
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Migrations : Photographic representations of biography, place and entanglement in contemporary South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Die volgende tesis fokus op die lewensverhale van vyf vrouens, elk ewe oud, wat afkomstig is van verskillende agtergronde en in Stellenbosch Suid Afrika gewoon het as migrante gedurende 2014 en 2015. ...
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Negotiating power relations
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: After two decades of democracy, the phrase ‘a troubled time’ could be seen as accurately describing the current educational reality of South Africa. Art education has, in particular, been described as being ...
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Introducing a diploma course at the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University: an investigation into attitudes and perceptions regarding social and racial transformation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The need for social change in an environment that is burdened with a history of segregation becomes evident in a landscape that remains largely culturally homogenous. Through art education with a focus on ...
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Investigating grade 3 learners' perceptions and attitudes toward skin colour in two schools in the Western Cape - a case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: During my time as an educator in the Western Cape I noticed that learners named a certain light-coloured wax crayon menskleur (‘human colour’) or ‘skin colour’. This occurrence is troublesome within the ...
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Imagining Paradise - The Aestheticized Garden as Articulation of a Mythic Western Imaginary of Paradise
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This study explores the extent to which the aestheticized garden can coercively articulate a mythic Western imaginary of paradise as the site for an occidental exotic fantasy of the East. The splendour ...
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Editorial Cartoons and Propaganda Posters of the Union of South Africa’s pro-war press during the First World War; 1914-1918
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The thesis investigates how editorial cartoons and propaganda posters of the pro-war South African press were employed during the First World War to recruit soldiers from British colonies. A brief ...
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Exploring matric art students’ interpretation of the art curriculum and the socio-political implications of the topic issue at three independent schools in Gauteng
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This research focused on the experiences and perceptions of 21 matric art students from three independent schools in Gauteng, and the socio-political implications of their given topic for the year 2015. ...
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Die plek van transkulturele kinderprenteboeke in Suid-Afrika
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Hierdie verhandeling is ‘n kritiese analise, vanuit my uitgangspunt as illustreerder, oor die rol wat transkulturele kinderprenteboeke in ‘n kontemporêre Suid-Afrika speel. Kinderprenteboeke het die ...
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Critical citizenship education : investigating new understandings in a teaching and learning environment at Montagu High School, Western Cape.
(2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research focused on the perceptions of critical citizenship of twelve participants who are Visual Arts learners at Montagu High School in the Western Cape. My aim with this research was to investigate ...
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If / Then : measuring matter through metaphor : a poetic exploration of science
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates physical and philosophical measurement within the context of a Masters Degree in Visual Arts. By unpacking concepts within science through a philosophical approach to material, ...
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Ways of seeing, knowing and gathering : taking art out of the classroom : exploring the scope for art education in the expanded field to benefit the transformative process of higher education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The tensions I experienced as a Stellenbosch University student made me curious to delve into potential exchanges between the boundaries of worthwhile art and valid education. I explored the capacity of ...
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Figuring from within : a study in history, painting and the work of Moses Tladi
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the significance of landscape painting in my own work and in the work of Moses Tladi, one of the lesser-known SA pioneer artists working in the oil painting convention. Through a ...
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Reflecting self : an exploration of drawing trace as reciprocity between self and life-world, with reference to my own drawing and selected works of Diane Victor
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study postulates that drawing functions as a valuable vehicle that facilitates reciprocity between the drafter and her life-world. This relationship of exchange can bring about transformation of ...
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New title : traversing uncertain co-ordinates in search of alternative trajectories
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universitty, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis traverses the complexities and entanglement of theoretical and practical processes in a Post-structural age. Through the deconstruction of stable systems of knowledge and thought, this age has ...
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When art informs : a case study to negotiate social stereotypes and stigmas through art at Taung Junior Secondary School
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: While every Botswana national can claim to be a citizen legally within the framework of the modern nation-state, some (minority groups in the main) are perceived by others (among the majority Tswana groups ...
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