Masters Degrees (Visual Arts)
Recent Submissions
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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 ...
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The story of Charlotte Maxeke : an analysis of how visual arts can be utilised to reflect on race, gender, identity and citizenship in the South African higher educational context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The history of South Africa represents oppressive systems of racial discrimination and subjugation, systems that were used in the construction of social institutions. Grounded in the institutionalisation ...
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The story of how it was made : an investigation of artistic practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This book is centred on the very act of artistic creation, in other words making. I aim to demonstrate that art making is a meaningful, generative and transformative activity. Specifically, I will argue ...
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Punt, lyn en vlak : tekenpraktyk as demokratiese wyse van maak.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I ask the question: How to move from a point of state to an expanded and changed field with new possibilities? In this study the standpoint is held that both design and art is transforming ...
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Exploring safe spaces for students to engage with critical and caring thinking regarding portrayals of ‘self’ and ‘other’
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As an educator at a private higher education institution, I have observed that there is very little critical dialogue on politically sensitive issues in the classes I teach. A sense of rainbowism, which ...
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Criss-cross : on weaving as a time-based process
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates weaving as a method concerned with the process of making rather than a process centred around the outcome (as is customary). My work is situated in a fast-paced and technologically-driven ...
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Redrawing ecology : dark ecological thought in art-design practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis follows my practice based research process as a visual communication designer concerned with visualising deep ecological thought. Throughout this thesis, I apply Timothy Morton’s dark ecology ...
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Perceptions of globalisation : how high school learners perceive and express their understanding of globalisation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As an art educator, my role is to assist learners to assign a deeper meaning to art. Learners need to be guided to connect with art on a greater than superficial level based on the obvious aesthetic. ...
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Minding matter : reflecting and fixating on landscape painting
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aimed to consolidate the changes in my perception of the concept of landscape brought about while creating a body of landscape paintings. In the context of practice-based research (reflection-in-action ...
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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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