Masters Degrees (Visual Arts)
Recent Submissions
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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. ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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. ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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, ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
The men in our living room : masculinities and the struggle for a 'new' South African hegemony in 'Egoli: place of gold' 1994
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study I analyse the 1994 episodes of the popular soap opera Egoli: Place of Gold that coincide with the so-called ‘birth’ of the New South Africa. This moment in media history is characterised by ...
-
Fragmented mnemonics : an investigation into contemporary jewellery as means of externalizing memory
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis interrogates my own memory in order to illustrate its fragmented and unstable nature. I revisit a specific childhood memory and attempt to recreate it visually through the creation of jewellery ...
-
Exploring critical citizenship and globalization discourse to conscientize industry expectations of design education at Universities of Technology
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Design educators are expected to demonstrate a high level of confidence in the industry for which they are preparing students. When I reflected upon my own design industry and higher education experience ...
-
Exploring critical thinking and critical citizenship education in a visual art course at a secondary school, KwaZulu-Natal
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Critical thinking and critical citizenship are generally considered to be desirable outcomes of the educational process as they enable students to make thoughtful choices. Citizenship Education does not ...
-
Drawing as experience
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Drawing, as a discipline within in the Visual Arts domain of knowledge is the focus of this dissertation. Herein I pose the question: What happens between my mind, body (hand), and the drawing (as ...
-
'n Ondersoek na integrasie van teoretiese en praktiese komponente in die onderrig van Visuele Kunste in 'n Suid-Afrikaanse hoerskoolkonteks
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The gap between the theoretical and practical aspects of art education is a trend that is discussed and investigated in both the South African and the global context. In 2009, I found that my students ...
-
Entering the grotto of the biomechanical puppeteer : exploring the grotesque in stop motion puppetry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the significance of stop motion puppetry as an artistic device that enables illustrators to explore the notion of the ‘grotesque’. Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Kayser’s theorisation ...
-
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 ...
-
Speelse plastiek : kontemporere juweliersware as bricolage : ’n praktyk-gebaseerde ondersoek
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates adults who play. Through my investigation, I discovered that play for adults is not distraction or a waste of time as is generally accepted. It is a basic need and necessary for ...
-
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
The cuff and the collar : a contemporary representation of seventeenth century symbols of power and oppression at the Cape of Good Hope
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the extent to which the cuff and the collar as semiotic entities played a significant role in the symbolic expression of power and oppression in the seventeenth century Cape of ...
RSS 1.0