Masters Degrees (Visual Arts)

Speelse plastiek : kontemporere juweliersware as bricolage : ’n praktyk-gebaseerde ondersoek

Labuschagne, Elizabeth Jacomina (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

Kirsten, Marnell (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

Biscombe, Monique Isabel (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

Kruger, Carla Maxine (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 ...

The meandering narrative : poetry and illustration engage in a moment of indiscipline : demonstrated in an analysis of Sara Fanelli’s illuminated poem - And all men kill the thing they love

Kreuser, Carla Louise (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a study about the inner workings of an illuminated poem – about the dialogue that develops between poetry and illustration when they encounter each other on the page. ...

Imaginative acts of photographic of self-representation as a critical response to representations of the black male body in South African photography

Kama, Lunga (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 ...

A case of emergence : autonomy and self-organisation in conceptual art practice

Le Roux, Neil (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis entails a practice-led theoretical discussion on generative art production within an ecological framework. It is based on my work in Eyemvelo Kosbos (2010- ), an interdisciplinary collaborative ...

Bibliotuiste as veronderstelde tussentuiste

Lyon, Marli (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: House, home, to be at-home-in-the-world and the need for a mobile home that accompanies us through our everyday life, are concepts upon which this thesis is built. I am of opinion that the constant mobility ...

An investigation of critical citizenship education : exploring art making processes in the South African context

Nieuwoudt, Leanri (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The notion of critical citizenship has become a diverse phenomenon in both South African and global contemporary societies. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the teaching and learning of ...

Surfacing fat : adiposity as adornment

Darries, Mouroodah Sulayman (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis provides a critical discussion of, and motivation for, my jewellery practice, in which fat from the human body is transformed into adornment. Drawing on Julia Kristeva’s theory of ‘abjection’, ...

After birth : abjection and maternal subjectivity in Svea Josephy's "Confinement"

Steyn, Christine (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I investigate the radical reframing of maternal representation in the photographic series by Cape Town-based artist Svea Josephy (b. 1969), entitled Confinement 2005-ongoing. Using Julia ...

Contemporary jewellery practices and the dialogic interpretation of African material culture

Burger, Idane (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I examine the extent to which interpretations of African material culture play a role in the creation and visualisation of an ‘African aesthetic style’ in South African contemporary ...

'n Ondersoek van die kritiese burgerskap komponent in die kuns en kultuur leerarea in die Suid-Afrikaanse kurrikulum (NKV)

Maritz, Yolandi (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

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Recollections of home : a study of the use of domestic objects and needlework in contemporary jewellery and my art practice

Van der Merwe, Catrina (Nini) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is motivated by my own art practice, which exhibits a keen interest in objects and activities historically associated with the domestic, specifically with relation to needlework, in the making ...

Narrating an unstable memory : a postmodern study of fictional pasts in the (auto/bio)graphic novel

Le Roux, Marike (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To write a life story the auto/biographer must reflect upon the past that was once experienced. When presented with this task of depending on memory and narrative, the auto/biographer often finds ...

A play of signifiers : absence and presence in the picturebooks of Shaun Tan

Lebedeva, Maria (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is an exploratory study into the signification potential of contemporary, postmodern picturebooks, specifically focusing on the way in which a seemingly 'simplistic' medium has the potential ...

Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death : ŉ vergelykende analise van die illustrasie van ŉ vermaan-verhaal

Visser, Carla (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study comprises a comparative visual analysis of three picture books, illustrated by Steven Kellogg, Posy Simmonds and Edward Gorey. The illustrators reinterpret the cautionary tale, Matilda, who ...

Hulle wil dit so hê : ontologiese anargie en die rewolusie van die verbeelding

Foster, John-Henry Edward (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study comprises a philosophical investigation into the development of a non-representational resistance against the State, with specific focus on the role of the imagination in both repression ...

Fragments of modernity, shadows of the gothic : questions of representation and perception in William Kentridge's "I am not me, the horse is not mine" (2008)

Stuart-Clark, Lucy Bena (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Contemporary South African artist William Kentridge’s experimentation with the visual strategies of European modernism and nineteenth-century optical devices, particularly the fragmented figure and shadow ...

Challenging the hand : critical confrontations of female craft and animal artefact in post-apartheid visual art

Whitehead, Johanna Jacoba (Hanje) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

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