• 'n Ondersoek na integrasie van teoretiese en praktiese komponente in die onderrig van Visuele Kunste in 'n Suid-Afrikaanse hoerskoolkonteks 

  Cronje, Daniel Christiaan (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 

  Jacobs, Daneille (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 

  Young, Tamlyn (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 

  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 ...

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