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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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'n Ondersoek na en dekonstruksie van die taal (beeld en teks) vervat in die visuele narratief met spesiale verwysing na die komiekstripmedium

Ferreira, Rikus (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is concerned with a study of the two basic elements of communication, namely image and text. How these basic communication tools function in the genre of the visual narrative with regard ...
Fiction, friction and fracture : autobiographic novels as a site for changing discouses [i.e. discourses] around subjectivity, truth and identity

Lombard, Sunell (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The concept of the self or subject is more relevant now than ever, since society’s perceptions about selfhood are in the process of changing. Autobiography is an important site for the critical discussion ...
Cowboys and cocks : the heterosexual construction and homosexual appropriation of masculinity

Schlechter, Willem Philippus George (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the performative construction and appropriations of heteronormative masculinities by heterosexual and homosexual men respectively. My interest in masculinity as a culturally constructed ...
Distopie in die grafiese roman : V for Vendetta as voorbeeld

Nienaber, J. E. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the genre of dystopian fiction in the graphic novel, V for Vendetta in which a futuristic police state, run by a totalitarian regime is portrayed. Since V for Vendetta draws on a ...
Cultural evolution & genre : an investigation of three graphic narratives of the South African Border War (1975-1988)

Du Plessis, Daniel Marthinus (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Cultural evolution & genre: an investigation of three South African graphic narratives of the South African Border war (1975-1988) Magister in Fine Arts thesis, Department of Fine Arts, Stellenbosch ...
Flesh for fantasy : exposing the sexualised and manipulated female persona in contemporary women's media

Hunter, Catherine Wood (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on the representation of women in media aimed at women. A critical examination of visual communication (magazines, advertising and visual story-telling1) will demonstrate that the ...

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