Browsing Masters Degrees (Visual Arts) by Title

The abject, frail fourth age body: art jewellery as a tool to re-interpret aged female bodies

van Niekerk, Lani (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates art jewellery as social communicator and questions the way in which the Fourth Age female individual is perceived. The argument of this thesis will be presented in conjunction ...

The African Biennale : envisioning ‘authentic’ African contemporaneity

Mauchan, Fiona (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

This thesis aims to assess the extent to which the African curated exhibition, Dak’Art: Biennale de l’art africain contemporain , succeeds in subverting hegemonic Western representations of African art as necessarily ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antonin Artaud en Georg Baselitz : 'n psigo-analitiese perspektief as konteks vir my eie skilderwerk

Louw, Johann(Johannes) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1991-12)

ENGLISH SUMMARY: In this thesis I shall create a context for my own painting by discussing the works of A. Artaud and G. Baselitz. As a general introduction to A. Artaud, the first chapter shall entail a discussion of ...

Art and book : a commentary on artists' books

Emslie, Anne (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis investigates the contemporary practice of book art, examining in particular the manner in which it fits both into the tradition of the book and the tradition of art making. The thesis spans ...

Art and conversion : an investigation of ritual, memory and healing in the process of making art

Steyn, Sonja Gruner (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)

This thesis investigates the concept of conversion which arose out of the process of making soap as medium for my body of sculptural works and signifying its material transformation with ‘cleaning’ and ‘conversion’ – ...

Artists' books in the age of digital reproduction : an enquiry into the problematic nature and (in)accessability of book production as contemporary art

Van Aswegen, Helene (2012-03)

Beeld se gedagtes : 'n alternatiewe benadering tot die voorstellingsfunksie van die fotobeeld

Dorfling, Aletta (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)

AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is bemoei met die wyse waarop die fotobeeld konvensioneel aan 'n mimetiese kode van "gedrag" onderhewig is, met die gevolg dat alternatiewe voorstellingsfunksies dikwels buite oorweging ...

Besinning : verwaardiging van siekte

Kirsten, Marguerite (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the representation of the abject body in contemporary visual arts. I experience my own body as abject, through my personal experience with an all-consuming diseased body, caused ...

Betekenis in narratiewe illustrasie : ’n dissonante samewerking tussen woord en beeld

Dorfling, Aletta (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

This thesis is concerned with the way in which word and image can be utilized to question conventions about meaning-making. I am of the opinion that an interesting area of research is exposed when word and image are ...

Between colour lines : interrogating the category ‘coloured’ in depictions of District Six in the work of five South African artists

Cupido, Cameron Amelia (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 ...