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Browsing Masters Degrees (Visual Arts) by Title

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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bitterkomix en Stripshow : pornografie en satire in Afrikaanse ondergrondse strippe

Van Staden, Leonora (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)

This thesis aims to investigate the representation of gender in Afrikaans underground comics. Initially the work of Conrad Botes and Anton Kannemeyer in Bitterkomix, dating from 1992 to 2004, will be discussed, followed ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
Constructing the value of art : a sociological perspective on value creation at South African art auctions

Van Zyl, Marelize (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The value of art is a critical concept in theoretical discourse. As a result, the high prices of artworks on auctions pose questions about the various processes of value construction and the status of ...
The construction of multiple identites in the display of women as objects of desire and submission

Du Preez, Martelize (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)

As manufacturing jewellery artist, I have found that it is now most often women rather than men who commission or purchase jewellery. These women often earn substantial salaries and therefore they are in a position to ...
Contemporary avant-garde jewellery in South Africa

Boezaart, Kim (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers the dynamics and nature of neo-avant-garde jewellery with specific reference to contemporary South African (neoavant- garde) jewellery. In Chapter One defensible working descriptions ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...