Reconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artists

dc.contributor.advisorVan Robbroeck, Lize en_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorViljoen, Stellaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSteyn, Christineen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-21T10:06:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T10:20:03Z
dc.date.available2024-02-21T10:06:04Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T10:20:03Z
dc.date.issued2024-03
dc.description Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study, I examine the visual reframing of mothering by four South African women artists whose projects conceptualise maternal subjectivity through the bodily and psychological experiences of pregnancy, birth and mothering. The principle thesis of my research is that the selected artists’ engagement with maternal subjectivity can be addressed through an exploration of the maternal body’s ability to disrupt conventional experiences of time. Presenting an alternative discourse of maternal embodiment, the artworks offer ways to consider how rethinking maternity might reformulate our experience and thinking about lived time as that which is dynamic, relational and, at times, conflicting, revealing the intrinsic intra-activity of being.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie ondersoek ek die visuele versinnebeelding van moederskap deur vier Suid-Afrikaanse vrouekunstenaars wie se projekte moedersubjektiwiteit konseptualiseer deur die liggaamlike en psigologiese ervarings van swangerskap, geboorte en moederskap. Die kernargument van my navorsing is dat die geselekteerde kunstenaars se betrokkenheid by moedersubjektiwiteit verstaan kan word deur 'n verkenning van die moederliggaam se vermoë om konvensionele ervarings van tyd te ontwrig. Die kunswerke bied 'n alternatiewe diskoers van moederlike beliggaming aan wat tot ‘n herbesinning van moederskap spreek in terme van ons ervaring van en denke rondom geleefde tyd as iets wat dinamies, relasioneel en soms teenstrydig kan wees. Sodoende spreek hierdie studie tot moederskap as ‘n bewuswording van die intrinsieke intra-aktiwiteit van wees.af_ZA
dc.description.versionStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.format.extentxiii, 298 pages : illustrations
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/130238
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshMothers in arten_ZA
dc.subject.lcshVisual arten_ZA
dc.subject.lcshWomen artists -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshMotherhood -- Psychological aspectsen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshMothers -- Psychologyen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshPregnancy in arten_ZA
dc.subject.lcshChildbirth -- Social aspectsen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshMotherhood and the artsen_ZA
dc.subject.nameUCTD
dc.titleReconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artistsen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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