Research Articles (Art History and Image Studies)
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Verkennende verbeeldingswêrelde: die ontsluiting van die Willem Boshoff Argief
(LitNet, 2017)The South African artist Willem Boshoff recently donated his digital archive, which serves as the source as well as the documentation of his artworks, to the University of the Free State in order to make it more accessible ... -
A (Tall) Tale of Two Sisters: Integrating rhetorical and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to explore unreliable narration in film
(University of the Free State, 2015)There is a sustained debate in the academy about the role of narratology in film studies. This article forms part of this larger debate in exploring the application of the concept of unreliable narration to films, ... -
The image and the brazen serpent: division, mediation and the translatability of cultures
(University of the Free State, 2010)English: This article confronts possible effects of the crisis of intercultural communication by investigating the transforming power of images to reorient or transfigure accepted cultural meanings. With current image ... -
Art historiography and Bild-wissenschaft: new perspectives on some objects by the Venda sculptor, Phutuma Seoka
(University of the Free State, 2012)English: It is argued that the apparatus of western art history has been sharpened by the current media consciousness. Typical art historical tools are self-consciously harnessed in the process of scrutinising objects which ... -
Luc Peire’s Mwinda Mingi (1955): a Belgian abstract painting on the Congo
(University of the Free State, 2012)English: As a young artist Luc Peire (1916-1994) was influenced by expressionism, but by 1955, when he painted Mwinda Mingi, his work had become predominantly abstract. The Lingala-title suggests this shift may have taken ...
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