Browsing Art History and Image Studies by Issue Date
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Europees-historiese vormtaalelemente in die Nederduits-Gereformeerde kerkargitektuur van die Groot-Karoo
(University of the Free State, 1978-01)Afrikaans: In die ondersoek na die Europees-historiese vormtaalelemente in die Nederduits-Gereformeerde kerke van die Groot-Karoo en omgewing is bevind dat dié kerke veral deel het aan die herlewingstyle wat in die 19e ... -
The picaresque tradition feminism and ideology critique
(University of the Free State, 1999)English: Calvin Seerveld evocatively uses the literary term 'picaresque' in his transposition into visual and imaginary terms, of the philosopher D. H. Th. Vollenhoven's typology of philosophical conceptions. In this study ... -
El Greco's achievement of his personal maniera
(University of the Free State, 2002-12)English: Domenicos Theotocopoulos, generally known as El Greco, was born in Crete in 1541. Before he left his native island he was a competent, late Byzantine painter. In his late twenties, he went to Venice, where he ... -
Kreatiwiteit as sistemiese faktor in die visuele kuns: 'n kritiese kunsteoretiese besinning
(University of the Free State, 2004-11)English: The aim of this project is to develop an art theoretical model which can be applied in higher education context in order to give an account of the way according to which creativity is established as a systemic ... -
Melancholy constellations: Walter Benjamin Anselm Kiefer, William Kentridge and the imaging of history as catastrophe
(University of the Free State, 2007-05)This dissertation is a study in representation. More specifically, it is a study in the representation of art and of art history as melancholy representation. The latter is produced or opens up, because objects of art — ... -
Selfaanbieding: Rembrandt en die gebroke-kosmiese tradisie
(University of the Free State, 2009-03)English: This research ensued from a prior thesis — Artist's portrait and self-portrait: the art historical traces of artistic self-presentation (M.A. University of he Free State, 1992) — and was supplemented by a growing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Retrospektiewe vervreemding van tegnologiese media: animasieprosesse by William Kentridge
(University of the Free State, 2013-01)English: Although the South-African artist, William Kentridge has practised his creativity in many domains (as observer, activist, artist, storyteller and thinking director) in a wide range of media (including land art, ... -
Beyond spectatorship: an exploration of embodied engagement with art
(University of the Free State, 2014-10)English: According to proponents of the so-called ‘sensory turn’ the varied layers of a person’s experience of the social and material world produced via the senses of taste, touch, hearing and smell have largely been ... -
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, ... -
Exploring the imagination in the wake of Surrealism
(University of the Free State, 2015-10)English: This thesis reports an exploration of various interrelated facets of human imaging and imagining using the literary and artistic movement, French Surrealism, as catalyst. The ‘wake of Surrealism’ – a vigil held ... -
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 ...