Doctoral Degrees (Art History and Image Studies)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 — ... -
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, ...
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