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Multimodal jewellery : jewellery as personal adornment and visual artefact in the work of selected jewellers
Full text linkAbstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the function that contemporary jewellery occupies outside its traditional role as personal adornment. This will be achieved by producing work that encompasses clearly wearable and artistic elements—depending on how one interacts with the work—thus making it both personal adornment and an independent visual artefact. My study will also challenge traditional definitions of jewellery. This will inform my practice in which I investigate the dual function of jewellery, through the manufacturing of a range of contemporary jewellery pieces which incorporate a sculptural dimension. As a result, I explore the relationship between contemporary jewellery and visual art...M.A. (Jewellery Design and Manufacture
Exchanging symbols : monuments and memorials in post-apartheid South Africa
Full text linkCITATION: Nettleton, A. & Fubah, M. A. 2019. Exchanging symbols : monuments and memorials in post-apartheid South Africa. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928480594.The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/zaThis book comprises eight essays that consider the politics and polemics of monuments in Africa in the wake of the #RhodesMustFall movement in 2015. The removal of the Rhodes statue from UCT main campus is the pivot on which the discussion of monuments as heritage in South Africa turns. It raised a number of questions about the implementation of heritage policy and the unequal deployment of memorials in the South African and other postcolonial landscapes. The essays in this volume are written by authors coming from different backgrounds and different disciplines. They address different aspects of this event and its aftermath, offering some intensive critique of existing monuments, analysing the successes of new initiatives, meditating on the visual resonances of all monuments and attempting to map ways of moving forward.Introduction / Mathias Alubafi Fubah & Anitra Nettleton;
1 Statues of Liberty? / Sharlene Swartz, Benjamin Roberts, Steven L Gordon & Jarè Struwig; 2 By design, survival and recognition / Anitra Nettleton; 3 In whose name? On statues, place and pain in South Africa / Alude Mahali; 4 Troubling statues: A symptom of a complex heritage complex / Sipokazi Madida / 5 Heritage denunciation and heritage enunciation? / Thabo Manetsi; 6 Present absence / Guy Königstein; 7 This fragile present: Verfremdung as a strategy of memorial
in the work of contemporary South African artists / Nancy Dantas; 8 Struggle heroes and heroines statues and
monuments in Tshwane, South Africa / Mathias Alubafi Fubah & Catherine Ndindahttps://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za/book/exchanging-symbols-monuments-and-memorials-in-post-apartheid-south-africa/999393Publisher's versio
Scars, beads, bodies: pointure and punctum in nineteenth-century “Zulu” beadwork and its photographic imaging
Full text linkIn the nineteenth century, two imports to South Africa, beadwork and photography, were to impact on the ways in which people presented themselves to the gaze of others. Both required some forms of pointing and stitching, both within the things they constructed, and between the things they constructed and the bodies of those they made visible. Both were imported via colonial intrusion and were used to control the local population by visibly binding them to particular identities. At the same time local populations used these imports to reinforce their own identities and to speak back to the power of the colonists.
The first import, of glass beads to the east coast, resulted in a tradition of beadwork in a multitude of styles. I examine the ways in which beadwork can to be linked to isiZulu-speakers’ scarification in the way it is tied to the body, worn and sometimes even stitched into the hair. I argue that these praxes talk of beadwork as a creation of a second level of skin and of a combined, layered set of meanings and identities.
The second import, photography, allowed the different manners of scarring and of wearing beadwork to be recorded over a long time span. By bringing together the indexical function of photography (via Barthes) to record identities, the pointing of the camera at the object to be fixed, the bodies, the scars and the beadwork and, I argue, following Jacques Derrida’s (2009 [1978]) notion of "pointure", that the photographs have been laced onto, and entangle irretrievably with, that which they supposedly “represent”
Historical dimensions in the study of figurative wood-carving in South Africa
No full textican Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 17 March 1986.It is a widely accepted and disseminated tenet in virtually all
the literature on African art that no tradition of figurative
sculpture comparable to that of West and Central Africa existed
in Southern Africa. This notion has bad and continues to
have such wide currency in the literature that many blacks in
South Africa are entirely unaware of the existence of their own
artistic heritage. The propagation and perpetuation of this
myth has been predicated on the most meagre of evidence. It
is significant in the light of the argument that follows, that
the South African Government itself, in pamphlets issued for the
information of prospective white immigrants from Europe, continues to propagate this view of black South Africans as "fine-art" less. Here I am mast concerned with the presentation of these peoples as having had no tradition of figurative free-standing sculpture as it was this form of material culture which had the widest acceptance in Europe and America as "Art". This situation, has been exacerbated by the tendency in all the general literature on African art to represent Southern Africa with photographs of utilitarian objects such as headrests, milk pails and spoons among others. What this paper will attempt, then, is to examine why this myth has gained such wide acceptance and it will be examined in relation both to the history of the study or lack thereof of woodcarving traditions in South Africa and to the actual distribution, of such traditions
Arts and Africana: hierarchies of material culture
No full textPaper presented at the Wits History Workshop: Myths, Monuments, Museums; New Premises? 16-18 July, 199
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
[catalog] African tribal sculpture exhibition /
No full textUniversity of Witwatersrand, Gertrude Posel gallery, Johannesburg, March 19-April 12, 197
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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