Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "Swanepoel, M.C. [Rita]"
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A critical reassessment of the explorer artist Charles Davidson Bell's (1813–1882) Cattle Boers' Outspan (n.d.)
Swanepoel, M.C. [Rita]; Strydom, Richardt (AHWG, 2012)This article investigates the depiction of Afrikaner ancestry in Charles Davidson Bell’s (1813-1882) Cattle boers’ outspan (s.a.) (fig. 1) within the genre of explorer art. This critical revisiting of Bell – better known ... -
Konseptuele kunstenaar Willem Boshoff se geheime briewe aan Nelson Mandela
Swanepoel, M.C. [Rita] (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born 1918) is all over the world respected as a political freedom icon, and a beloved leader affectionately known as Madiba. He served 27 years in prison on Robben Island, in Pollsmoor and ... -
Willem Boshoff and materiality according to Adorno
Swanepoel, M.C. [Rita] (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)This article presents a reading of South African artist Willem Boshoff’s installation Writing that fell off the wall (1997) to illustrate how he used his material to expose colonialism and apartheid as inhuman ideologies. ...