Browsing Research Output by Author "10187464 - Swanepoel, Magritha Christiana"
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Afrikaner identity formations in Willem Boshoff’s 32 000 Darling Little Nuisances (2003) and Jan van der Merwe’s Wag (2000)
Swanepoel, M.C.; Goosen, M. (AHWG, 2015)Hierdie artikel ondersoek die wyses waarop die Suid-Afrikaanse konseptuele kunstenaars Willem Boshoff in 32 000 Darling Little Nuisances [32 000 Skattige Klein Lasposte] en Jan van der Merwe in Wag kompleksiteite van ... -
Blinde alfabet: ʼn Moedswillige Willem Boshoff reken af met meerderwaardigheid – ʼn neo-Marxistiese interpretasie
Swanepoel, Rita (Litnet, 2013)In heelwat van sy taalgebaseerde konseptuele installasies moedig die kunstenaar Willem Boshoff aanskouers van sy werke tot gesprekvoering aan. Die doel van die gesprekke is hoofsaaklik om die dominasie van sogenaamde ... -
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 ... -
De/acculturation of identity: diaspora in selected photo installations by Searle and Farber
Goosen, M.; Swanepoel, M.C. (AHWG, 2015)This article investigates the de/acculturation of identity (as brought forth specifically by diaspora) as visually represented by contemporary South African artists Berni Searle and Leora Farber. Specific focus is placed ... -
The grotesque as it appears in Western art history and in Ian Marley's creative creatures
Swanepoel, Magritha Christiana (Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte = Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2009)This article presents a theoretical exploration and reading of the notion of the grotesque in Western history of art to serve as background to the reading of the original creatures in the "Tracking creative creatures" ... -
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 ... -
Kuns en die verwerking van die verlede
Swanepoel, Rita (Department of Visual Arts: University of Pretoria, 2013)Ten spyte van ʼn demokrasie van bykans twintig jaar sit Suid-Afrikaners steeds opgesaal met die komplekse nalatenskap van ʼn verlede gekenmerk deur rassespanning. Direk na die eerste demokratiese verkiesing in die land ... -
Oor die einders van die bladsy as konseptuele kuns
Swanepoel, Rita M.C. (AOSIS, 2012)This article offers a philosophical overview of conceptual art. I argue that, since the project Transgressions and boundaries of the page transgresses and conceptually extends the boundaries of the concept of the book, ... -
The Tambani project: a computer animation of The greedy hippo
Swanepoel, Rita M.C.; Van der Westhuizen, Christiaan (AOSIS, 2012)This article presented an investigation of and reflection on the techniques and production processes used to transform a traditional Ngano Venda folktale, The Greedy Hippo, from embroideries into a digitally animated ... -
Vervreemding in Leora Farber se The futility of writing 24-page letters (2009)
Swanepoel, Rita M.C.; Goosen, Moya (AOSIS, 2012)This article investigates the concept of alienation in Leora Farber’s The futility of writing 24-page letters (as an extension of a work titled Between Cup and Lip as part of the Dis-Location/Re-Location, 2007/2008 ... -
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. ...