Doctoral Degrees (Art History)
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Unlocking the past: encountering history through museum theatre, as explored in the KwaMuhle Museum, Durban.
(2021)This thesis explores the use of museum theatre as a means to teach, learn about and interrogate past narratives through the use of performance in places of historical significance. The research is situated within the ... -
Screw You! This Flag Is Theirs Too: Reconstructing Narratives And Challenging Perceptions with Zimbabwean Sex Workers.
(2021)This is a story about Zimbabwean sex workers’ stories. What their experiences are, and how they make sense of them within the heteronormative hegemony that is Zimbabwe. A space in which to be a sex worker is to be an ... -
Developing a methodology for creative interpretation of traditional dramatic texts in post-apartheid theatre: a case study of Shakespearean interpretation at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2021)While student demographics in higher education have changed to reflect South Africa’s multicultural society, many universities are still offering traditional Drama curricula with colonial-based content. This thesis focuses ... -
The art collection at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: an appraisal of content and purpose.
(2021)This research examines the Art Collection held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal through a metamodernist (and where relevant metaformalist) paradigm that embraces both modernist and postmodernist narrative and explores ... -
‘Sotho-Tswana’ Difala vessels in selected South African museums: challenges in descriptions and catalogues.
(2019)This thesis focuses on specific rare examples of Sotho-Tswana indigenous vessels, known as Difala (‘granary vessels’ made of dung), in selected South African museums, with the aim to, firstly, contextualise the vessels in ... -
The development of the relationship between technique and ideal in Diderot's salons (1759 - 1767).
(2017)Abstract available in PDF file.
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