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Deciphering aspects of Azaria Mbatha's worldview located in specific religious themes and images employed in his work.
(2007)Azaria Mbatha's (1941 - ) work incorporates the many and various influences he has experienced throughout his life. Writers have tended towards essentialist readings of his work emphasizing proselytizing, resistance or ... -
Deviant doodling : contextualising the discourses of Zapiro in a socially responsible press.
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The Didima Rock Art Centre : a critical evaluation of the intersections of tourism, heritage conservation, and visual communication.
(2006)This dissertation critically evaluates the intersections of tourism, heritage conservation, and visual communication by exploring the display materials and Museology within the Didima Rock Art Centre, at Cathedral Peak, ... -
A documentary film on the Magwaza potters' production of Zulu beer ceramics.
(2006)This dissertation consists of two components. Firstly, a documentation of the production of Zulu beer ceramics by the Magwaza potters of Mpabelane, using the medium of documentary film; secondly, a written consideration ... -
Drama, spirituality and healing : towards a contextual exploration of dramatic methodologies for healing black gay men in the greater Pietermaritzburg area.
(2000)This study explores the interconnectedness of drama, spirituality and healing among an established group of black gay males in the Pietermaritzburg area who agreed to work with me towards self-empowerment through drama. ... -
Drawing as a generative medium in art making.
(2013)The research of a practice led PhD in Fine Arts consists of interrelated artwork and writing (Macleod and Holdridge 2005:197). In the dual practical and theoretical research for this PhD I examined drawing as a generative ... -
An ethnographic audience study of isiZulu-speaking UKZN students' responses to constructions of male characters in Muvhango.
(2015)This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the constructions of masculinity in soap opera, and focuses specifically on how a group of isiZulu-speaking students who study at the University of KwaZulu-Natal interpret ... -
Evaluation and critical analysis of the Chinese porcelains in the Whitwell collection Tatham Art Gallery: Pietermaritzburg.
(2002)The first chapter is a broad review of the recent history of Chinese porcelain from the Ming period to the present day. It includes remarks on the ceramics town of Jingdezhen and on aspects of materials, construction ... -
Experiencing artists' books : haptics and intimate discovery in the work of Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen and Cheryl Penn.
(2013)This dissertation centres on the classification of artists’ books based on the qualities they possess as works of art as well as the intimate engagement required by the reader in order to experience such works in their ... -
An exploration of drawing as it relates to the realisation of concept in art-making.
(2010)Drawing in the Visual Arts has been subject of scrutiny, fragmentation, and interpretation. Whether viewed as an objective academic pursuit or subjective experimental and explorative act, drawing can be perceived as largely ... -
A feminist critique of the concept of home in the work of selected contemporary white South African female artists.
(2011)In this dissertation I analyse and contextualise stereotypical notions associated with the concept of home, and what that constitutes, in the work of South African artists Antoinette Murdoch, Bronwen Findlay, Doreen ... -
From dislocation to redefinition of home in Nadine Gordimer’s the pickup and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s the Silent Minaret : a postcolonial perspective of home.
(2018)This study aims to investigate new understandings of ‘home’ as represented through the experiences of the migrant characters in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret. I am interested in the ... -
Hashtag activism : assessing the perceived value of online activism campaigns among UKZN (PMB) students.
(2017)The phenomenon of online activism is relatively new and thus, there is little in the way of research on the subject, particularly in the African and, more specifically, the South African context. This dissertation aims to ... -
Hearing the ‘Voiceless’ : Examining the #FeesMustFall movement as an issue community.
(2017)Hearing the ‘Voiceless’: Examining the #FeesMustFall movement as an issue community The hashtag #FeesMustFall was adopted by students on social media platforms as a rallying cry to unite students and the public to support ... -
Hilda Ditchburn : a teacher and pioneer of stoneware ceramics in Southern Africa.
(2008)The candidate's investigation of Hilda Ditchburn (nee Rose) (1917 - 1986) attempts to historically place the subject as a teacher and pioneer of stoneware ceramics within the context of studio ceramics in South Africa ... -
History, memory and inscription : an examination of selected works by South African artist Clive van den Berg.
(2000)This study examines the means by which Clive van den Berg (b.1956) presents and explores the South African landscape and recent past, and in so doing examines the evolution of van den Berg's process of looking and ... -
"How do I understand myself in this text-tortured land?" : identity, belonging and textuality in Antjie Krog's A change of tongue, Down to my last skin and Body bereft.
(2006)This thesis explores the question, “What literary strategies can be employed to allow as many people as possible to identify themselves positively with South Africa as a nation and a country?”. I focus in particular on the ... -
The inception of cross-cultural dimensions in the ceramics of the late 1970s onwards, as reflected in the work of Maggie Mikula and her adherents.
(2004)In this dissertation the incorporation of cross-cultural imagery and its assimilation is focused on the work of Maggie Mikula, a ceramist from KwaZulu-Natal. Producing within the 1970's and 1980's. her work is investigated ... -
Indigenous aesthetics and narratives in the works of Black South African artists in local art museums.
(2009)This dissertation is an amalgam of reformulated essays on artists who had connections with 20-21st century KwaZulu-Natal: They appeared in exhibition catalogues that accompanied the exhibitions; The Azaria Mbatha Retrospective, ... -
Interracial mumbo jumbo : Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom and Brett Bailey's theatre.
(2008)This dissertation explores the use of the Black performing body in the works Cards (2002) and Relativity: Township Stories (2006) by Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom and, iMumbo Jumbo (1997) and Big Dada: The Rise and Fall of Idi ...