Browsing Masters Degrees (Media, Visual Arts and Drama) by Issue Date
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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, ... -
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 ... -
Maturation, old age and mortality in western art : idealism versus realism.
(2007)The central premise of this research is the paradox between idealism and realism in the visual arts in the context of the themes of maturation, old age and mortality. Throughout the history of art there have been artworks ... -
Marietjie van der Merwe : ceramics 1960-1988.
(2007)This dissertation will contextualize and analyse selected works of the South African ceramist Marietjie van der Merwe (bl935 dl992; known professionally as Marietjie, aka Mariki, Marikie) between 1960-1988. The text consists ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Questioning heritage : colonial ideologies in contemporary museum practice.
(2008)The research problem to be explored in this study is to what extent colonial ideologies continue to influence museum society and contemporary museum practices. The museological display of non-Western, and specifically ... -
Understanding whiteness in South Africa with specific reference to the art of Brett Murray.
(2009)The white male artist whose self-interrogation attaches to his whiteness, difference and former centrality, inevitably exposes himself to the critical scrutiny of current discourse on race and whiteness studies. In this ... -
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, ... -
Personal history and collective memory : images of social and political history in the art of four South African women artists.
(2010)This study examines the means by which four South African woman artists, namely Penny Siopis, Jo Ractliffe, Lien Botha and Tania Kühl use memory and history as themes to represent social and political events in South Africa. ... -
The mirror as device : a study of the mirror motif in select examples of South African and western artworks.
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Life in the game : identity in the age of online computer games.
(2010)Whether virtual reality will have positive or negative implications on the social structure is debatable, but one thing is certain- virtual reality will play an increasingly important role in public and private life as we ... -
The art of dying : depictions of death in the work of Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin and David Buchler.
(2010)This dissertation explored visual representations of death in the photographic work of Andres Serrano and Joel-Peter Witkin, as well as the MAFA candidate's (David Buchler) own art practice. It looked at historical overviews ... -
Africa in travel journalism : a postcolonial comparative study of the representation of Africa in the travel magazines Getaway, Africa geographic and Travel Africa.
(2010)My research examines how Africa is represented within the meaning-making arena of travel journalism specifically focusing on the travel publications Travel Africa, Getaway and Africa Geographic. The principal focus for ... -
Clay-earth-skin : an exegesis of material and process in Kim Bagley's ceramics.
(2010)This study is a practice-led research project in the field of studio ceramics. It focuses on the materials and processes of making vessels and hollow sculptural forms by Kim Bagley, in partial fulfilment of the MAFA degree. ... -
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 ... -
Ceramic narrative : storytelling and Ardmore Ceramic Studio.
(2011)This dissertation explores the importance of narrative in Ardmore ceramic ware and determines how and to what effect ceramic narrative is used by Ardmore Ceramic Studio. It gives a historical overview of narrative in ceramic ... -
The role of bloggers in the construction of Zimbabwean national identities : a case study of three Zimbabwean blogs during the 2008 presidential elections.
(2011)Blogging continues to get attention in the field of communication studies for reasons such as its differences with traditional media and its various effects in societies. The first part of this dissertation provides the ...