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The politics of dress, gender and sexuality in Malawian popular art
This proposed study, which is an extension of my current research, sets out to examine the representations of the chitenje (a wrap-around cloth) in Malawian popular arts, as a site for examining how questions of gender, sexuality, class, and national belonging are negotiated.
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South African nuclear art: a first reflection
van Wyk, J.-A. 2025. South African nuclear art: a first reflection. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.20...
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Index of (B)reachings (2000)
An artist is trained to be visually aware.
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The Art and Visuality of Contact between Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, c. 1450-1550
Increasingly, from the later part of the fifteenth century, European traders and travellers had seen people and places in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Documentary, Desire, Description: South Africa’s ‘Second World War’ and the mediation/materialisation of ‘witness’
This project centres on South Africa’s first illustrated magazine Libertas (1940 -1946) a vehicle of anti-Fascist advocacy and propaganda for pro-Allied engagement in WW2.
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School Photos in Liquid Time
Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer. 2020. School Photos in Liquid Time. University of Washington Press. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029574...
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The Disorder Project
The Disorder is a body of work developed under the rubric of an ongoing project namely, To Be King.
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The Aesthetics of Violence
Appelbaum, Robert. 2017. The Aesthetics of Violence. Art, Fiction, Drama and Film. Rowman & Littlefield International. http://www.rowmaninte...
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From Indian Ocean to African Indian: Through the refracted lens of Capital Art Studio, Zanzibar
What happens when an Indian Ocean past meets an African Indian present in a collection of photographs by Ranchhod and Rohit Oza, family proprietors of Capital Art Studio who together visually captured the worldly place (and centre of the dhow trade and culture) of Zanzibar from 1930 until the present day?
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School Photos and their Afterlives: Assimilation, Exclusion, Resistance
Appearing very early in the history of photography and pervasive throughout the world, school-class photos, like report cards and diplomas, confirm group belonging and exposure to a process of educational acculturation and socialization.
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The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction and Film
One can identify an ‘aesthetics’ of violence in any representation of a violent act where form and textuality are essential elements to the experience to the representation.