Browsing Masters Degrees (Media, Visual Arts and Drama) by Title
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The nineteenth-century French landscape painting collection in the Tatham Art Gallery.
(2004)This dissertation initially attempts a brief history of the landscape tradition in the West with the emphasis on developments in nineteenth-century French landscape painting. A collection of these paintings in the Tatham ... -
Thelma Marcuson's porcelain vessels in the Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
(2012)The aim of this dissertation is to contextualise the use of porcelain by the South African ceramist Thelma Marcuson (1919-2009). This paper focuses on her ceramics in the Tatham Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection in ... -
This land is us : aspects of the Plaasroman and hospitality in five post-apartheid Karoo novels.
(2011)This dissertation investigates five texts: Damon Galgut‟s The Imposter (2008), Anne Landsman‟s The Devil’s Chimney (1998), Eben Venter‟s My Beautiful Death (1998) and Trencherman (2008) and Zoë Wicomb‟s David’s Story ... -
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 ... -
Using the participatory mode of documentary filmmaking for knowledge exchange and empowerment : a case study of house-hold food security in the uMgungundlovu district of South Africa.
(2016)This study explores the usefulness of a participatory video approach in facilitating knowledge exchange and community empowerment. In this vein, participatory video is used as a methodological approach to conduct a ... -
The violent brushstroke : contributions from the independent school of British psychoanalysis to the art of Willem de Kooning.
(2005)This thesis begins with a consideration of the contributions of modem and contemporary ideas to the field of aesthetics. Out of these contributions, selected theorists from the Independent School of British Psychoanalysis ... -
Vocality : an exploration of the actor's voice in the production of metamorphosis at the Hexagon Studio Theatre, UKZN and at the Grahamstown Festival (2011).
(2016)This case study explores aspects of actors’ voices in the Grahamstown production of Metamorphosis using action research with practise-based research techniques and self-reflexivity, focusing on emerging themes and subthemes. ... -
Voicing the voiceless: exploring the communicative practices, attitudes and perceptions of black men who have sex with men (BMSM) in the Msunduzi Local Municipality towards pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
(2018)Background: The approval of Truvada as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) by the Medicines Council of South Africa in 2015, signalled a new beginning in the fight against HIV and AIDS especially for underserved key populations ...