Elisions and lacunae: aspects of South African landscape in relation to public and private identities

dc.contributor.advisorPayne, Malcolm
dc.contributor.authorFarlam, Catherine Mary
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-16T13:20:06Z
dc.date.available2023-09-16T13:20:06Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.date.updated2023-09-16T13:19:06Z
dc.description.abstractThis project is concerned with articulating a number of positions around meaning and hegemony in museums and how such relationships can be refigured. It looks at how texts have been written in a unique exhibition in South Africa, the William Fehr Collection at the Castle. This Collection is unique in that the specific conditions of its sale to the state in 1964 determine its function as a museum within a museum. It is also unique in that its first public showing was as part of the Jan van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival of 1952, where it formed the bulk of a Historical Exhibition of Arts at the Castle. I examine how meanings are constructed in the Collection, and how these meanings gain authority in abstract terms through conceptualising space in particular ways. I argue that how space is conceptualised forms a site of critical intervention. I counter the notion of absolute space with a commitment to mobile positioning. To do this, I look at how landscape conventions at Table Bay (wellrepresented in the Collection) apparently construct a singular position, extending this into an examination of how meanings have been refigured in museums by a number of conceptual artists. I suggest that this project can be extended into a physical intervention in the form of an audio-tour through the Collection. I have produced such an acoustiguide entitled A Passage through the William Fehr Collection. This thirty-five minute tour is available from the Professional Officer of the William Fehr Collection at the Castle.
dc.identifier.apacitationFarlam, C. M. (1995). <i>Elisions and lacunae: aspects of South African landscape in relation to public and private identities</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38709en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationFarlam, Catherine Mary. <i>"Elisions and lacunae: aspects of South African landscape in relation to public and private identities."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38709en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationFarlam, C.M. 1995. Elisions and lacunae: aspects of South African landscape in relation to public and private identities. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38709en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Master Thesis AU - Farlam, Catherine Mary AB - This project is concerned with articulating a number of positions around meaning and hegemony in museums and how such relationships can be refigured. It looks at how texts have been written in a unique exhibition in South Africa, the William Fehr Collection at the Castle. This Collection is unique in that the specific conditions of its sale to the state in 1964 determine its function as a museum within a museum. It is also unique in that its first public showing was as part of the Jan van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival of 1952, where it formed the bulk of a Historical Exhibition of Arts at the Castle. I examine how meanings are constructed in the Collection, and how these meanings gain authority in abstract terms through conceptualising space in particular ways. I argue that how space is conceptualised forms a site of critical intervention. I counter the notion of absolute space with a commitment to mobile positioning. To do this, I look at how landscape conventions at Table Bay (wellrepresented in the Collection) apparently construct a singular position, extending this into an examination of how meanings have been refigured in museums by a number of conceptual artists. I suggest that this project can be extended into a physical intervention in the form of an audio-tour through the Collection. I have produced such an acoustiguide entitled A Passage through the William Fehr Collection. This thirty-five minute tour is available from the Professional Officer of the William Fehr Collection at the Castle. DA - 1995 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Fine Art LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 1995 T1 - Elisions and lacunae: aspects of South African landscape in relation to public and private identities TI - Elisions and lacunae: aspects of South African landscape in relation to public and private identities UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38709 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/38709
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationFarlam CM. Elisions and lacunae: aspects of South African landscape in relation to public and private identities. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 1995 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38709en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentMichaelis School of Fine Art
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.subjectFine Art
dc.titleElisions and lacunae: aspects of South African landscape in relation to public and private identities
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
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