The farm
| dc.contributor.advisor | Josephy, Svea | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Skotnes, Pippa | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Scholtz-Hofmeyr, Renzske | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-04T14:44:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-01-04T14:44:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_ZA |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical refences (p. 90-91). | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | During the late 1880s Gerhardus Robert Stewart and his wife Alida Johanna Maria Stewart, second generation settlers from the Great Trek, bought a 250-hectare farm 20 kilometres southwest of Pretoria. During the next 100 years the farm became a working farm, and supported a chalk quarry. The family grew and flourished and the land was passed down from generation to generation. ... This MFA project has been my attempt to represent this land and the meaning it holds and once held for my mother, her parents and grandparents. My strategy has been to act as curator, assembling 'the archive' the farm represents, and then finding a way of ordering the meaning that has flowed therefrom. In doing this I have had to, and wanted to, confront both an irrepressible attachment to an ancestral home and the ways in which land itself can appear changed, not by any physical alteration, but by the events that occur on it. In creating this project, I have attempted to resolve an irresolvable paradox – how to represent the past before the present.That this has proved, in this case in particular, to be impossible, has not rendered the attempt meaningless. Indeed, I believe and hope, it will raise in the viewer's mind the question of just how much we are able to see of what is before us that we do not already know, and how much the present can change the past. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Scholtz-Hofmeyr, R. (2011). <i>The farm</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11298 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Scholtz-Hofmeyr, Renzske. <i>"The farm."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11298 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Scholtz-Hofmeyr, R. 2011. The farm. University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Scholtz-Hofmeyr, Renzske AB - During the late 1880s Gerhardus Robert Stewart and his wife Alida Johanna Maria Stewart, second generation settlers from the Great Trek, bought a 250-hectare farm 20 kilometres southwest of Pretoria. During the next 100 years the farm became a working farm, and supported a chalk quarry. The family grew and flourished and the land was passed down from generation to generation. ... This MFA project has been my attempt to represent this land and the meaning it holds and once held for my mother, her parents and grandparents. My strategy has been to act as curator, assembling 'the archive' the farm represents, and then finding a way of ordering the meaning that has flowed therefrom. In doing this I have had to, and wanted to, confront both an irrepressible attachment to an ancestral home and the ways in which land itself can appear changed, not by any physical alteration, but by the events that occur on it. In creating this project, I have attempted to resolve an irresolvable paradox – how to represent the past before the present.That this has proved, in this case in particular, to be impossible, has not rendered the attempt meaningless. Indeed, I believe and hope, it will raise in the viewer's mind the question of just how much we are able to see of what is before us that we do not already know, and how much the present can change the past. DA - 2011 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2011 T1 - The farm TI - The farm UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11298 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11298 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Scholtz-Hofmeyr R. The farm. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2011 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11298 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Michaelis School of Fine Art | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.title | The farm | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationname | MFA | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Thesis | en_ZA |
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