Classroom facilities : a body of creative work exploring representations of knowledge through schematic means

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dc.contributor.advisorPayne, Malcolmen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorClark, Julia Rosaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-02T13:22:16Z
dc.date.available2014-10-02T13:22:16Z
dc.date.issued2004en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 78-83.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractI had just turned thirteen and it was the summer before high school started. My mother and I went over to the Roberts' house. Ruby had just matriculated from the same school and was handing down her faded old checked uniforms. To my amazement, there in the lounge bathed in afternoon January sunlight, was her father Billy, kneeling, deeply absorbed in a large strange chart that had been laid out on the floor. It was a school timetable and it was his task, as vice principle, to organise the day-to-day workings of the year ahead. The timetable was scattered with various coloured shapes that he shuffled back and forth across the gridded surface, trying to make a coherent system. This anecdote is important to my body of work for three reasons. The first is that Mr. Roberts' challenging activity that day is not unlike the process of sorting and reordering that is central to my work. The appearance of the chart is mimicked in the schemata-like quality of many of my pieces, as is its conceptual framework - an urge to order a set of already existing pieces into a new, meaningful and functional relationship. Ruby's uniforms are also important. I cherished these second-hand dresses precisely because of the qualities they acquired through having been worn already. These dresses were softer to touch, had a better fit and more beauty in colour --soft pink checks as opposed to harsh maroon-- than other girls' crisp new sacks.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationClark, J. R. (2004). <i>Classroom facilities : a body of creative work exploring representations of knowledge through schematic means</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8006en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationClark, Julia Rosa. <i>"Classroom facilities : a body of creative work exploring representations of knowledge through schematic means."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8006en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationClark, J. 2004. Classroom facilities : a body of creative work exploring representations of knowledge through schematic means. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Clark, Julia Rosa AB - I had just turned thirteen and it was the summer before high school started. My mother and I went over to the Roberts' house. Ruby had just matriculated from the same school and was handing down her faded old checked uniforms. To my amazement, there in the lounge bathed in afternoon January sunlight, was her father Billy, kneeling, deeply absorbed in a large strange chart that had been laid out on the floor. It was a school timetable and it was his task, as vice principle, to organise the day-to-day workings of the year ahead. The timetable was scattered with various coloured shapes that he shuffled back and forth across the gridded surface, trying to make a coherent system. This anecdote is important to my body of work for three reasons. The first is that Mr. Roberts' challenging activity that day is not unlike the process of sorting and reordering that is central to my work. The appearance of the chart is mimicked in the schemata-like quality of many of my pieces, as is its conceptual framework - an urge to order a set of already existing pieces into a new, meaningful and functional relationship. Ruby's uniforms are also important. I cherished these second-hand dresses precisely because of the qualities they acquired through having been worn already. These dresses were softer to touch, had a better fit and more beauty in colour --soft pink checks as opposed to harsh maroon-- than other girls' crisp new sacks. DA - 2004 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2004 T1 - Classroom facilities : a body of creative work exploring representations of knowledge through schematic means TI - Classroom facilities : a body of creative work exploring representations of knowledge through schematic means UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8006 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/8006
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationClark JR. Classroom facilities : a body of creative work exploring representations of knowledge through schematic means. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2004 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8006en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentMichaelis School of Fine Arten_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherFine Artsen_ZA
dc.titleClassroom facilities : a body of creative work exploring representations of knowledge through schematic meansen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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