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Reconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artists
Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/130238 Reconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artists Steyn, Christine Van Robbroeck, Lize Viljoen, Stella Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. Mothers in art Visual art Women artists -- South Africa Motherhood -- Psychological aspects Mothers -- Psychology Pregnancy in art Childbirth -- Social aspects Motherhood and the arts UCTD Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2024. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study, I examine the visual reframing of mothering by four South African women artists whose projects conceptualise maternal subjectivity through the bodily and psychological experiences of pregnancy, birth and mothering. The principle thesis of my research is that the selected artists’ engagement with maternal subjectivity can be addressed through an exploration of the maternal body’s ability to disrupt conventional experiences of time. Presenting an alternative discourse of maternal embodiment, the artworks offer ways to consider how rethinking maternity might reformulate our experience and thinking about lived time as that which is dynamic, relational and, at times, conflicting, revealing the intrinsic intra-activity of being. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie ondersoek ek die visuele versinnebeelding van moederskap deur vier Suid-Afrikaanse vrouekunstenaars wie se projekte moedersubjektiwiteit konseptualiseer deur die liggaamlike en psigologiese ervarings van swangerskap, geboorte en moederskap. Die kernargument van my navorsing is dat die geselekteerde kunstenaars se betrokkenheid by moedersubjektiwiteit verstaan kan word deur 'n verkenning van die moederliggaam se vermoë om konvensionele ervarings van tyd te ontwrig. Die kunswerke bied 'n alternatiewe diskoers van moederlike beliggaming aan wat tot ‘n herbesinning van moederskap spreek in terme van ons ervaring van en denke rondom geleefde tyd as iets wat dinamies, relasioneel en soms teenstrydig kan wees. Sodoende spreek hierdie studie tot moederskap as ‘n bewuswording van die intrinsieke intra-aktiwiteit van wees. Stellenbosch University Doctoral 2024-02-21T10:06:04Z 2024-04-26T10:20:03Z 2024-02-21T10:06:04Z 2024-04-26T10:20:03Z 2024-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/130238 en Stellenbosch University xiii, 298 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Mothers in art Visual art Women artists -- South Africa Motherhood -- Psychological aspects Mothers -- Psychology Pregnancy in art Childbirth -- Social aspects Motherhood and the arts UCTD Steyn, Christine Reconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artists |
| title | Reconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artists |
| title_full | Reconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artists |
| title_fullStr | Reconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artists |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artists |
| title_short | Reconfiguring motherhood: maternal temporality in the work of four South African visual artists |
| title_sort | reconfiguring motherhood maternal temporality in the work of four south african visual artists |
| topic | Mothers in art Visual art Women artists -- South Africa Motherhood -- Psychological aspects Mothers -- Psychology Pregnancy in art Childbirth -- Social aspects Motherhood and the arts UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/130238 |
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