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Crafting the obscure: harnessing art jewellery as a tool for erotic expression
Thesis MA (VA) --Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| author | Van der Merwe, Cornelia Maria |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132373 Crafting the obscure: harnessing art jewellery as a tool for erotic expression Van der Merwe, Cornelia Maria Terreblanche, Carine Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. Erotic art Decorative arts Jewelry making Sex in art Body art Art, Modern -- Themes, motives Identity (Philosophical concept) -- In art Art -- Social aspects UCTD Thesis MA (VA) --Stellenbosch University, 2025. Van der Merwe, C. M. 2025. Crafting the Obscure: Harnessing Art Jewellery as a Tool for Erotic Expression. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/d38a6419-d8f6-4525-bfc1-057ec49e7094 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study offers an exploration of eroticism through the medium of art jewellery. Central to the thesis lies the premise that both eroticism and jewellery are deeply subjective. Art jewellery pushes the boundaries of conformity by breaking away from the traditional expectations of jewellery by reflecting on the medium’s history, notions of value and placement on the body. As this study holds, art jewellery allows for the representation of individuality, be it on the part of the artist or the wearer. Practice-based research and autoethnography are utilised to reflect on my personal experiences with eroticism. The body is a critical component of this study, especially as it is marked and read at the hand of jewellery and erotic interventions. As the vessel through which an individual experiences the world, the body is key to understanding erotic experiences. I argue that eroticism cannot be visualised without the presence of the body, even as an imagined participant. In my practical work, I engage with my body as a site of research and erotic knowledge. I replicate and reveal parts of my body that are generally obscured from view, thereby turning the objects into a metaphor of eroticism as something that blurs the boundaries between private and public. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie bied ʼn verkenning van erotiek deur die medium van kunsjuweliersware. Aan die kern van die tesis lê die veronderstelling dat beide die erotiek en juweliersware diepliggend subjektief is. Kunsjuweliersware toets die grense van konformiteit deur weg te breek van die tradisionele verwagtinge van juweliersware en te besin oor die medium se geskiedenis, idees oor waarde en plasing op die liggaam. Soos hierdie studie aanvoer, maak kunsjuweliersware voorsiening vir die uitbeelding van individualiteit, hetsy aan die kant van die kunstenaar of die draer daarvan. Praktykgebaseerde navorsing en outo-etnografie word aangewend om oor my persoonlike ervarings van erotiek te besin. Die liggaam is ʼn noodsaaklike komponent van hierdie studie, in die besonder hoe dit aan die hand van juweliersware en erotiese ingrypings raakgesien en gelees word. As die houer waardeur ʼn individu die wêreld ervaar, is die liggaam die sleutel tot die begrip van erotiese ervarings. Ek voer aan dat erotiek nie sonder die teenwoordigheid van die liggaam, selfs as ʼn verbeelde deelnemer, gevisualiseer kan word nie. In my praktiese werk gaan ek met my liggaam om as die perseel van navorsing en erotiese kennis. Ek repliseer en onthul dele van my liggaam wat gewoonlik nie sigbaar is nie, en omskep daardeur die voorwerpe tot ʼn metafoor van erotiek as iets wat die grense tussen die private en die openbare verdof. Masters 2025-06-05T08:11:32Z 2025-06-05T08:11:32Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132373 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 117 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Erotic art Decorative arts Jewelry making Sex in art Body art Art, Modern -- Themes, motives Identity (Philosophical concept) -- In art Art -- Social aspects UCTD Van der Merwe, Cornelia Maria Crafting the obscure: harnessing art jewellery as a tool for erotic expression |
| title | Crafting the obscure: harnessing art jewellery as a tool for erotic expression |
| title_full | Crafting the obscure: harnessing art jewellery as a tool for erotic expression |
| title_fullStr | Crafting the obscure: harnessing art jewellery as a tool for erotic expression |
| title_full_unstemmed | Crafting the obscure: harnessing art jewellery as a tool for erotic expression |
| title_short | Crafting the obscure: harnessing art jewellery as a tool for erotic expression |
| title_sort | crafting the obscure harnessing art jewellery as a tool for erotic expression |
| topic | Erotic art Decorative arts Jewelry making Sex in art Body art Art, Modern -- Themes, motives Identity (Philosophical concept) -- In art Art -- Social aspects UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132373 |
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