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Document Type

Master's Dissertation

Author

De Villiers, Katerina Lucya

URN

etd-08252009-101616

Document Title

Th JH Pierneef collection of the City Council of Pretoria housed in the Pretoria Art Museum

Degree

Master of Arts

Department

Historical and Heritage Studies

Supervisor

Advisor Name	Title
Prof A Duffey	Committee Chair

Keywords

indigenous arts of Southern Africa
folk art
Pretoria Art Museum collection

Date

1997-04-20

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

This study is based on the catalogue/checklist of Pierneef works in the Pretoria Art Museum collection. The artist’s life, social, political and artistic influences of the period, both local and international, may be deduced from works analysed and discussed.
The Arts and Crafts movement was a powerful influence affecting ideas on national identity, folk art and the vernacular from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards. A world-wide romantic nationalism stimulated a search for identity and exploitation of the indigenous.
It is argued that these trends may be identified in the artistic development of Pierneef who, through friends, wide reading and intensive study was alive to European developments but focused on the indigenous arts of Southern Africa. He was the first South African artist to recognize Busman art and that of the black peoples. They had a profound influence on his own development and the motifs of his art.

© 1997, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria

Please cite as follows:
De Villiers, KL 1997, The JH Pierneef collection of the City Council of Pretoria housed in the Pretoria Art Museum, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08252009-101616/ >
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