Michaelis School of Fine Art
Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa
Abstract
dc:description.abstractMedia and communications analyst, Roger Silverstone (1997) brings our attention to the negative elements of the suburban landscape, a space more often associated with the comfortable life – one filled with luscious garden lawns, large crystal blue swimming pools, double garages and domestic workers' quarters. That this domestic space has ‘protected' itself from the stress of the city through the use of high walls, electric fences and wrought iron gates, is an irony worth commenting on. As Silverstone notes, this constructed paradise is not without its complications.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor
- Michaelis School of Fine Art
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2017
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Lilford, Kirsten Lee
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- MacKenny, Virginia
- Lamprecht, Andrew
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39241
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/39241