Jenni Lauwrens

BA (ED) Fine Arts (UP); BA (Hons) (Art History) (UP); MA (Visual Studies) (UP); PhD (Art History and Image Studies) (UFS)

Tel: +27 12 420 4164
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Dr Jenni Lauwrens teaches Visual Culture Studies in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria. Her research interests include the disciplinary complexities wrought by the relationship between Art History and visual culture with a particular interest in how this relationship affects art education practice. In her most recent research activities Lauwrens investigates the multisensoriality of aesthetic encounters and body-centered approaches to image analysis particularly as they apply to understanding South African ecological art.

Research highlights

Lauwrens, J. 2018. More than meets the eye: embodied engagement in After The Last Supper. Art Journal. 77(2): 8-23.

Lauwrens, J. 2018. Trust your gut: Fleshing out an embodied encounter with Nicola Grobler’s The Visitor Centre. Critical Arts 32(2):83-99.
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Du Plessis, K & Lauwrens, J. 2016. When boys turn into women: a critical reading of postfeminist masculinity in The last of us. Image & Text 27:7-27.

Mans, H & Lauwrens, J. 2013. Christian-Afrikaans women under construction: an analysis of gender ideology in Finesse and Lééf. Image & Text 22:45-64.

Lauwrens, J. 2012. Welcome to the revolution: the sensory turn and art history. Journal of Art Historiography 7:1-17.

Lauwrens, J. 2012. Can you see what I mean? An exploration of the limits of vision in anti-ocularcentric contemporary art. De Arte 85:26-41.

Lauwrens, J. 2010/2011. Disciplining images in visual culture studies: Plotting a course. Scope. Contemporary Research Topics (Art & Design) 5&6:24-33.

Lauwrens, J. 2008. Sightseeing in art and visual culture. Image & Text 14:18-28.

Lauwrens, J. 2005. Do good fences make good neighbours? Reviewing disciplinary borders in art history and visual culture studies. De Arte 72:49-57.

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