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Article written for the dossier dedicated by the Portuguese Jornal de Letras to the writer Mário de Sá-Carneiro, on the 100th anniversary of his death (26 April 2016).
Dos exposiciones, que tuvieron lugar en un corto intervalo de tiempo, sirven como punto de partida para examinar la red de intercambios artístico-culturales entre la modernidad india y la vanguardia alemana a comienzos de los años veinte.... more
Decenterings and Regionalisms: An Intercrossed History of the Havana and Dakar Biennials This research intends to investigate the role of two strategic projects in the visual arts field – the biennials of Havana (1984) and Dakar... more
Portuguese modernist Almada Negreiros' interpretation and uses of Delaunay's simultaneous contrasts and futurism.
Franks, P.E. (1983) : South Africa’s place in the Information Revolution. Ellerines Home News, January, page 10.
Franks, P.E. (2014) The Crisis of the South African Public Service. Focus, The Journal of the Helen Suzman Foundation, Issue 74, November.
This is a book review of S. A. Mansbach, Modern Art in Eastern Europe, From the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); it originally appeared in: The Art Bulletin 82 no. 4 (2000): 781–85. A... more
Franks, P.E. (2004) Managing in a rural context: Notes from the frontier. Invited paper presented at Äfrocentric Management Approaches in South Africa. International Expert Meeting/Workshop jointly organized by the Department of... more
"The perspective in this paper is somewhat critical of the Western scientific approach to social problems. It is considered that this approach is especially inappropriate in the third world context of which South Africa is a part. The... more
Home is where the heart is : Perspectives of migrants and Commuters in South Africa By Peter E. Franks Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences Professor of Industrial and Organisational Psychology University of the North Republic of South... more
Link to the published version of this paper: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/cX9c6FgEddNGAg7eqeq9/full Avant-garde calligraphy, often mistaken for abstract painting by its contemporaries, is a rich and understudied field in postwar... more
This panel addresses the rapid radical modernization in Japanese “traditional arts” (geidō), which in their more conventional forms typically materialized and performed an idealized view of the Japanese past. Well-known examples of such... more
Franks, P.E (2000) Myth, The Tragic Flaw: Issues in South African Public Servicing. Paper presented at the International Conference on “Challenges to the Social Sciences in Africa in the Twenty First Century. Faculty of Social Sciences,... more
This chapter focuses on Clement Greenberg, the New York art world's foremost Jewish critic during the postwar period, for the purposes of bringing to the surface the unacknowledged role of Jewish and their negotiations of their place in... more
Franks, P.E (1988) : Favouritism: a dynamic process in organizational politics. South Africa Journal of Labour Relations 12 (1), pages 21 - 25. Franks, P.E (1987) : Favouritism : a dynamic process in organizational politics. Paper... more
Link to the published version of this paper: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/cX9c6FgEddNGAg7eqeq9/full This paper addresses ground-breaking experiments with materials and techniques by a new generation of postwar Japanese avant-garde... more
Paper presented at the seminar: Organizational Communication _A Top Priority. Heia Safari Ranch, 12 - 13 March, 1992 Published verbatim as: Franks, P.E (1992) : Organizational communication through effective environmental... more
Submission requested by the Premier of Limpopo Province, South Africa, the Honourable Sello Moloto at his advisory Committee Meeting in August 2007. Originally titled, "Notes Towards Dealing with the Lack of a Work Ethic in Limpopo and... more
Publicado em "almada nada — manual de leitura", Teatro Nacional de S. João, Porto, 2014. A partir de "Saltimbancos — Contrastes Simultâneos" de José de Almada Negreiros, analiso a actividade artística de Almada abordando alguns... more
Glass, H.G.L and Franks, P.E (1989) : The implications of migrant labour for the development of a post-modern South Africa. Paper presented to the XXIXth International Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Rome, Italy, 12... more
Franks, P.E. (2006) Managing in a rural context: Notes from the frontier. In H. van den Heuvel, M. Mangaliso and L van Bunt (Eds.) Prophecies and Protests. Ubuntu in Glocal Management. Amsterdam and Pretoria, Rozenberg and UNISA.
Franks, P.E (1994) : Migrants and Commuters : Fact File. Information Update, 4,4, pages 59 - 64.
European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, 6, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 439-456.
Em 1929 foi mostrado em Madrid um espectáculo de lanterna mágica concebido por José de Almada Negreiros para acompanhar a partitura de Salvador Bacarisse para voz e orquestra, e o libreto de Manuel Abril, com o título La Tragedia de Doña... more
Franks, P.E. (1988) Perception and Misconception in the Workplace: Towards a management beyond Baasskap. enviroscan, Institute of Personnel Management (IPM) Information Services Unit: Briefing Document #2, April. Based on an earlier... more
Paper presented to the Psychological Association of South Africa (PASA) Congress, Elangeni Hotel, Durban, 18 - 20 September 1989.
Project Proposal Presented to the Northern (Limpopo) Province Government