Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life exhibition book
R450This lavishly illustrated paperback with exposed spine detail accompanies the first UK retrospective of Olafur Eliasson’s work.
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Pablo Picasso (Masters of Art)
R250What did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the Spanish artist’s brilliant career and his influence on twentieth-century art.
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Patti Smith :Simply a Concert
R600Rock legend Patti Smith is famed for her powerful onstage presence, depicted by many of photography’s own legends. Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits of the young poet/singer were instrumental in defining her groundbreaking persona in 1970s.
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Paul Gauguin – Artist of Myth and Dream
R800An exceptional monograph-catalogue revealing the innovative drive in Gauguin’s work. This catalogue offers a unique opportunity to view Gauguin’s entire artistic development from his early impressionist works to his final masterpieces painted on the Marquesas Islands where the artist went in search of an Arcadian kingdom “of ecstasy, peace and art, far from the typical European struggle for money”.
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Paul Klee: Selected By Genius
R230As an avant-garde artist of the twentieth century, painter Paul Klee’s work defies classification. What is indisputable, however, is its originality and brilliance. Taken from the artist’s most prolific years, 1917-1933, this book presents works that Klee never intended to sell. More than 100 colour plates reveal Klee’s chromatic genius and wide stylistic range. Along…
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British Artists: Paul Nash
R175As a painter, illustrator and critic, Paul Nash (1889-1946) was at the forefront of British art in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Tate British Artists Series: Paul Nash
A beautifully designed introduction to the life and work of Paul Nash, one of the leading artists of the 20th century. By exploring the full course of Nash’s eventful career, David Boyd Haycock takes you through how he produced some of the greatest paintings of the First and Second World Wars, and helped to establish the Surrealist movement in Britain.
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Peter Blake (Tate Modern Artist Series)
R150‘I am a tree, so to speak. The trunk is fairly straight and traditional. Where my art has left to go on different excursions there are branches like Pop Art, wood engraving and Ruralism… What I am working on now is in direct line with what preoccupied me years ago; the same fantasies.’-Peter Blake
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Peter Fischli David Weiss
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss are Swiss artists who first began working together in the late 1970s. Their sculpture, video and photographic works all generate a unique atmosphere of concentration and relaxed pleasure. The mood of their work ranges from the humorous – a pair of clay figures, for example, titled Mick Jagger and Brian Jones go home satisfied after composig ‘I Can’t Get No Satisfaction’ – to the banal – a photographic series devoted to Airports – and even the apparently invisible – their Untitled installation simulating, through minutely detailed polyurethane sculptures, an unfinished exhibition site. -
Peter Fraser
R500Peter Fraser has been at the forefront of contemporary photography since the early 1980s. Much of his work involves an almost obsessive focus on the stuff of the world, the matter and materials that he finds in the everyday.
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Philippe Parreno: The Hyundai Commission – Anywhen
R340Since Tate Modern opened in London in 2000, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, reaching an audience of millions. The way artists have interpreted this vast industrial space has revolutionized public perceptions of contemporary art in the 21st century. Philippe Parreno (b. 1964) is…
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Picasso
R170‘Lively, intelligent, free of cant and well written: a good introduction to a difficult subject’ The Burlington Magazine
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Picasso: Peace and Freedom
R500“Picasso: Peace and Freedom” is the first in-depth examination of Picasso as a politically and socially engaged artist, from the 1940s, when he defiantly remained in Paris during the Nazi occupation, throughout the subsequent Cold War period. Picasso was a member of, and a huge financial donor to, the Communist Party from 1944 until his death in 1973.
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Pipilotti Rist: Eyeball Massage
R450Pipilotti Rist (born 1962) burst onto the international art scene in the late 1980s with visually lush video and multimedia works that explore sexuality and media culture through playful and provocative remixes of fantasy and the everyday. Highly accomplished technically, Rist’s practice fuses sensual images, dazzling color, music and text to create mesmerizing installations.
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Poems and Drawings (Josef Albers)
R200A rare and beautiful book by a great artist, long unavailable, this new edition includes a new introduction and previously unpublished material by Albers.
