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  • Michelangelo

    R250

    Central to all of Michelangelo’s artistic endeavors were his drawings, in which his creative ideas originated, evolved, and were perfected. This handsome book takes a fascinating tour of the artist’s drawings by looking at highlights––ranging from unfinished sketches to delicate, refined studies––all of which are located in the exceptional collection of the British Museum. Included are studies of some of Michelangelo’s most famous works such as the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the Last Judgement.

  • Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit

    R800

    The first properly posthumous retrospective on the artist, this paperback exhibition book highlights the significance of Mike Kelley’s influential four-decade career on the development of art since the 1970s.

  • Ndidi Dike: Discomfort Zones

    R700

    This monographic book gives an extensive overview of the artistic work of Ndidi Dike – one of Nigeria’s most dedicated and focused artists.

  • New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting

    R1090

    New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art.

  • Nicole Eisenmann

    R1170

    With a body of work that explores a broad spectrum of subjects—from lesbianism and feminism to contemporary politics and the natural world—Nicole Eisenman (b.1965) challenges convention and encourages viewers to construe meanings from images that demand interrogation and debate. Illustrating paintings spanning the early 1990s to the present day, Dan Cameron unpacks the complexities of Eisenman’s oeuvre via thematic chapters that address key ideas which emerge when drawing specific works together. As such, this first major account of Eisenman’s painting career presents a clear analysis of the primary motivators that have fuelled the imagination of one of the most interesting and original contemporary artists working today.

  • Olayinka: A Woman’s View: The Life of an African Artist

    R600

    This comprehensive overview features various photos of the artist’s work and includes interviews and personal correspondence.

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    On Being An Artist

    Original price was: R495.Current price is: R250.

    Few living artists can claim to have had the influence of Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941). Celebrated globally for his distinctive art, with numerous retrospectives and honors to his name, he has helped nurture generations of younger artists. In On Being an Artist, now published in paperback, Craig-Martin reflects with wit and candor on the people, ideas and events that have shaped his professional life.

  • Painting then for now. fragments of Tiepolo at the Ca’ Dolfin

    R600

    Painting Then For Now is a collaboration between an art historian, a painter and a photographer who are rediscovering the modernism in Giambattista Tiepolo’s work.

  • Patterns (Hardback)

    R650

    ‘Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But ‘reduce’ is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications. I can’t verbalize what I am working on: to me, it is many-layered by definition; it is what is more important, what is more true’ – Gerhard Richter

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    Paul Gauguin (Great Masters in Art)

    Original price was: R330.Current price is: R165.

    This book brings together beautiful reproductions of Gauguin’s most famous works with the story of his life, excerpts from his letters and diaries, and an introduction setting his work in context.

  • Picasso: The Women In His Life. An Homage

    R850

    An exploration of the lives and work of Picasso’s muses from the whole of their lives.

  • Planet Banksy : The man, his work and the movement he inspired

    R225

    Highlighting both the relevance of Banksy’s street art and how his impact has continued to spread, Planet Banksy brings together some of the very best pieces of art from all corners of the world that have been inspired by Banksy, as well as featuring some of his own innovative, profound and controversial work. ‘A thought-provoking…

  • Playing It Forward

    This a collection of German expressionist prints that lead from the late 19th century to the early 2000s. The works were comprised from the exhibition held at the Faulconer Gallery in January 23––March 15,  2015.

     

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    Portia Zvavahera

    R1400

    Surveying work made from 2017 up to Zvavahera’s contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2022, this book features a new essay by curator Meredith Brown and an interview with the artist by writer Allie Biswas, alongside gorgeous reproductions of 24 paintings, including up-close details and installation views.

  • Pre-Raphaelite: Painting and Techniques

    R400

    A book examining the Pre-Raphaelite Painting techniques and innovations that produced a revolution in Art.

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    Quentin Blake

    R330

    Quentin Blake is a collaboration between Tate and London ‘s new House of Illustration, published to coincide with the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Inside Stories, a landmark show by Quentin Blake. Joanna Carey’s essay is a brilliant survey of Blake’s oeuvre, at once intimate, perceptive and illuminating, and written with an exuberance matching that of her subject.