Fighting History
R260Fighting History is the first book to engage with the story of British history painting and its survival into contemporary practice today
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Footnotes For The Panther – William Kentridge
R1000In June of 2010, William Kentridge asked Denis Hirson to join him in a public conversation at the opening of Cinq Thèmes, the artist’s retrospective exhibition at the Jeu du Paume in Paris. So fruitful was this event that the two decided to have further conversations, public and private, whenever the time and the occasion seemed right. Nine engagements followed, allowing them to explore at great length the many issues and themes arising from Kentridge’s work.
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Frida Kahlo: I Paint my Reality
R180This book traces the extraordinary life of an artist whose unforgettable imagery combined cruelty and wit, honesty and insolence, pain and empowerment.
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Out of stockG: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film: 1923-1926
R350The journal “G,” launched at the suggestion of the founder of the De Stijl movement, Theo van Doesburg, and produced by the artist and filmmaker, Hans Richter, was published in Berlin between 1923 and 1926, when the city was an epicentre of the European avant-gardes. Drawing together painting, sculpture, photography, film, architecture, engineering, industrial design, poetry, fashion, and urbanism, it sought to counter conservative forces that would restrict the development of a new and vital culture.
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Gary Stephens: The Ankara Portraits
R250Exhibition Catalogue accompanying the exhibition, Ankara Portraits by American artist Gary Stephens is a compilation of works over a period of four years, which portrays a theme that could be described as an open African style featuring recent paintings completed on Ankara fabrics.
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Out of stockGaudi Pop-Ups
R440Specially created pop-ups explore the vision and creations of this seminal architect.
“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.” ?Antoni Gaudí
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Gauguin
R115Nancy Ireson is the Schroder Foundation Curator of Painting at the Courtauld Gallery, and specialises in French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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George Lois: On His Creation of the Big Idea
R600George Lois is advertising s most famous art director. He founded the creative revolution that spawned modern advertising, as his iconoclastic talent created icons dramatizing the problems, solutions, foibles, and promises of American life.
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Gerard de Leeuw (1912-1985): A Centenary Exhibition
R150“Gerard de Leeuw believed he could make rain. Or, to be more precise, he believed that the bronze smelting that he practised from his suburban foundry in Orange Grove, Johannesburg, had the unintended but inevitable effect of producing rain, regardless of the season.” So writes Federicho Freschi, formerly senior lecturer in the Department of History…
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Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures
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Gilbert and George are the pre-eminent artists of their generation. Exhibited worldwide since the early 1970s, their art has attracted both enormous acclaim and fierce controversy. At last, on the eve of a massive retrospective that will tour six venues across the globe, a book is published that does justice to the scale, depth and ambition of their artitic achievement. -
Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian
R600“Grand Scale” brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size prints – a Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record.
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Gwen John (Tate British Artist Series)
R200Gwen John (1876–1939) was an artist with a singular vision, one whose intense gaze produced some of the most beguiling and atmospheric paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Illusion Confusion: The Wonderful World of Optical Deception
R400This comprehensive survey of optical illusions includes an astonishing range of images from ancient times to the present.
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Out of stockImbali Artbooks: Adventuring into Art
R1500Through these books, young people will discover this world of art by looking, thinking and discussing, by making and doing, by exploring different materials, and by expressing visual ideas of their own. The Imbali Artbooks consist of a box set of eight books. The series is structured around a number of themes and each chapter raises interwoven topics, issues and ideas that are engaging and relevant to young people in the 21st century.
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In My View: Personal Reflections On Art By Today’s Leading Artists
R300In My View is a collection of reflections by 78 contemporary artists in which each artist reveals the influence and inspiration he or she has found in a particular artwork or artist. Among the artists are John Baldessari, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close, Michael Craig-Martin, Tacita Dean, Marlene Dumas, Antony Gormley, Susan Hiller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Candida Höfer, Vik Muniz, Jorge Pardo, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Bill Viola and Rachel Whiteread. The stories show the profound connections that exist between artists past and present and offer an alternative look at art history from the 15th century to the 1960s, through the eyes of contemporary artists themselves. Simon Grant’s introduction identifies themes that emerge and contextualizes the history and practice of artists looking back at the work of others.
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Out of stockInformal Beauty: The Photographs of Paul Nash
R340Paul Nash is widely regarded as one of the most significant British artists of the 20th century. Best known for his evocative paintings of war-ravaged landscapes and his quasi-Surrealist visions of the English countryside, Nash was also a consummate photographer, who believed that the camera could reveal aspects of the world that the painter could not.
