Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit
R800The 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.
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Out of stockMonet/Rothko
Original price was: R1155.R600Current price is: R600.This book offers an unprecedented dialogue between the paintings of Monet and Rothko, two artists who explored the frontiers of abstraction. It explores the uncanny similarities between their works, painted almost half a century apart, as well as the significance of the differences between the master artists’ styles.
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Out of stockMy Brilliant Friend
R225My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists.
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Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud
R550Cleaning the studio made me feel special, downtrodden and loved for all the wrong reasons. The floor was marked with a brush and thinned paint to establish the position of any furniture that was in use, the painted hieroglyphics of no particular colour but indelible so that everything could be repositioned and put back between sittings, all the functional lines alive and purposeful like his handwriting.
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Ndidi Dike: Discomfort Zones
R700This monographic book gives an extensive overview of the artistic work of Ndidi Dike – one of Nigeria’s most dedicated and focused artists.
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Out of stockNew Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching
R1375A cornucopia of etchings by artists from Mona Hatoum to Wangechi Mutu―from the studio of the great American master printer
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New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting
R1090New 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.
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R90The media as the medium. The medium is the message. These two propositions—the second from Marshall McLuhan—define the principal axes on which South African artist Siemon Allen (born 1971, Durban, South Africa) articulates his archivally-driven yet self-reflexive practice.
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Nicole Eisenmann
R1170With 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.
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Nigerian Art: The Meneghelli Collection
Selected Pieces From the Meneghelli Private Collection
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Noé Sendas: Vanishing Acts
Original price was: R1155.R600Current price is: R600.A comprehensive edition of the artists work of the last ten years, with a special focus on the assemblage works namely the Crystal Girls series. Noé Sendas is a multidisciplinary creative mind working with photography, collage, video, sculpture. His very unique style creates a mystical aura in which one, the spectator, has the freedom to interpret.
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Norman Catherine
R950Foreword by David Bowie. Norman Catherine is considered to be at the forefront of South African contemporary art with his rough-edged comical and nightmarish forms rendered in brash cartoon colours; his idiosyncratic visions and his dark cynicism and exuberant humour.
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Nouvelles Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema
R620Celebrate the iconic female actors and filmmakers of the French New Wave with a compelling examination of their role as a vital part of cinema history, as well as their influence on attitudes and style in film and in society that endures to this day.
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Objects in Focus: Bronze Head From Ife (British Museum)
R90Part of the British Museum’s Objects in Focus series, this compact book offers a well illustrated guide to the crowned bronze head unearthed at Ife in Nigeria in 1938.
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Out of stockOh, To Be a Painter!
R300These formally inventive texts examine the connection between the literary writer and the visual artist and are innovative in their treatment of ideas about color and modern art as experienced in picture galleries.
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Olayinka: A Woman’s View: The Life of an African Artist
R600This comprehensive overview features various photos of the artist’s work and includes interviews and personal correspondence.
