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  • Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa

    R150

    An essential guide to this important aspect of South African art, this book provides a comprehensive overview of printmaking in South Africa, replacing the now outdated monograph by F. L. Alexander.

  • Re/discovery and Memory

    R600

    Design and layout of a major book accompanying the inaugural exhibition at Norval Foundation, Re/discovery and Memory: The works of Sydney Kumalo, Ezrom Legae, Serge Alain Nitegeka and Edoardo Villa, curated by Karel Nel, 28 April – 10 September 2018.

    Retrospectives of the work of both Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae were shown alongside an exhibition of their friend and colleague Edoardo Villa, while Serge Alain Nitegeka was commissioned to create an immersive installation in the atrium.

  • Recognition: An Anthology of Short Stories

    R280

    This anthology includes a generous and detailed introduction, written by David Medalie. It traces the motif of recognition, discusses the general characteristics of short stories and the narrative devices used by writers, and includes a brief analysis of each short story.
    Recognition will appeal to teachers and students of literature. It will be enjoyed by all those who love short stories and appreciate the craftsmanship involved in telling a memorable tale.

  • Robin Rhode – Who Saw Who

    R250

    Robin Rhode’s art uses the barest of means to comment on urban poverty, the politics of leisure and the commodification of youth culture. The artist has a reputation for brilliantly inventive performances, photography and video animation in which drawing plays a crucial role. In his works, which are often created on the street, Rhode interacts…

  • Robin Rhode: Paper Planes

    R280

    Paper Planes is a story of two children staring up a wall on which graffiti planes are animated as if drawing them in their heads. Working predominantly with everyday material like charcoal, chalk and paint, Rhode started out creating performances that are based on his own drawings of objects that he interacts with. He expanded…

  • Robin Rhode: Parabolic Bike

    R340

    Robin Rhode’s Parabolic Bike follows a child as she tries to ride her bike across an ever-changing curved line. To make the video, Rhode staged aerial photographs from the roof of his mother’s house in Johannesburg, South Africa then sequenced the images to create a stop-motion digital animation. The whimsical narrative depicts the young girl…

  • Roelof Louw – Flag Works

    R250

    Artist’s Monograph

     

  • Roma, Citta Di Mezzo

    Images of Rome, focusing on the architecture, with few people in the photos. Leporello bound, so the book folds out into one long photo display. Unpaginated, color throughout.

  • Six Drawing Lessons – The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

    R650

    Incorporating elements of graphic design and ranging freely from discussions of Plato’s cave to the Enlightenment’s role in colonial oppression to the depiction of animals in art, Six Drawing Lessons is an illustration in print of its own thesis of how art creates knowledge.

  • Stephen Inggs – 665: Making Prints with Light(Softback)

    R400

    665: Making Prints with Light constitutes a catalogue raisonne of photographic and print work by Cape Town artist, Stephen Inggs. Different bodies of work between 1978 and 2011 are presented in chapters, designed by Gart Walker and with essays by Virginia MacKenny and Sean O’Toole, a foreword by Nigel Warburton and introduction by Stephen Inggs….

  • TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: David Koloane

    R50

    David Koloane was born in 1938 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. He studied art at the Bill Ainslie Studios in Johannesburg and later completed a Diploma in Museum Studies at the University of London. Koloane established a reputation, both locally and internationally, as a pioneer black artist in apartheid South Africa and was the founding member of institutions promoting and supporting black talent in South Africa from the mid-1970s.

  • TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Deborah Bell

    R50

    Deborah Bell is a leading Johannesburg painter and sculptor and whose work is created in dialogue with multiple worlds, texts, histories and consciousnesses. She is also widely known for her collaborative projects with William Kentridge and Robert Hodgins. Bell’s drawings, etchings and monumental clay sculptures possess a kind of mystical godliness which comes from deep within her.

  • TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Noria Mabasa

    R50

    Noria Muelelwa Mabasa was born in 1938 in Xigalo, a village in Limpopo Province, north of Johannesburg. She is a sculptor of large woodcarvings and figurative ceramic work who first came to prominence in the urban art scene in the mid 1980s.

  • TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Paul Stopforth

    R50

    Paul Stopforth produced several bodies of work that were startling in their courageous engagement with the repressive society in which he lived. The importance of Stopforth’s work is that he is an acute observer of the minutiae of everyday life and keenly attuned to the significance of ordinary objects, which he imbues with dignity and careful metaphorical significance.

  • TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Samson Mudzunga

    R50

    Samson Mudzunga was born in 1938 in Shanzha, Dopeni, in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda “homeland”. Although Mudzunga began playing with clay as a child, it wasn’t until much later in life that he became a self-sustaining artist, acclaimed for his performance events and for his extraordinary wood carvings, particularly his enormous “coffin drums”.

  • TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Sandile Zulu

    R50

    This Educational Supplement is published with TAXI-012 Sandile Zulu by Colin Richards. Sandile Zulu’s work incorporates and gives expression to a many layered mythology in which fire, transformation, planetary cycles, and natural rhythms are key elements. Zulu uses found objects that he scavenges from industrial sites and from nature, but the distinctive scorch-marks and burnt edges of his work testify to the centrality of fire in his method and his aesthetic philosophy.