• The 20th Century Artbook

    The 20th Century Artbook

    R200

    Following in the tradition of Phaidon’s The Art Book, this is an illustrated dictionary which presents in alphabetical order the work of 500 great artists from the 20th century. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a key work and a short text about the work of the artist.

  • The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality

    The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality

    R940

    The Art of Feminism charts the birth of the feminist aesthetic and its development over two centuries that have seen profound and fast-paced change in women’s lives across the globe. The book includes over 350 remarkable artworks, ranging from political posters and graphics to stunning and provocative pieces of painting, sculpture, textiles, craft, performance, digital and installation art.

  • The Art of Life in South Africa

    The Art of Life in South Africa

    R530
    Daniel Magaziner is associate professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977.

    ‘A richly suggestive and moving contribution to South African intellectual history.’ Achille Mbembe, author of Critique of Black Reason

    ‘This book is as important for students of global modernism as it is for scholars of South African art, history, and politics.’ Tamar Garb, author of Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography

     

  • The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites

    The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites

    R500

    This lavishly illustrated book concentrates more closely on the visual impact of Pre-Raphaelite art than any previous study.

  • The Big Picture - An Art-O-Biography

    The Big Picture – An Art-O-Biography

    R400

    The Big Picture is Natalie Knight’s an Art-O-Biography-part memoir, part art history -filled with beautiful art images, society photos of the time and the stories behind many of the pieces she sold.

  • The Big Screen :The Story of the Movies and What They Did to UsOut of stock

    The Big Screen :The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us

    R450

    The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen?smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous?as important as the images it carries.

  • The Ceramic Art of Robert Hodgins

    The Ceramic Art of Robert Hodgins

    R720

    In this title Retief van Wyk documents the ceramic works produced by Robert Hodgins with his assistance and the well researched essays explore the influences which form Hodgins’ art and the nature of the ceramic works.

  • The Dada Spirit

    The Dada Spirit

    R190

    Dada. This onomatopoeia suggesting a child’s babbling started one of the most important mutations in the history of art.

  • The Embarrassment of Riches

    The Embarrassment of Riches

    R350

    Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation’s mental state. He tells…

  • The Indiscipline of Painting

    The Indiscipline of Painting

    R500

    The Indiscipline of Painting, published to accompany an international group exhibition at Tate St Ives, explores how the history and legacy of modernist abstract painting continues to inspire painters and artists working today. Through a series of essays by leading critics and curators this beautifully illustrated book demonstrates how the language of abstract painting remains…

  • The Kasrils AffairOut of stock

    The Kasrils Affair

    R195

    In 2007, Minister Ronnie Kasrils, the highest-ranking Jew in South Africa’s post-apartheid government, launched a campaign against Israeli policy in the occupied territories.

  • The London Art Schools

    The London Art Schools

    Since 1960, progressive forces within art education have fired new impulses in the field of artistic production. As society at large embraced youth and popular culture, art-school students with international aspirations tore down class barriers, fused fashion with pop, and insisted that art was integral to social change.

  • The Mlungu in Africa: Art from the Colonial Period, 1840-1940Out of stock

    The Mlungu in Africa: Art from the Colonial Period, 1840-1940

    R400

    This work examines African art that engages with the presence of white people in the ‘contact zones’ and colonial states in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever

    The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever

    R270

    Conceived in parallel to Grayson Perry’s exhibition The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!, this catalogue brings together visual material and texts that expand on the themes raised in the show.

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  • The Pre-Raphaelites (Colour library series)

    The Pre-Raphaelites (Colour library series)


    The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood had a dynamic influence upon the Victorian era. The painters, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, fought against an increasing mechanized society to establish the artist as a creative individual, attempting to raise art from the triviality into which it had fallen.

  • The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - A Complete CatalogueOut of stock

    The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham – A Complete Catalogue

    The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham – A Complete Catalogue is the first book to provide a full account of the printmaking career of British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, with particular reference to the technical innovations she pioneered while working in association with master-printers.

    Wilhelmina Barns-Graham experimented with a variety of printmaking techniques, finally discovering her ideal means of expressions in screenprinting. Through partnerships with innovative printmakers, the artist experimented with new techniques and materials that allowed her to create prints which, in their intensity of colour and precision of design, have the quality almost of paintings.

    Based on new research, and drawing on information contained in her numerous diaries, The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham incorporates a complete illustrated catalogue of all her known work in etching, linocut, lithography, screenprinting and monotype, from 1946 to 2007. It considers her work in relation to that of other British artists, especially those connected with the St Ives school, and examines her prints in relation to her work in other media, in particular, her paintings. This book will prove an invaluable resource for museum curators, students of British art and twentieth-century abstraction, and all those seeking to learn more about this aspect of the career of one of Britain’s most important artists of the late twentieth-century.