Caroline van der Merwe
R250“I think an artist must be a master of his craft, he must know it so well, he must not have to worry about the craft side of his work, and is free t express his sensations, ideas or emotions.” – Caroline van der Merwe
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Out of stockCecil Higgs – Close Up
R250Cecil Higgs: Close Up is a revealing and intimate biography of one of South Africa’s most respected painters. It is a warm and human, yet at the same time candid, portrait of Cecil Higgs, the private person and the public painter.
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Out of stockCedric Nunn – Call and Response
R350This publication features his photographs from the late seventies to the present day, allowing insight into a previously unknown African world. His aesthetically and compositionally unusual photographs combine reality with poetry.
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Claudette Schreuders: Great Expectations
R200The figure of a white horse embodies the fantasy of romance, locating the cast of characters within the space of fiction. It is here that children’s projections of their adult selves play out their imaginary lives – in ‘the realms of the unreal’, as the outsider artist Henry Darger termed it. In the sculpture that lends its title to the group, a girl lies on her bed, daydreaming; another gathers up her long hair, echoing the self-absorbed reverie of Balthus’ 1955 Nude before a Mirror. Other characters include Loved Ones, a girl with bare breasts; a pair of best friends/rivals; the bust of a young boy; Song; and a lovebird on its perch.
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Closer Than That
R100Gail Dendy’s new collection, Closer Than That, is full of delicate observations about the human condition, as are many anthologies, but these poems are crafted with the utmost skill and imbued with the musical soul of a dancer.
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Colbert Mashile – Kgwe-Kgwe Exhibition Catalogue
R250In 1972 Colbert Mashile was born in Bushbackridge, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. After his schooling, his intention was to build a career in Public Administration. Fortunately, during his studies in Pretoria, he developed a healthy fascination with art. This led him to abandon a dreary future in administration and find refuge at the Johannesburg Art…
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Out of stockCompendium of Taxi Art Books Educational Supplements
R280This Compendium brings together all thirteen supplements from the TAXI Art Books series on contemporary South African artists. Each chapter contains an introduction to the artist, worksheets and conceptual and practical projects, fact files, glossaries and bibliography. Learners and teachers are encouraged to draw on thier own resources of imagination and experience and, through discussion, collaboration and reflection, understand the artist’s work and try a variety of art-making exercises. The Compendium includes valuable material on how to conduct research, write art essays, avoid plagiarism, keep a visual diary and do art presentations.
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Conrad Botes: Cain and Abel
R80Conrad Botes’ exhibition, titled ‘Cain and Abel’, is a reflection on the origins of violence, a return to the very first tale of murder as related in the Bible and Qu’ran, as if to grapple with the notion of aggression itself. The story was translated into a gritty black and white comic published in Bitterkomix…
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Constructure: 100 years of the JAG building and its evolution of space and meaning
R700100 years of the JAG building and its evolution of space and meaning: Setting out to tell the story of a building that has stood for a hundred years is a complex undertaking, as ultimately that narrative does not exist in the singular.
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Out of stockContact Zones # 8 – Invisible
R200Invisible is a Kenyan story made up of many tales. Although the issue of sexual orientation and gender identity is a very controversial topic in Kenya, the queer community has recently struggled to make itself more visible.
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Conversations with my Sons and Daughters
R180Where did we lose our idealism and why and at what cost?
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Courting Justice – A DVD on the Constitutional Court
R300From apartheid to democracy. What is essential for transformation to succeed?
South Africa’s answer: a constitution acclaimed for its promise of comprehensive human rights, an independent judiciary to guard those rights, and a judiciary, transformed by race and gender, able to render justice and claim a lost legitimacy.
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Out of stockCraft South Africa
R265Craft South Africa is a celebration of South Africa’s extraordinary wealth of handmade objects and the people who craft them. From elegant traditional water-storage pots made in rural areas to sophisticated silver jewellery fashioned in urban studios, from headdresses that have adorned Zulu maidens for over a century to contemporary tapestries that explore new materials…
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Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture
R150Critical Interventions is a peer-reviewed journal of advanced research and writing on African art history and visual culture. Our mission is to provide a forum for cutting-edge scholarship in African art history and for sustained analysis of issues of urgent concern for the discipline that foregrounds both the history of Africa’s modernity and the historiography of African Art History.
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Cyril Ramaphosa : The Road To Presidential Power
R330This fully revised and extended edition charts Ramaphosas early life and education, and his career in trade unionism, politics and constitution-building. Extensive new chapters explore his contribution to the National Planning Commission, the effects of the Marikana massacre on his political prospects and the real story behind his rise to the deputy presidency of the country in 2014. They set out the constraints Ramaphosa faced as Jacob Zumas deputy, and explain how he ultimately triumphed in the election of the ANCs new president in 2017. The book concludes with an analysis of the challenges Ramaphosa faces as the countrys fifth post-apartheid president. This commanding biography tells the full story of this enigmatic leaders life and political career for the first time. It is based on numerous personal conversations with Ramaphosa over the past decade, and on rich interviews with many of the subjects friends and contemporaries.
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Cyril’s Choices: Lessons from 25 Years of Freedom in South Africa
R290President Cyril Ramaphosa, Nelson Mandela’s preferred successor, faces new problems and new choices since he won his own electoral mandate in May 2019. In the next five years, South Africa will be changed radically by the climate crisis, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, economic stagnation and political unrest among some of its southern African neighbours, and the rising African influence of Russia and China while the West is distracted by the insurgent populism of US President Donald Trump and Brexit.
