Jo Smail: The Past Is Present
R150exhibition catalogue for Jo Smail’s solo show at Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, USA, in 2017.
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Johannes Phokela, I like my neighbours
R250While Johannes Phokela’s work is, at first glance, an irreverent representation of Western art history, it is the cultural and political consumption of pictures that interests him most. He is a voracious consumer of imagery, drawing not only on the iconic works of the European Masters – Rubens, Van Dyck, Caravaggio – but also on newspapers, magazines and the Internet. His is an ambitious exploration of the import of received art history on the one hand and the seemingly endless proliferation of images in popular culture on the other.
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Johannesburg Biennale 1995
R250A catalogue of all works displayed at the Johannesburg Biennale of 1995. Please also be aware that the binding of the book is quite old and fragile.
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John Meyer – Conduct and Expectations
R150Published in 2008 by Brusberg Berlin, to accompany the exhibition of the same title. John Meyer is one of South Africa’s leading contemporary realists. Born in 1942, Meyer has put his indelible stamp on the genres of landscape, portraiture and narrative art. Meyer became a professional painter in 1972. Since then he has travelled extensively,…
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Justin Fox:The Life and Art of Francois Krige
R600Painter, book illustrator, graphic artist and son of a well-known family, Francois Krige was a reclusive man. Many of his paintings, beautiful and evocative, were discovered after his death and reproduced for the first time in this book.
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KACHOO BREAKFAST SET PLATE BOWL MUG
R200Bring the magic and charm of the wild to your table! From the enchanting series of Kachoo comes this gorgeous crockery set featuring the beloved paintings of artist Frans Groenewald. The perfect children’s gift for any occasion, this collection is guaranteed to delight any and all young Kachoo adventurers. Collect all 6 titles.
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Collecting Myself: This Personal & this Particular by Katherine Glenday
R300This was a survey exhibition of the ceramics made by Katherine Glenday since graduating with a degree in ceramics and fine art in the 1980s.
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Kay Hassan: Urbanation
R150This exhibition seeks to look at the disillusion which many Black South Africans face with the advent of democracy. “A disillusion which [we] are complacent about, especially those of us who are privileged… It is this complacency that Urbanation seeks to tear asunder, though be it in the most poetic of ways.”
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Kgalema Motlanthe – A Political Biography
R280Presenting a superb account of a man characterized by his reticence, this biography offers rare and thorough insight into the life of one of South Africa’s most powerful men: Kgalema Motlanthe. From Motlanthe’s ancestral family to his political awakenings as he discovered the African National Congress, this account traces Motlanthe’s political path to becoming the third president of the Republic of South Africa.
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Killing Karoline
R100Killing Karoline follows the journey of the baby girl (categorised as ‘white’ under South Africa’s race classification system) who is raised in a leafy, middle-class corner of the South of England by a white couple. It takes the reader through the formative years, a difficult adolescence and into adulthood, as Sara-Jayne (Karoline) seeks to discover who she is and where she came from.
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l’Afrique: A Tribute to Maria Stein-Lessing and Leopold Spiegel
R250l’Afrique: A Tribute to Maria Stein-Lessing and Leopold Spiegel celebrates the lives and work of two extraordinary personalities, Maria Stein-Lessing and Leopold Spiegel, who produced an important legacy in the field of African and South African art and artifacts.
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Letotoba
R140Letotoba is a collection of 33 new poems that focuses on different themes namely; spiritual, relationships (love), politics, youth (June 16), inspiration and motivation.
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Light on a Hill: Building The Constitutional Court of South Africa
R500The new Constitutional Court of South Africa was inaugurated in 2004, ten years after the demise of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections that brought the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela to power. The historic new building was the work of a team of young South African architects who had won the international competition for the design and building of the Court. Shortly after the opening of the Court, David Krut Publishing was approached to manage a competition for the design of a book on the architecture of this important building. The book design competition was won by Adele Prins of Flow Design and work on the book began in 2005.
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Liminal
R120This seventh collection from one of South African poetry’s underappreciated masters is possibly his best yet. Metatextual, meticulous and deeply steeped in sentiment, Liminal is an exquisite and at-times startling rumination on lives lived, loves loved and writings written.
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Love Child – Gcina Mhlophe
R100Love Child is a collection for the new millennium generation. It is valuable not just for the deeply-felt personal and political insights it has to offer, but for the accessible ease with which it manages to capture the seminal moments of black South African history in the preserving amber of the author’s personal recollection.
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Love, Crime and Johannesburg: A Musical
R250‘Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?’ asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian Love, Crime and Johannesburg, the story of Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane and the trouble he gets into in the new South Africa. Jimmy, a people’s poet involved in the struggle, is accused of robbing a bank. He passionately asserts his innocence, claiming to work for the ‘secret secret service’.
