Gauguin: Portraits
Original price was: R915.R460Current price is: R460.The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin’s portraits, revealing how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and exciting ways
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Gauguin: The Master, the Monster, the Myth
R1485Danish art historian and curator Flemming Friborg reveals the fascinating story of the artist’s life and times in and around the circle of Impressionists and Symbolists, as well as his travels in France, Denmark and Tahiti, by analyzing hitherto neglected material and themes.
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Georg Baselitz (Paperback)
R1000It is said of Georg Baselitz that, in his upside-down pictures, he expresses the misery of the human creature. In South Africa we are very aware of the misery in which the human creature was dumped, but we are also very aware of the triumph of good over evil, gained against all odds and in all adversity as we endeavor to salve and heal wounds of the past.
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Global Art (Art Essentials)
R250Packed with bold and illuminating illustrations, the book demonstrates the distinct but connected roles of global movements in creating cross-cultural dialogues in today’s art world. Journalist Jessica Lack provides historical context for each art movement, key cultural events, and interconnections, bringing to life the protagonists in each movement’s evolution.
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Great Women Artists
R1350Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume
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Greek and Roman Art (Art Essentials)
R250In Greek and Roman Art, classical art expert Susan Woodford illuminates the achievements of classical art and architecture in a concise, coherent breakdown of styles from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire. Intelligent, clear, and compelling, this indispensable guide gives readers all the information they need to approach ancient art with confidence.
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Out of stockHieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman: Catalogue Raisonné
Original price was: R3430.R1715Current price is: R1715.Compiled by members of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and published on the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch’s death, this is the definitive new catalogue of all of Bosch’s extant paintings and drawings.
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Out of stockHolland on paper – in the age of art nouveau
R750This beautifully illustrated book is the first in English to celebrate the Dutch contribution to Art Nouveau through a tour of over one hundred posters, decorative calendars, and illustrated books, as well as prints and drawings. With text by Clifford S. Ackley, one of the leading specialists on Dutch prints and drawings, Holland on Paper in the Age of Art Nouveau provides a fascinating and visually rewarding introduction to a rich and creative artistic era.
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Hopper
R250The scenes are marked by vivid color juxtapositions and stark, theatrical lighting, as well as by harshly contoured figures, who appear at once part of, and alien to, their surroundings. The ambiance throughout his repertoire is of an eerie disquiet, alienation, loneliness and psychological tension, although his rural or coastal scenes can offer a counterpoint of tranquility or optimism. This book presents key works from Hopper’s oeuvre to introduce a key player not only in American art history but also in the American psyche.
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Out of stockImpressionism: The Movement That Transformed Western Art
Original price was: R835.R420Current price is: R420.A comprehensive, accessible, and richly illustrated guide to impressionism—the perennially popular artistic movement that led to the radical renewal of Western art.
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Kathe Kollwitz: A Retrospective
R1375An extraordinary gathering of rare drawings, prints and sculptures focusing on themes of motherhood, grief and resistance.
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Leonardo 1452 – 1519: The Design of the World
Original price was: R1320.R660Current price is: R660.This volume represents a unique opportunity to admire and understand Leonardo’s extraordinary complexity as an artist, painter, and sketcher, and, in part, his work as a scientist and technologist.
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Leonardo, Frida and Others: The History of Art, 800 Years-100 Artists
R760This fresh and engaging, illustrated history of art explains the fundamentals every art lover needs while presenting the development of different schools and styles as one continuous, astonishing timeline— from Giotto to Leonardo, Frida to Banksy.
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Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
R900Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art provides a fascinating overview of this intriguing artist’s rich body of work. The author considers Carrington’s preoccupation with alchemy and the occult, and explores the influence of indigenous Mexican culture and beliefs on her production.
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Living with Leonardo
R310In an engaging personal narrative interwoven with historical research, Martin Kemp discusses a life spent immersed in the world of Leonardo, and his encounters with great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors, pseudo-historians and fantasists. He shares how he has grappled with swelling legions of ‘Leonardo loonies’, walked on the eggshells of vested interests in academia and museums, and fended off fusillades of non-Leonardos, sometimes more than one a week. Examining the greatest masterpieces, from the Last Supper to Salvator Mundi, through the expert’s eye, we learn first-hand of the thorny questions that surround attribution, the scientific analyses that support the experts’ interpretations, and the continuing importance of connoisseurship.
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Man Ray: Writings on Art (Hardback)
R570Man Ray (1890-1976), a pioneer of the Dada movement and a central protagonist of surrealism, is best known for his innovative photographs, but his writings are also remarkable expressions of his identity as an artist. The first extensive collection of Man Ray’s texts about art in English, Man Ray: Writings on Art illuminates the diverse ways in which the artist used words to express his aesthetic, philosophical and political ideas. Richly illustrated and drawing on a broad range of materials, including artists’ books, essays, interviews, letters and visual poems, this collection presents the artist’s most significant writings about art, many of them never previously published. Offering a long overdue vision of Man Ray as someone who used words both as a creative medium and as a means of articulating ideas about the nature and value of art, it provides a powerful insight for students and scholars of modern art, as well as for artists, photographers and all those who count themselves as Man Ray fans.
