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  • A is for Artist

    R150

    A colorful contemporary ABC book created by award-winning English designer Ella Doran especially for Tate. A is for Artist takes a creative, innovative approach to the ABC’s. Kids will love learning the ABC’s and in the process, they’ll learn about themselves. Bringing out the artist in each child, this visually entertaining book is fun for…

  • A lasting Impression: The Robert Hodgins Print Archive

    R350

    A Lasting Impression: The Robert Hodgins print Archive is a 284 page lavishly illustrated full-colour catalogue that accompanied the exhibition at Wits Art Museum in 2013. In 2007, Robert Hodgins donated his archive of almost 400 prints to the museum. The catalogue documents the entire collection and includes incisive and illuminating essays by leading thinkers…

  • A Month in Siena

    R225

    Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly the great paintings of the Sienese School.

    They became a refuge and a way to think about the world outside the urgencies of the present. A quarter of a century later, having found no trace of his father, Matar finally visits the birthplace of those paintings. A Month in Siena is the encounter between the writer and the city.

  • BibliOdyssey

    R240

    BibliOdyssey’s mission has been to search the dustier corners of the
    internet and retrieve these materials for our enjoyment. Thanks to the
    efforts of this singular weblog, a myriad of long-forgotten imagery has
    now resurfaced.

  • Deborah Bell: Dreams of Immortality

    R150

    An exhibition catalogue, by Everard Read Johannesburg,  of the captivating work of Deborah Bell’s Dreams of Immortality (2015).

  • Jackson Hlungwani

    R1500

    Hlungwani’s body of sculpture articulates his spiritual journey, his insights, and his world in three-dimensional form aiding him in his life’s mission as orator, teacher, healer, and visionary. The sculptures are evidence not only of a remarkable sustained artistic endeavour, but are also, by nature, sculptures that teach. Hlungwani created specific works for the two altars on the hilltop site that he called ‘New Jerusalem.’ These sculptures – as well as many others – expressed his immanent relationship with God, Christ and the Archangels Gabriel and Michael. His numinous world was then directed to his community in his teachings, and beyond, as he freely shared his vision of a new world order.

  • Norman Catherine

    R950

    Foreword by David Bowie. Norman Catherine is considered to be at the forefront of South African contemporary art with his rough-edged comical and nightmarish forms rendered in brash cartoon colours; his idiosyncratic visions and his dark cynicism and exuberant humour.

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    Prints and their makers (Hardback)

    R950

    Prints and Their Makers takes you behind the scenes to witness the creative process at the world’s top printmaking workshops. Master printer Phil Sanders offers an in-depth look at this versatile medium and places contemporary prints and practices in the context of traditions and techniques developed over more than a thousand years.

  • Sankofa Mode – Hidden Gems

    R260

    The greatest form of wisdom lives inside us and Journaling is an amazing way to tap into our own brilliance. We colour-in, expressing our unique creativity and allow our minds to reflect & relax. The Sankofa Mode Hidden Gems book is the coming together of 3 beautiful and empowering elements; Colouring-in, Journaling & the wisdom of Proverbs from various tribes across Africa.

    Containing colouring artworks designed by the legendary veteran illustrator Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi (born 1954) from South Africa, these detailed line artworks bring together tribal aesthetics from all over our ‘Colourful continent’. By colouring-in the artworks you get to collaborate with an esteemed African Artist and engage with a broad range of African Cultural Aesthetics.

  • Ten Years of Collecting

    R185

    Ten Years of Collecting (1979-1989), David Hammond-Tooke and Anitra Nettleton, softcover, published by the University of the Witwatersrand, 1989, tearing, creasing and wear to cover, shelf wear.

  • Terence Donovan Fashion

    R900

    Terence Donovan was one of the foremost photographers of his generation – among the greatest Britain has ever produced. He came to prominence in London as part of a postwar renaissance in art, fashion, graphic design and photography. Alongside David Bailey and Brian Duffy, photographers of a similar working-class background and outlook, Donovan was a new force in fashion photography. Together, they captured and helped create the Swinging 60s. They socialized with celebrities and royalty, and found themselves elevated to stardom in their own right. Gifted with an unerring eye for the iconic image, Donovan was also master of his craft, a technical genius who pushed the limits of what was possible with a camera. And yet despite his fame and status, there has never been a publication devoted to his fashion work, for he allowed none to be released during his lifetime. Terence Donovan Fashion is thus the first time his fashion pictures have been collected together in book form. Arranged chronologically, from the gritty monochromatic 1960s and 1970s to the vibrant and colourful 1980s and 1990s, the book reveals how his constant invention and experimentation not only set him apart from his contemporaries, but also influenced generations to come. Contributions from some of the many designers, models and art directors who worked with him provide fascinating insights into his practice. Compiled by the artist’s widow Diana Donovan and former art director of Nova magazine and Pentagram partner David Hillman, who worked closely with Donovan for over a decade, and including an illuminating text by Robin Muir, ex-picture editor of Vogue, and foreword by Grace Coddington, creative director of American Vogue and advisor to the project, Terence Donovan Fashion is indisputably a landmark in the history of fashion photography.

  • The Nose

    R3000

    This publication is devoted to William Kentridge’s (born 1955) multimedia cycle The Nose (based on Gogol’s short story of the same name), comprised of the video installation “I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine,” plus sculptures, tapestries and works on paper. Kentridge describes this cycle as an elegy for the artistic language of the Russian Constructivists.

  • The Printmaker

    R300

    When a reclusive printmaker dies, his friend inherits the thousands of etchings and drawings he has stored in his house over the years. Overwhelmed by the task of sorting and exhibiting this work, she seeks the advice of a curator.

     

  • The Sankofa Colouring Journal

    R220

    The Sankofa Colouring Journal is the coming together of empowering elements; Colouring-in, Journaling & the wisdom of Proverbs
    from various tribes across Africa, incorporating 20 unique Colouring artworks have been lovingly designed by the legendary veteran illustrator Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi (born 1954) from South Africa. These detailed line artworks bring together tribal aesthetics from all over our ‘Colourful continent’. By colouring-in the artworks you get to collaborate with an esteemed African Artist and engage with a broad range of African Cultural Aesthetics.

  • The Standard Bank Foundation Collection of African Art 1986

    R120

    The Standard Bank Foundation of African Art, housed at the University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries was begun ten years ago. This exhibition, one of the largest of its kind ever held in South Africa, commemorates a partnership which expresses the true ideals of both private enterprise and public education in this country.

  • Witches and Wicked Bodies

    R450

    Witches & Wicked Bodies provides an innovative, rich survey of images of European witchcraft from the sixteenth century to the present day. It focuses on the representation of female witches and the enduring stereotypes they embody, ranging from hideous old crones to beautiful young seductresses. Such imagery has ancient precedents and has been repeatedly re-invented by artists over the centuries, to include scenes with corpses and cauldrons, caverns and kitchens, and the dead being raised through demonic or satanic rites – all inversions of an ordered and religious social world.