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Making art is quite therapeutic, Tracey Moffatt once said of herself. This brief statement reveals much of the artist’s personality and above all about her manner of interpreting the artistic experience, a practice that frequently refers to her personal episodes and events.
Published on the occasion of renowned Belgian figurative painter Luc Tuymans’ retrospective exhibition in Hungary and Poland, this volume circumvents the typical monograph format by focusing on the reflections of regional writers, whose perspectives were solicited for being less inhibited and more direct than the typical art historian’s.
Today and Yesterday is a Catalogue of an exhibition of Tyrone Appollis’ work held at the Sanlam Art Gallery, Bellville, in 2006.
Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg (1883 – 1931) is perhaps best known as a prime mover in De Stijl, the Dutch artistic movement that demanded an extreme simplicity and abstraction in both architecture and painting. Here, for the first time, the true extent of his influence is explored, demonstrating that it reached far beyond Holland, throughout Europe, into Russia and beyond.
Throughout his career, Vincent van Gogh attempted the paradoxical task of representing night through color and tonality. His procedure followed the trend set by the Impressionists of “translating” visual light effects with various color combinations, yet this goal was grafted onto his desire to interweave the visual and the metaphorical in order to produce fresh and original works of art.
Veruschka may indeed be the most beautiful woman in the world. But this great supermodel has always been more than just a pretty face. Vera Lehndorff transformed her image, her name, and the world in the pursuit of high fashion and of art.
Victor Willing first came to prominence in 1955 and his mature work, based on the operations of the subconscious and with reference to writers and theorists such as Nietzsche, Sartre, and Tristan Tzara, was both responsive to and influential on the contemporary London art scene.
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The exhibition titled I Invented Myself consisted of works privately owned by well-known art collector and philanthropist Jack Ginsberg, who has over many years assembled an astonishing collection that includes more than 700 artworks, books, and collectibles by South African artist Walter Battiss, including some works which have never been on display in public before.
Wim Botha won the Standard Bank Young Artist award for Visual Art 2005. This wonderfully produced catalogue documents the eight years of work leading up to that achievement.
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the self-styled ‘Enemy’, was the most important British writer-artist of the twentieth-century. In this, the first introduction to explore Lewis’s work both as painter and a writer, Richard Humphreys examines his hugely varied output, and explains his ideas about art, life and politics.
The career of French artist Yves Klein lasted just eight years (from 1954 to 1962), but in that short span he took Europe by storm.
Taking its title from the wordplay of a child who has cerebral palsy, this book spotlights the world of disability- a world that tends to be secret, a source of stigma, shame and disgrace.
The subtle and sensitive photography of Angela Buckland records her journey through this world from when she first suspected that her son was disabled to her decision to record the experiences of seven families with disabled children.
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