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    Vitamin C+

    R1680

    Over 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by a team of art experts – an indispensable who’s who of the most exciting and innovative names working in the medium

    Collage is an artistic language comprising found images, fragmentary forms, and unexpected juxtapositions. While it first gained status as high art in the early twentieth century, the past decade has seen a fresh explosion of artists using this dynamic and experimental approach to image making.

  • Vitamin D3 – Today’s best contemporary drawing

    R1400

    The latest instalment of this indispensable survey of contemporary drawing, chosen by the world’s leading art experts

    Over the past 50 years, drawing has been elevated from a supporting role to a primary medium, ranking alongside painting as a central art form. Since the publication of Vitamin D (2005) and D2 (2013), contemporary artists have continued to explore drawing’s possibilities – from intimate to large-scale works, in a diversity of mark-making processes and materials. Vitamin D3 showcases more than 100 such artists, nominated by more than 70 international art experts.

  • Woman in the Picture

    R330

    In this impassioned book, art historian Catherine McCormack asks us to look again at what these images have told us to value, opening up our most loved images – from those of Titian and Botticelli to Picasso and the Pre-Raphaelites. She also shows us how women artists – from Berthe Morisot to Beyonce, Judy Chicago to Kara Walker – have offered us new ways of thinking about women’s identity, sexuality, race and power.

  • Bruce Nauman

    R625

    Focusing in particular on his experiments with sound, the moving image and immersive installations, this exhibition book comprises texts on Nauman’s video works of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as on his studio practice and more recent work, along with a conversation between the artist and Andrea Lissoni and Nicholas Serota.

  • A Place Called Home

    R90

      An exhibition catalogue of a Contemporary Art Show with Artists from the South Asian Diaspora.

  • Akademie X: Lessons In Art + Life

    R530

    Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life brings together a faculty of artists and writers from across the globe, including high profile art educators, such as Marina Abramovic, Carol Bove, Mark Dion, Olafur Eliasson, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Miranda July, Bob Nickas, Raqs Media Collective, Neo Rauch, John Stezaker, Richard Wentworth and Christopher Williams.

  • Art on the Cutting Edge – A Guide to Contemporary Movements

    R265

    This book by Lea Vergine, which discusses seventeen different art movements in separate chapters, offers, within the panorama of contemporary art criticism books, a blend between a handy art-history manual and an assessment of a cultural adventure that has passed through and overturned the parameters of taste of the last forty years.

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    Clean and Grime

    R135

    This catalogue documents two art exhibitions, CLEAN and GRIME. CLEAN came first, in 2001, followed by GRIME in 2002. Reader’s access CLEAN from one end of the catalogue, GRIME from the other …”–Page [2] (both sections). CD-ROM includes artists’ portfolios, artists’ biographies, essays, press statements, and reviews.

  • Contemporary Art in Print

    R850

    Arguably the most significant book on printmaking published in the last five years, showcasing rare works on paper created for the Paragon Press by 25 leading artists – including The Chapman Brothers, Peter Doig, Damien Hirst and Gary Hume. Edited by Patrick Elliott. Designed by Peter Willberg.

  • Contemporary Art in Print: The Publications of Charles Booth-Clibborn and His Imprint the Paragon Press 2001-2006

    R850

    This book is published on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of The Paragon Press. It offers a survey of the publications of the last five years. The range of artists Charles Booth-Clibborn works with stretches across generations from Alan Davie and the late Terry Frost through to Jake and Dinos Chapman and Gary Hume as well as a younger generation of artists such as Gillian Carnegie and George Shaw.

  • Costume and Fashion A Concise History

    R180

    A classic study of the history of fashion brought right up to date

  • Dana Schutz

    R450

    Viewed by both critics and her peers as the ultimate painter’s painter, her canvases are filled with a lush, boldly painted cast of characters that share the bravado and oddness of Paul Gauguin, Philip Guston, and the German Expressionists.

  • Douglas Gordon (Tate Modern Artist Series)

    R150

    ‘I provide the board, the pieces and the dice, but you are the ones that have to play’-Douglas Gordon
    Over the past decade Douglas Gordon has received recognition as one of the most exciting and challenging British artist working today. His deployment of

  • Foam Along the Waterline: Works by Virginia MacKenny

    R200

    Foam Along the Waterline is a catalogue published to accompany Virginia MacKenny’s solo exhibition of paintings and etchings at the University of Cape Town Irma Stern Museum in September/October 2008.

  • British Artists: George Stubbs

    R175

    In this study, Martin Myrone presents a less familiar account of the artist. From his earliest anatomical studies through to his depictions of exotic animals and experiments with the industrialist Josiah Wedgwood, Stubbs is shown to have been dynamically engaged with the science, technology and popular culture of his day. He emerges from this new account as an artist more experimental and challenging than is conventionally thought.

  • Gerhard Richter – Panorama

    R700

    Gerhard Richter: Panorama is the first and most complete overview of Richter’s whole career. Where previous monographs have focused on a single aspect of his work, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half-century of activity. It includes his photo- paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes, portraits, colour charts, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs, providing the definitive account of Richter’s colossal artistic achievements.