A World in Common
R1170A celebration of the visual and cultural landscape of contemporary African photography, this stunning exhibition book offers critical insight from the perspectives of Africa’s leading artists and thinkers.
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Contemporary Design Africa
R690Contemporary Design Africa offers a refreshing challenge to rigid perceptions of what African design looks like. Focusing primarily on interior decoration, the book presents fifty designers, artisans, and cooperatives based on the continent or part of the diaspora who are creating sophisticated and innovative products and interiors.
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David Goldblatt: In Boksburg
R1310This new edition includes several additional photographs and a new essay by Sean O’Toole, providing penetrating insight into the history of the book and the story behind the photographs and their subject.
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David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive
R1540A panorama of the career of South African photographer David Goldblatt, elucidating his artistic commitments, networks, and influence
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David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion and Democracy
R1515This book is a selective retrospective of David Goldblatt (born 1930), a key figure in 20th-century photography. Starting from his earliest photographic series, it shows the foundations of Goldblatt’s critical passion for photography, his social sensitivity and political consciousness. Also presented are his most recent photographs pertaining to the changing situation in his native South…
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Ernest Cole: The True America
R2795The first publication of photographs taken by Ernest Cole in the United States during the turbulent and eventful late 1960s and early 1970s.
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From Africa: a Celebration of Creativity from Africa Compiled and Published by Counter-Print
R420Featuring 19 design companies & their work including: Hust Wilson, Thandiwe Muriu, Elio Moavero, Thabiso Ntuli, Vukile Batyi, Pearly Yon, Mam’Gobozi Design Factory, Daniel Ting Chong, The Ninevites, Mrs + Mr Luke, Blood, Sweat + Polony, R!OT – Sindiso Nyoni, Bold Branding, Studio Onss Mhirsi, Ahmad Hammoud, VM DSGN, David Alabo and MUTI.
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Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall
R910Originally published in 2010 on the occasion of Against the Wall, Dumas’s first solo presentation at David Zwirner in New York, this much sought-after exhibition catalogue—which sold out shortly after publication—has been reprinted to coincide with the artist’s 2014–2015 European retrospective exhibition The Image as Burden, organized by Tate Modern, London in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Fondation Beyeler, Basel.
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Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals
R1890Marlene Dumas’s works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery.
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South Africa: The Art of a Nation
R1210South Africa: the art of a nation explores the history of South Africa through a selection of its artworks, playing particular attention not only to their relationship to one another, but also to their connections to key episodes in the nation’s evolution.
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The History of African Art (Art Essentials)
R455This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 150,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the challenges of the present. This enormous and complex field of study, once under-appreciated by the Western art world, is now of global importance and an essential subject of education in art history.
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Out of stockThe People Shall Govern! The Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Posters, 1979-1985
R915The People Shall Govern! features nearly all the surviving posters that Medu created between 1979 and 1985.
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Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art
R1680Over 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.
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When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
R1510This landmark publication accompanies an international touring exhibition devoted to Black figuration in painting from the 1920s to now, featuring artists from Africa and the African diaspora.
