Fighting History
R260Fighting History is the first book to engage with the story of British history painting and its survival into contemporary practice today
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Frank Spears – The Painter
R400Frank Spears – the painter is a visual biography which traces his life from his humble beginnings in Birmingham to his professional life in Cape Town where he met his wife of almost 60 years, the poet, Dorothea Spears.
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Out of stockFred Page : Ringmaster of the Imagination 1908-1984
R200Frederick Hutchinson Page was an artist who is regarded as South Africa’s foremost Surrealist painter. He died in 1984 at the age of 76 having produced a body of work which is remarkable not only for its unique personal imagery, but which is also one of the few examples, in the 20th century, of an painter who portrays with some accuracy, the particular architectural features of the city in which he lived. Between 1947 and 1980, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, formed the backdrop for his extraordinarily fertile visual imagination. Reclusive by choice, he lived in an area close to the city’s harbour called Central where most of the material he used for the images was gleaned from sketches and photographs.
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British Artists: George Stubbs
R175In 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.
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Gwen John (Tate British Artist Series)
R200Gwen John (1876–1939) was an artist with a singular vision, one whose intense gaze produced some of the most beguiling and atmospheric paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Out of stockHarold Voigt – The Poetry of Sight
R560Harold Voigt has, over the past 35 years, produced an impressive oeuvre which distinguishes him as one of South Africa’s finest painters. However varied the subject matter of his paintings, the brilliance of execution ensures that in each instance that timeless moment is reached when craftsmanship transcends into art, and each painting resonates with a life of its own.
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Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode
R250Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and engravings, which still absorb viewers after nearly three centuries, record human vice and folly with a sharp eye and cutting intelligence.
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How to Paint like Turner
R240British artist J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) painted unforgettable watercolors and was revered for his masterly use of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes. Now, this clear, accessible book reveals the secrets of Turner’s technique, making his magical effects possible for today’s painters.
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Out of stockIncredible Tretchikoff: Life of an Artist and Adventurer
R250Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl is one of the most famous images of all time. Known as the ‘Green Lady’, it has been reproduced countless times, appearing everywhere from mugs and T-shirts to pop videos and blockbuster films.
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Is there Still Life ?:Continuity and Change in South African Still Life Painting
R250Still life painting came to South Africa with other genres of art such as Portraiture and Landscape as part of the European settlement,and for the past hundred years or so it has been practised in a variety of different ways.
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Jackson Pollock
R130Jackson Pollock made a tremendous impact on Modern art in the twentieth century. As a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, he was a key figure in the postwar tradition that brought American art to the forefront of the international scene.
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British Artists: James McNeill Whistler
Original price was: R175.R125Current price is: R125.The American-born artist James McNeill Whistler (1934-1903) was hugely influential in the Victorian art world, his work the subject of vigorous debate.
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Jasper Johns The Museum of Modern Art
R80Jasper Johns made a tremendous impact on Modern art in the twentieth century. As a pioneer of Pop art, he was a key figure in the postwar tradition that brought American art to the forefront of the international scene. This new volume in the MoMA Artist Series, which explores important artists and favorite works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, guides readers through a dozen of the artist’s most memorable achievements.
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Out of stockJo Smail: The Past Is Present
R150exhibition catalogue for Jo Smail’s solo show at Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, USA, in 2017.
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Tate British Artists Series: John Constable
R200John Constable (1776–1837) is best known for his idyllic paintings of the English countryside. Yet he was also a brilliant innovator who brought a new vivacity to the observation of nature.
