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  • 10 – Marion Bataille

    R220

    A sensationally attractive package (chunky and substantial, with a bright red slipcase and cover) sets the stage for an inventive exploration of counting?from one to ten and back again, simultaneously. As the reader turns the pages, one becomes two and then three, as ten becomes nine and then eight. The numbers unfold and transform with breathtaking ingenuity. 10 is a beautiful book that belongs in all design and gift departments.

  • A is for Artist an alphabet

    R150
  • Art of McSweeney’s (Hardcover)

    R480

    A novel with each cover hand-illustrated by the author. Literary journals bound by magnets, or designed to look like junk mail. The sharp wit, gorgeous design, and playful why not invention of independent literary publisher McSweeney’s have earned it a large and loyal following and made its journals, books, The Believer magazine, and Wholphin DVDs collectible favorites of readers and graphic designers alike. Created by the McSweeney’s staff to commemorate their 11th (or 12th) anniversary, this book showcases their award-winning art and design across all the company’s activities. It features hundreds of images, interviews with collaborators such as Chris Ware and Michael Chabon, and dozens of insights into McSweeney’s quirky creative process and the visual experience of reading.

  • British Artists: John Everett Millais

    R100

    John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the quintessential English gentleman artist. Author Christine Riding analyzes his artistic career, his critics, and his audience, exploring the broader issues that preoccupied his contemporaries on the subject of art itself.

  • British Artists: Joseph Wright

    Part of a series of monographs on the lives and careers of influential British artists, from the 18th century onwards. In this volume, Daniels addresses the diversity of the painterly talents of Joseph Wright (“of Derby”), and the inextricable links between his art and the Enlightenment.

  • David Hockney: Moving Focus

    R1230

    Breathing new life into the nexus of Tate’s collection, David Hockney: Moving Focus speaks to the artist’s refusal to conform during periods of uncertainty and polarization as he traversed the boundaries of class, sexuality, and high art, and how his work still surprises, unsettles, and addresses younger generations of viewers.

  • DesignArt

    R240

    For well over a hundred years certain artists have blurred the distinction between ‘art’ and ‘design’, creating works for which Alex Coles has coined the term ‘DesignArt’.

  • Expressionsists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider

    R1125

    The exhibition catalogue features in-depth investigations of major themes and a wide variety of spotlight essays to shine a light on a remarkable artistic group: their travels and techniques, their interests and sources of inspiration, and the relationships that bound them together.

  • Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon

    R500

    The book is lavishly illustrated with photos of this new sculpture, while also serving as an introduction to the artist’s life and work.

  • John Martin: Apocalypse

    R400

    This first comprehensive book on Martin in many years examines the critic’s idea of the proper role of the artist, questioning Martin’s place in art history as well as our own ideas of “good” and “bad” taste, “high” and “low” art.

  • Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation

    R500

    This new book considers all aspects of Kenneth Clark’s life and work, including his landmark TV series, Civilization.

  • Man Ray: Writings on Art (Hardback)

    R570

    Man Ray (1890-1976), a pioneer of the Dada movement and a central protagonist of surrealism, is best known for his innovative photographs, but his writings are also remarkable expressions of his identity as an artist. The first extensive collection of Man Ray’s texts about art in English, Man Ray: Writings on Art illuminates the diverse ways in which the artist used words to express his aesthetic, philosophical and political ideas. Richly illustrated and drawing on a broad range of materials, including artists’ books, essays, interviews, letters and visual poems, this collection presents the artist’s most significant writings about art, many of them never previously published. Offering a long overdue vision of Man Ray as someone who used words both as a creative medium and as a means of articulating ideas about the nature and value of art, it provides a powerful insight for students and scholars of modern art, as well as for artists, photographers and all those who count themselves as Man Ray fans.

  • Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit

    R800

    The first properly posthumous retrospective on the artist, this paperback exhibition book highlights the significance of Mike Kelley’s influential four-decade career on the development of art since the 1970s.

  • Pre-Raphaelite: Painting and Techniques

    R400

    A book examining the Pre-Raphaelite Painting techniques and innovations that produced a revolution in Art.

  • Quentin Blake

    R330

    Quentin Blake is a collaboration between Tate and London ‘s new House of Illustration, published to coincide with the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Inside Stories, a landmark show by Quentin Blake. Joanna Carey’s essay is a brilliant survey of Blake’s oeuvre, at once intimate, perceptive and illuminating, and written with an exuberance matching that of her subject.

  • Sketches of My Life

    R85

    With an introduction by a leading expert on the art of the period, this engaging book provides many new insights into the work of this extraordinary artist and the times in which he lived.