Wim Botha: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005
R250Wim 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.
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Wine Tours in the South of France
Original price was: R150.R50Current price is: R50.This book takes readers on an informative and picturesque stroll through the sun-drenched regions of the south of France, which in the past 15 years has dramatically revamped its wine-growing and vinification procedures.
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Winter
R250This gift book celebrates the highs and lows of the winter season through art drawn from Tate’s collection. Divided into key themes – ‘Seasonal Views & Landscapes’, ‘Religious Imagery’, ‘Celebration & Festivity’ and ‘Friends & Family/Journeying’ – each of the works of art included has been individually selected for the particular way in which the artist has attempted to capture this special time of year.
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Out of stockWired: Contemporary Zulu Telephone Wire Baskets
R500Wired presents a distinctive art form created within the rich cultural context of contemporary Zulu/South African culture. The book showcases hundreds of extraordinary, colourful telephone wire baskets – a craft based on Zulu traditions, using recycled materials.
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With My Head Above the Parapet: An Insider Account of the ANC in Power
R100Ben Turok, a former antiapartheid activist and veteran ANC MP, played a key role in the writing of the Freedom Charter, in particular its chapter dealing with economic equality. In November 2011, he broke party ranks and did not vote for the controversial Protection of Information Bill, also known as the Secrecy Bill.
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Within Loving Memory of the Century: An Autobiography
R260Azaria Mbatha is one of South Africa’s most important contemporary artists in the last century. This autobiography is rooted in the traditional Zulu heritage of his childhood and the tenets of Christianity imparted by his father. Mbatha weaves his own history into the history of his family, into the history of South Africa and into the history of his time, as he experienced it.
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Without Masks: Contemporary Afrocuban Art, The von Christierson Collection.
R380This remarkable exhibition assembled a diverse group of Cuban contemporary artists devoted to two fascinating themes: on the one hand, an insight into contemporary Afro-Cuban cultural and religious traditions and, on the other, an intense dialogue on the complex racial issues affecting the country today
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Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics
R600Developing the argument that through aesthetic force emerges the truly political, the book moves beyond polarization of the aesthetic and the cultural. Instead, photographic works are read for their subversive political and cultural force, as it emerges through the aesthetics of the image.
This book is ideal for students of Photography, Art History, Art and Visual Culture, and Gender.
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World of Art: American Art and Architecture
R145This new survey provides a complete history of American art and architecture from its seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the latest installation and video work
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World of Art: Bruegel
R180Although Pieter Bruegel’s pictures have been celebrated throughout the past four hundred years, the artist himself remains a shadowy and misunderstood figure.
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World of Art: Outsider Art Spontaneous Alternatives
R170Outsider Art is the work produced outside the mainstream of modern western art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, eccentric recluses, folk artists, psychiatric patients, criminals and others beyond the margins of society and the art market. Coined in 1972, the term in English derived from Jean Dubuffet’s ‘Art
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World of Art: The Language of Ornament
James Trilling presents an immense variety of ornament from the Paleolithic Age to the present day, enabling the reader to appreciate inherent form and beauty, as well as historical importance across cultures – whether in the monumental architecture of Mycenean Greece or the inlaid vessels of Zhou Dynasty China, in the bronze mirrors of early Celtic Britain or the carved or worn ornament of Native Americans. -
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Writing The City into Being
Original price was: R300.R150Current price is: R150.Writing the City into Being is Bremner’s long-awaited collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg. It is both an unflinching analysis of the characteristics of an extraordinary city and a work of imagination – a bringing of the evasive city into being through writing.
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WTF: Capturing Zuma- A Cartoonist’s Tale
R295WTF is renowned cartoonist Zapiro’s account of the Zuma years in 400 brilliant cartoons and the stories behind them.
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British Artists: Wyndham Lewis
R125Wyndham 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.
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Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums
R530The Museum of Modern Art is now in the midst of the largest building project in its history. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new Museum will reopen in midtown Manhattan in winter 2004-05 to coincide with its 75th anniversary. The 630,000-square-foot Museum will be nearly twice the size of the former facility, offering dramatically expanded and redesigned spaces for exhibitions, public programming, educational outreach, and scholarly research.
