• Skidmore, Owings & MerrillOut of stock

    Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

    R640

    This monograph surveys thirty of the most iconic buildings designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the legendary American architecture firm, since its founding in 1936.

  • Slow Painting

    Slow Painting

    R750

    A quiet revolution in painting that seeks to overturn fast-paced art production

    British curator and writer Martin Herbert brings together in this volume the works of 19 contemporary painters that share a common stance that has come to be identified as “slow painting,” referring both to its creation and its apprehension by the viewer. Moving from representation to abstraction, these artists insist on the phenomenological experience, creating works that reveal themselves slowly, as a riposte to the contemporary tendency toward an art that is “fast,” quickly made and then consumed.

    With 50 illustrations, Slow Painting includes an essay and curatorial overview by Martin Herbert and round-table interview with Hettie Judah.

  • Some Afrikaners Revisited, David Goldblatt

    Some Afrikaners Revisited, David Goldblatt

    R1300

    The work of David Goldblatt – as recipient of the 2006 Hasselblad Foundation Award undoubtedly South Africa’s most prominent active photographer – reflects a life-long exploration of the relationship between individual South Africans and the society they live in. His first extended photographic essay was compiled in the 1960s. When it was finally published in 1975 as Some Afrikaners Photographed, the book created quite a stir locally. Eventually most of the small print-run had to be sold off for a song.

  • Somewhere on the Border

    Somewhere on the Border

    R150

    Somewhere on the Border was written in exile and was intercepted in the post and banned by the apartheid censors. This one-act version of the play brings the South African Border War back into public discourse and pierces through the armour of silence, secrecy and shame that still surrounds it.

  • Sophiatown

    Sophiatown

    R250

    Sophiatown was the ‘Chicago of South Africa’, a vibrant community that produced not only gangsters and shebeen queens but leading journalists, writers, musicians and politicians, and gave urban African culture its rhythm and style. This play, based on the life history of Sophiatown, opened at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in February 1986 to great acclaim. The play won the AA Life Vita Award for Playwright of the Year 1985/86. This new edition of the play includes an introduction which sets the work in its historical context.

  • Sound

    Sound

    R425

    This volume is the first sourcebook to provide, through original critical writings and artists’ statements, a genealogy of sonic pathways into the arts; philosophical reflections on the meanings of noise and silence; dialogues between art and music; investigations of the role of listening and acoustic space; and a comprehensive survey of sound works by international artists from the avant-garde era to the present.

  • South Africa: The Art of a NationOut of stock

    South Africa: The Art of a Nation

    R1210

    South 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.

  • South African Art Market: Pricing & Patterns

    South African Art Market: Pricing & Patterns

    R500

    A report on the primary art market in South Africa that examines the structure and regional differences between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa’s art capitals.

  • Spring Cannot be Cancelled : David Hockney in Normandy

    Spring Cannot be Cancelled : David Hockney in Normandy

    R560

    So when Covid-19 and lockdown struck, it made little difference to life at La Grande Cour, the centuries-old Normandy farmhouse where Hockney set up a studio a year before, in time to paint the arrival of spring. In fact, he relished the enforced isolation as an opportunity for even greater devotion to his art.

  • Sale! Stained Glass

    Stained Glass

    Original price was: R310.Current price is: R200.

    A practical guide to making stained glass panels. Seven projects introduce the main techniques, including planning, cutting the glass and leading it all together. More advanced projects show how to use painting, etching and engraving to enhance the work.

  • Stanza Poetry No. 12

    Stanza Poetry No. 12

    R130

    An open space where poetry matters. Stanzas is a quarterly for new poetry to suit all moods. It provides a platform for established and emerging poets to share their most recent work and affirm poetry’s important place in our lives. “The sound must seem an echo of the sense.”

  • Stanza Poetry No. 29

    Stanza Poetry No. 29

    R130

    Stanzas publishes new and translated poems in English, and reviews of new collections published in South Africa. It provides a platform for both established and emerging poets to share their recent work and so affirm the place in our lives.

  • Stanza Poetry No. 7

    Stanza Poetry No. 7

    R130

    “…think of the caterpillar as the poet, and think of the chrysalis as the book, and think of the butterfly as what happens when the reader can act with the poem.” – Margaret Atwood

     

  • Stanzas Poetry Magazine No. 34

    Stanzas Poetry Magazine No. 34

    R120

    Stanzas publishes new and translated poems in English, and reviews of new collections published in South Africa. It provides a platform for both established and emerging poets to share their recent work and so affirm the place in our lives.

  • Stanzas Poetry Magazine No. 35

    Stanzas Poetry Magazine No. 35

    R120

    Stanzas publishes new and translated poems in English, and reviews of new collections published in South Africa. It provides a platform for both established and emerging poets to share their recent work and so affirm the place in our lives.

  • Stanzas Poetry No. 30

    Stanzas Poetry No. 30

    R120

    “For him [Milan Kundera], the novel was the highest form of aesthetic endeavor, a kind of anti-scripture representing the sensibility of  the individual, containing “an outlook, a wisdom, a position… that would rule out identification with any politics, any religion, any ideology, any moral doctrine, any group.” – David Samuels