• The Story Orchestra: The Sleeping BeautyOut of stock

    The Story Orchestra: The Sleeping Beauty

    R300

    Discover the enchanting world of The Sleeping Beauty in this musical retelling of the ballet—push the button on each beautiful scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Tchaikovsky’s score.

    Join the King and Queen as they throw a party for their new baby, Princess Aurora. But when a terrible guest arrives and places a curse on princess, the kingdom must find the one special person who can defeat it… As you and your little one journey through the magical scenes illustrated by artist Jessica Courtney Tickle, you will press the buttons to hear 10 excerpts from the ballet’s music.

  • The Surrealist Life of Leonora Carrington

    The Surrealist Life of Leonora Carrington

    In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father’s cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without) in the meantime Leonora Carrington had become a national treasure in Mexico, where she now lived, while her paintings are fetching ever-higher prices at auction today.

     

  • The Thabo Mbeki I knowOut of stock

    The Thabo Mbeki I know

    R300

    The Thabo Mbeki I Know is a collection that celebrates one of South Africa’s most exceptional thought leaders. The contributors include those who first got to know Thabo Mbeki as a young man, in South Africa and in exile, and those who encountered him as a statesman and worked alongside him as an African leader.

  • The Travelling Cat ChroniclesOut of stock

    The Travelling Cat Chronicles

    R200

    It’s not the journey that counts, but who’s at your side. Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van.

  • The Trust ManifestoOut of stock

    The Trust Manifesto

    R450

    We’re living in an extraordinary age: the age of trust. We trust the language of algorithms and the intentions of tech giants. The Trust Manifesto is for anyone how has started to question that trust; who worry where it might end, who fear ‘The Black Mirror Effect’. It is for those who wonder what an alternative internet would look like, built on trust, that works for all of us

  • The unknown Pauline Smith

    The unknown Pauline Smith

    R100

    Pauline Smith’s many admirers will welcome this new volume which contains writings which are out of print, have never before been published, or have not appeared in book form. This collection of largely unknown material spans the full range of her creative life from the early ‘Platkops’ stories to her last uncompleted work. What gives…

  • The Urban BeeKeeper: A Year Of Bees In The City

    The Urban BeeKeeper: A Year Of Bees In The City

    R350

    Practical and inspiring, this is an indispensable handbook for city beekeeping.

    Steve Benbow is at the heart of urban beekeeping. With zero experience, he built his first hive on his own tower-block rooftop. Today, he runs hives across London’s greatest landmarks.

    Packed with tips and advice on how to start off, this diary of a beekeeping year tells you everything you need to know about keeping bees. It is also Steve’s hugely entertaining personal story of the glorious ups and downs of the city beekeeper’s life

     

     

  • The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez

    The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez

    R380

    An innovative fusion of detection and biography, this book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania.

  • The View

    The View

    R250

    In some dystopian future, all homo-sexual people have been shipped into space. From his hermetically sealed pod, the Boy looks down on a ruined , devastated Earth. It is a story of loss, grief and isolation.

  • Sale! The Walt Disney Film Archives. The Animated Movies 1921–1968. 40th Ed.

    The Walt Disney Film Archives. The Animated Movies 1921–1968. 40th Ed.

    Original price was: R750.Current price is: R675.

    With extensive research conducted through the historical collections of the Walt Disney Company, as well as private collections, editor Daniel Kothenschulte curates some of the most precious concept paintings and storyboards to reveal just how these animation masterpieces came to life.

  • The Whole PictureOut of stock

    The Whole Picture

    R250

    From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron’s recent commitment to art restitution, and Beyoncé and Jay Z’s provocative music video filmed in the Louvre, the question of decolonising our relationship with the art around us is quickly gaining traction. People are waking up to the seedy history of the world’s art collections, and are starting to ask difficult questions about what the future of museums should look like.

    In The Whole Picture, art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries.

  • The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

    The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

    A bold new critique of the accepted history of figurative painting in the twentieth century.

    In The World New Made, critic Timothy Hyman argues that abstraction was just one of the means by which artists renewed pictorial language. Focusing on those painters who bucked tradition and opted for a new kind of figuration, Hyman presents them as a countermovement to the sometimes oppressive stylistic imperative that set in as Cubism became a movement. Around the world, artists such as Max Beckmann, Fernand Léger, Balthus, Paula Rego, Marc Chagall, Stanley Spencer, R. B. Kitaj, Philip Guston, Picasso, Matisse, Lucian Freud, and others found an idiom for human-centered painting. Together they offer a counterargument to Western formalism, but also a foundation for the figurative painters of the twenty-first century.

  • Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi: Gymnasium

    Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi: Gymnasium

    R250

    The exhibition opened on the eve of South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown, and the catalogue essay by Mwenya B Kabwe asks what the Gymnasium series gives us ’at a time like this, a time of such massive upheaval’. Interweaving a fabular tale with her insights into Nkosi’s lens on this moment, Kabwe write: ’Nkosi tells us that when we are talking about race, we are never just talking about race. When we are talking about infectious diseases, we are actually talking about the biological expression of social inequality.’ She continues:

  • Theo Eshetu: Till Death Us Do Part

    Theo Eshetu: Till Death Us Do Part

    R1200

    Groundbreaking upon its release in 1987, Till Death Us Do Part is a 20-screen video-wall installation made by British/Ethiopian artist Theo Eshetu.

  • Thinking With TypeOut of stock

    Thinking With Type

    R300

    The best-selling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded second edition: Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. The book covers all typography essentials, from typefaces and type families, to kerning and tracking, to using a grid. Visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form, including what the rules are, and how to break them.

  • This Is Shakespeare : How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright

    This Is Shakespeare : How to Read the World’s Greatest Playwright

    R230

    This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare’s plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex.