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After years of teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns…
The Sotho tradition of decorating the outside of their houses with painted and engraved patterns and pebbles set into plaster is fast disappearing. Less well-known than the Ndebele mural art, it is a particularly beautiful form of vernacular architectural decoration. Some examples of this traditional art form are featured here, as well as a number of examples of later Sotho mural art
Don McCullin (b. 1935) is an internationally acclaimed British photojournalist, best known for his war photography and images of urban strife.
This book reveals the story of Donald Saff s pioneering work in collaborative editions, unique paintings, and sculptures, chronicling Saff s role working with significant artists. For decades Saff has worked closely and intensely with artists as they navigated the tumultuous journey from conception to finished product, offering solutions and ideas that helped bring their…
The Silk Road is not a place, but a journey, a route from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central plains of China, through high mountains and inhospitable deserts.
This hardback Dora Maar exhibition catalogue is an accessible and elegant introduction to the practice and impact of an unsung surrealist master. It contains many of Dora Maar’s greatest works, interspersed with texts by a selection of pre-eminent critics and writers. French photographer, painter and poet Dora Maar (b. Henriette Theodora Markovitch, 1907–97), was a…
Maurer trained in graphic techniques, and in her graphic works, she often examines the movement of markings left by different materials and production processes. Her works, be they photographs, graphic work or films, share a preoccupation with structure, relativity of perception and exploration of the medium’s limits. Essays to include an introductory overview by Tate curator Juliet Bingham; Klara Kemp-Welch will examine Maurer’s early works and pedagogical activities between 1975-7; Carly Whitefield will write on the artist’s film works and the state-run Balazs Bela Studio; and David Feher will survey the artist’s practice from the 1980s to the present day.
A major retrospective of the seven-decade career of Dorothea Tanning, the multifaceted artist who pushed the boundaries of surrealist art
American artist Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012) redrew the boundaries of surrealism. She first encountered the movement in New York in the 1930s, and in the 1940s, she married fellow painter Max Ernst and moved to the Arizona desert.
For Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang, Double Happiness is an extremely personal project: ?For years, my folks had been bugging me to get married,? he says, ?and I wanted to show them how I view marriage in Taiwan. I?m not anti-marriage . . . but I had to do something to protest.? That was in 1994, and thus began Chang?s fascination with the Taiwanese wedding industry.
‘I provide the board, the pieces and the dice, but you are the ones that have to play’-Douglas Gordon
Over the past decade Douglas Gordon has received recognition as one of the most exciting and challenging British artist working today. His deployment of
Benjamin Pogrund, a foremost journalist in the struggle against apartheid and in more recent years an ardent worker for peace and social concern in Israel, brings to this study peerless qualifications for comparing the controversial historical experience of South Africa and Israel.
An important new study of drawings by one of the most important French artists of the twentieth century
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) achieved international recognition in the late 1940s for his paintings inspired by children’s drawings, the art of psychiatric patients, and graffiti.
This book examines the work of Duchamp, Man Ray, and Picabia, three pioneering figures in the history of modernism. It explores the points of convergence and the parallels in their development throughout their careers.
First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins’ biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been out of print for many years.
“I had five paternal uncles, four in South Africa and one in India. For some reason, each uncle had a son named Ebrahim. What a stupid idea. It made me feel like a sausage from a boerewors factory.”
The American Artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has worked in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, books and film, to produce art that is at once playful and profound. Based in Los Angeles since the late 1950s, he was influential in the development of Pop Art on the west coast, particularly through…
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