Illusion Confusion: The Wonderful World of Optical Deception
R400This comprehensive survey of optical illusions includes an astonishing range of images from ancient times to the present.
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Out of stockImages of Table Mountain
R350Images of Table Mountain is a visual description of the inequalities that exists between the different races that reside in Cape Town with Table Mountain as the on characteristic that they all have in common. Images of Table Mountain depicts the vast differences between Capetonians as well as their interrelations.
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Imbali Artbooks: Adventuring into Art
R1500Through these books, young people will discover this world of art by looking, thinking and discussing, by making and doing, by exploring different materials, and by expressing visual ideas of their own. The Imbali Artbooks consist of a box set of eight books. The series is structured around a number of themes and each chapter raises interwoven topics, issues and ideas that are engaging and relevant to young people in the 21st century.
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Impressionism
R250In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we explore the artists, subjects, and techniques that first brought the easel out of the studio and shifted artistic attention from history, religion, or portraiture to the evanescent ebb and flow of modern life.
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Impressionism :Origins , Practice,Reception
R170During the 1870s and 1880s, a loose group of French artists, including Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subject matter that challenged the art prompted by the Academie Francaise and the Salons where “official” assumptions about the meaning of painting prevailed.
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In Ethiopia with a Mule
R300Dervla Murphy set out with her pack-mule Jock on a hazardous trek through Ethiopia’s remote and hostile regions. Inspired by stories of Prester John and the Queen of Sheba, she hoped to find beauty, danger, solitude, and mystery.
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In My Father’s Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles
R180Of all the myriad stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame – and, some would say, infamy – of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest film ever, Citizen Kane. Many books have been written about him, detailing his achievements as an artist as well as his foibles as a human being. None of them, however, has come so close to the real man as Chris Welles Feder does in this beautifully realised portrait of her father.
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In My View: Personal Reflections On Art By Today’s Leading Artists
R300In My View is a collection of reflections by 78 contemporary artists in which each artist reveals the influence and inspiration he or she has found in a particular artwork or artist. Among the artists are John Baldessari, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close, Michael Craig-Martin, Tacita Dean, Marlene Dumas, Antony Gormley, Susan Hiller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Candida Höfer, Vik Muniz, Jorge Pardo, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Bill Viola and Rachel Whiteread. The stories show the profound connections that exist between artists past and present and offer an alternative look at art history from the 15th century to the 1960s, through the eyes of contemporary artists themselves. Simon Grant’s introduction identifies themes that emerge and contextualizes the history and practice of artists looking back at the work of others.
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In the Forest
Original price was: R515.R415Current price is: R415.From the creators of Popville comes an extraordinary new pop-up book which explores the world of our disappearing rain forests.
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In the Middle of Nowhere :J.M. Coetzee in South Africa
R300Relying on the author’s personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee’s autobiographical and fictional works, this book deals with Coetzee’s formation as a writer of international prominence, whose life and writing career began in South Africa.
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In the Spirit of Aspen
R480Eclectic, eccentric, and smart, Aspen has always been a pioneer of style. Drawing on the words and photo albums of the glamorous people who lived there, page after page of this richly textured volume reveals the spirit of this surprisingly sophisticated town nestled in the wild Rocky Moutains of Colorado.
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In the Spirit of Beverly Hills
R250With its dreamy mansions , sophisticated residents ,world -renowned shopping,and legendary haunts,Beverly Hills is the epitome of luxury wealth, and beauty.Originally established as a private residential community in the early twentieth century,
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In the Spirit of Palm Beach
R250Established as a luxury vacation destination for the rich and famous in the early 1900s, Palm Beach is synonymous with old-world glamour and new world sophistication
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Out of stockIncredible Tretchikoff: Life of an Artist and Adventurer
R250Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl is one of the most famous images of all time. Known as the ‘Green Lady’, it has been reproduced countless times, appearing everywhere from mugs and T-shirts to pop videos and blockbuster films.
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India: A Short History
R360In India: A Short History Andrew Robinson offers an incisive distillation of India’s uniquely diverse history, from the advanced cities of the early Indus Valley to India’s current incarnation as the world’s largest democracy.
