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R220Mister Pip the cat had a busy night and he’s looking forward to getting some sleep. All he needs is somewhere quiet to lie down. He tries all his favorite spots for snoozing, but between the monstrous VROOOM of the vacuum cleaner, the persistent RING-RING of the telephone, and the incessant COO COO of canoodling pigeons, he is disturbed and awakened over and over again. Not even his favorite plant can offer Mister Pip the solace he needs. Will Mister Pip ever find a peaceful place to rest his head?
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R550Bringing together the artist’s paintings, sculptures and drawings in over one hundred colour illustrations, this book connects Modigliani’s art with his life in Paris and to the time he spent in the South of France during the First World War. It examines his relationship to a close circle of friends and associates, including the poets, art dealers, writers and musicians who often posed for his portraits.
Also available in Hardcover at R770 (contact via email)
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R500While living in Bethnal Green, east London, Henderson took to walking the streets and created an extraordinary collection of photographs documenting life in the area between 1949 and 1953. This beautiful book showcases over 150 of these photographs, which capture the textures of the streets and the heart of working-class life in all its post-war reality – many have never before been published.
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R400Beautiful, flamboyant, daring and fiercely independent, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) emerged in the 1960s as a powerful and original figure in the male-dominated art world centred on Paris. That city contains perhaps her best-known monument, the vibrant, colourful and hugely popular Fontaine Stravinsky, near the Pompidou Centre, created in 1983.
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R500Peter Fraser has been at the forefront of contemporary photography since the early 1980s. Much of his work involves an almost obsessive focus on the stuff of the world, the matter and materials that he finds in the everyday.
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R660This new biography paints a riveting portrait of Pablo Picasso, examining both his strengths and shortcomings as husband, lover and father.
Olivier Widmaier Picasso’s unique insight into the life of one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists, details not only Picasso’s hopes, fears and regrets, but also his certainties and commitments, his unique audacity, his happiness and his conflicts.
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R500“Picasso: Peace and Freedom” is the first in-depth examination of Picasso as a politically and socially engaged artist, from the 1940s, when he defiantly remained in Paris during the Nazi occupation, throughout the subsequent Cold War period. Picasso was a member of, and a huge financial donor to, the Communist Party from 1944 until his death in 1973.
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R150Poka and Mia are two insects; Mia is the child and Poka is the parent. Through a combination of simple words and endearing illustrations, Kitty Crowther brings vividly to life all the frustrations that can arise from a simple visit to the cinema.
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R150Have you ever had to drag your parents out of bed? Mia the insect could use your help! It’s a nice day outside and she can’t wait to get going, but Poka is still fast asleep…
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R150This delightful series of picture books expresses the humour, frustrations, and profundities of the parent/child relationship through two endearing insects, Poka and Mia.
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R500Born in London in 1963, Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain’s most exciting contemporary artists. Her work is characterised by its use of industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal. With these she casts the surfaces and volume in and around everyday objects and architectural space, creating evocative sculptures that range from the intimate to the monumental.
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R940A revolution in visual culture 1905 – 1955.
In exploring the intersection of art, politics and society, few collections in the world can compare with the David King collection. David King (1943-2016) was not only a passionate collector, but also an artist, designer and historian. Over a lifetime he amassed one of the world’s largest collections of Soviet political art and photographs. Every step of the Soviet journey is documented in visual media, photomontage, photographs, paintings, handwritten notes, books (signed with annotations and marginalia), enclosures and ephemera.
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R400Expert Nicholas Tromans provides incredible insight on this great artist’s life – to listen to a few of them, click here.
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R250A circle and a square play together to create an entire imaginary world.
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R375The tumultuous events of the Russian Revolution were matched by dramatic shifts in graphic art and design that continue to influence our visual landscape. David King, an internationally acclaimed graphic designer, selected the posters reproduced here from his own unparalleled collection. Constructivist posters, socialist advertising, and biting political satire are all represented, as are artists such as Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and Gustav Klutsis. King sets the posters in context and profiles the art directors whose vision played a vital role in creating these striking works.
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R240Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of modern times. His painting “September” is a response to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, made some four years after the event.
