LetterScapes – A Global Survey of Typographic Installations
R250We are bombarded with words today. Public spaces are saturated with a discordant mix of messages, but sometimes a sentence, a word, or even an individual letter stops us in our tracks.
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Lines of thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now
R340Lines of Thought uncovers the process and practice of drawing, illustrated by a selection of work created over 500 years. From Dürer to Degas, Michelangelo to Matisse, Rembrandt to Riley, this publication studies the types of thinking that produced their drawings; brainstorming, inquiry, experiment, association, development and decision, giving us fresh insight into the creative impulse of some of the world’s greatest artists.
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M.C Escher Pop-Up | Christmas Gifts
R440These marvelous paper constructions allow us to appreciate in new ways the artist’s impossible geometry and his themes of infinity and paradox. The book also features quotes from Escher on the original pieces of art as well as reproductions of a number of his other works.
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Make Art With Your Hands And Feet
R200Make art with your hands and feet! reinterprets the classic body-based drawing project for young children. Children can trace around their hands, fingers, and thumbs to complete 32 different pictures on the page, as well as making hand- and finger-prints with paint
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Martin Creed: Works
R660Renowned for his straightforward approach to making art and his deft economy of means, Martin Creed has produced sculptures, installations, drawings, films, performances, music, and text, each of which has found its inspiration in the objects and activities of everyday life. This extensive volume documents some 800 works produced over twenty years and selected by the artist himself.
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Matisse
R170In this richly illustrated study, Lawrence Gowing takes us through Matisse’s career, assessing the lifetime of arduous labor that culminated in the apparent spontaneity of his color and ease of his imagery, and in the formidable intelligence of his compositions.
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Morocco: A Sense of Place
R340Organized thematically rather than geographically, each chapter reflects one of the travellers abiding impressions: the vibrant colours of the souks and textiles; the hubbub of its city streets; the country’s natural phenomena and more.
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Movements in Art Since 1945 (New Edition)
R200This classic account of the history of the visual arts from the end of World War II to the new millennium has now been completely rewritten, revised, expanded, and updated.
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My Favourite Animal Families
R180This book, produced specially for children aged between seven and eleven, showcases Steve Blooms perennially popular photographs of baby animals. From African plain to frozen Arctic, from mountain forest to tropical jungle, Steve Blooms camera has focused on baby bears, cheetahs, chimpanzees, elephants, giraffes, gorillas, hippos, lions, orangutans, pandas, penguins, rhinos, seals and zebras. His…
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Outsider Art :Spontaneous Alternatives
R200In this indispensable book Colin Rhodes surveys the history and reception of Outsider Art—first championed by Dubuffet and the Surrealists, now appreciated by a wide public—while providing insight into the achievements of both major figures and newly discovered artists.
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Paint with the Watercolour Masters
R200This book enables any amateur artist to explore confidently the most popular painting medium the world has ever known: watercolour.
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Painting People
R450After a century in which the range of art materials expanded to include film and photography, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has again swung back to painting. A new generation of artists is relishing the solitary, slow, subtle processes involved in painting people, preferring paint’s unique ability to distil a lifetime of events to photography’s glimpse of a frozen moment.
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Picasso
R170There have been many books about this astonishing artist, most of them written as celebrations of his creative abundance. Timothy Hilton has a more challenging purpose: to define Picasso’s achievement and his place within twentieth-century art.
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Revolution Graffiti
R200The Egyptian Revolution that began on 25 January 2011 immediately gave rise to a wave of popular political and social expression in the form of graffiti and street art, phenomena that were almost unknown in the country under the old regime.
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Roger Ballen – Asylum of the Birds
R795Roger Ballen is one of the most original image makers of the twenty-first century. Asylum of the Birds showcases his iconic photographs, which were all taken entirely within the confines of a house in a Johannesburg suburb, the location of which remains a tightly guarded secret.
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Romantic Moderns :English Writers, Artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
R300In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops.
