The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez
R380An 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.
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The View
R250In 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.
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The Walt Disney Film Archives. The Animated Movies 1921–1968. 40th Ed.
Original price was: R750.R675Current 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.
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Out of stockThe Whole Picture
R250From 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.
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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.
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Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi: Gymnasium
R250The 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:
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Theo Eshetu: Till Death Us Do Part
R1200Groundbreaking upon its release in 1987, Till Death Us Do Part is a 20-screen video-wall installation made by British/Ethiopian artist Theo Eshetu.
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Out of stockThinking With Type
R300The 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.
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This Is Shakespeare : How to Read the World’s Greatest Playwright
R230This 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.
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Thokozani the Eland
R160With a magical blend of folklore, compassion and harmony, this story celebrates the interconnectedness of all beings and the power of working together for a better world. This story weaves together spirituality, African history and environmental consciousness to craft a tale that demonstrates the power of community and consideration for others.
Also available in isiZulu and isiXhosa. (If you would like a copy in one of these languages, please email us at [email protected])
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
R225In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her abusive husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which have opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have pushed against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
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Out of stockThree Daughters of Eve
R185On a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party – a night of luxury a far cry from her upbringing. But when her handbag is stolen her world shifts violently. She starts to doubt how she got here: a traumatic Istanbul childhood, student years in Oxford, the rebellious professor who led her and best friends Shirin and Mona to question everything – Islam, love, life, even God – and the scandal that tore them all apart.
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Three Plays
Craig Higginson’s first three plays for adult audiences – collected here in one volume – represent one of the strongest debuts in contemporary South African theatre. Although each can be seen as a variation on the theme of the post-apartheid state of the nation play, they are also engaged with realities in Zimbabwe, the Congo and contemporary Europe. Higginson’s experience of growing up in wartorn Zimbabwe and apartheid South Africa have given him a deep-rooted and potent angle from which to dramatize a dialogue between Europe and Africa.
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Three radio plays
R150Band of Brothers travels back and forth in time over a period of twelve years to unravel a sex scandal in a boys’ school. The British Maharajah and the German Rentboy bills itself as a ’fantasy woven from facts’, presented as a quasi radio documentary. Clayton Crawford, PhD is a piece of total realism, the entire action taking place over one evening, with dramatic time mimicking real time.
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Time, Conflict, Photography
R550Vividly illustrated, Conflict, Time, Photography zeroes in on war and its aftermath, highlighting the fact that time itself is a fundamental aspect of the photographic medium.
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Titian: His Life and Works in 500 Images : An illustrated exploration of the artist and his context, with a gallery of his paintings and drawings
R425The book contains a comprehensive gallery of over 300 of Titian’s major works of art, each of which is accompanied by a thorough analysis of the artwork and its significance within the context of Titian’s life, his rapidly changing technique and his body of work as a whole.
