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More than any British artist of his generation, Julian Opie has taken his art beyond the gallery environment and out into the mainstream of cultural life, testing his ideas in a wide variety of media. Author Mary Horlock surveys his career, beginning with the early painted metal sculptures of everyday objects, encompassing the 3-D evocations of the urban landscape, and finishing with the powerful graphic style evolved in recent years that has transferred to billboard posters, road signs, LED screens and album covers.
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R1050One of the most important protagonists of contemporary British art for more than two decades, Julian Opie’s prints and editions will be fully documented in a new 280 page Catalogue Raisonne, to publish in June 2011 and coinciding with a major retrospective at the Alan Cristea Gallery (9 June – 9 July 2011).
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R450With more than 40 pages of new material including illustrations and unpublished sketches, this book illuminates Julie Taymor’s entire career, from her theatrical apprenticeship to her most recent work for stage and screen.
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R450Just Love Me–with its title taken directly from a late 90s neon sign by Tracey Emin–reveals how complex and differentiated female identity constructions have become today.
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R600Painter, book illustrator, graphic artist and son of a well-known family, Francois Krige was a reclusive man. Many of his paintings, beautiful and evocative, were discovered after his death and reproduced for the first time in this book.
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R200Bring the magic and charm of the wild to your table! From the enchanting series of Kachoo comes this gorgeous crockery set featuring the beloved paintings of artist Frans Groenewald. The perfect children’s gift for any occasion, this collection is guaranteed to delight any and all young Kachoo adventurers. Collect all 6 titles.
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R250The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art.
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R120Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work.
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition Kate McCrickard: Kid at David Krut Projects, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 816, New York, NY, March 28 – May 18, 2013.
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R120A fascinating, in-depth look at the iconic and enigmatic Kate Moss, perhaps the most famous fashion model in the world. Author Christian Salmon insightfully unravels the mystery that is Moss, exploring how both the look and the persona that have continually shifted and changed in perfect sync with the zeitgeist.
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Katharina Fritsch is one of the most important artists to have emerged in Europe in the last twenty years. Ranging from the clossal to the miniature, her sculptures and installations bring to life images that already exist in our imaginations.
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R300This was a survey exhibition of the ceramics made by Katherine Glenday since graduating with a degree in ceramics and fine art in the 1980s.
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R150This exhibition seeks to look at the disillusion which many Black South Africans face with the advent of democracy. “A disillusion which [we] are complacent about, especially those of us who are privileged… It is this complacency that Urbanation seeks to tear asunder, though be it in the most poetic of ways.”
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R180Kartscher’s work portrays fantasy worlds for contemporary women.
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R280Presenting a superb account of a man characterized by his reticence, this biography offers rare and thorough insight into the life of one of South Africa’s most powerful men: Kgalema Motlanthe. From Motlanthe’s ancestral family to his political awakenings as he discovered the African National Congress, this account traces Motlanthe’s political path to becoming the third president of the Republic of South Africa.
