Kathe Kollwitz: A Retrospective
R1375An extraordinary gathering of rare drawings, prints and sculptures focusing on themes of motherhood, grief and resistance.
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Kehinde Wiley : Painter of the Epic
R680‘Kehinde Wiley: Painter of the Epic’ at Centre d’art La Malmaison, Cannes is the first major survey of the African-American artist’s work in France. Curated by Numa Hambursin, the exhibition brings together almost thirty works to demonstrate the complex visual vocabulary that has guided Wiley’s practice for over a decade. Amongst the works on display are significant paintings from the artist’s acclaimed ‘The World Stage’ series.
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Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation
R500This new book considers all aspects of Kenneth Clark’s life and work, including his landmark TV series, Civilization.
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Kevin Brand – Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Art Projects in Public Space 2008
R220A first monographic catalogue is devoted to Kevin Brand the prizewinner of the Mercedes-Benz Art Award for South African Art Projects in Public Space 2008.
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King of Dust: Adventures in Forgotten Sculpture
R300King of Dust follows a year of these wanderings, being both an archaeology of the images and a meditation on learning the craft. Ultimately it is about the power of medieval art to transform a life.
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L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
R625Like most of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is temporary and runs for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. Carried out in close collaboration with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the historic structure is wrapped in recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue and recyclable red rope. The project is the posthumous realisation of a long-held dream for Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who first drew up plans to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in 1961 while renting a small room near the monument.
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Leonardo 1452 – 1519: The Design of the World
Original price was: R1320.R660Current price is: R660.This volume represents a unique opportunity to admire and understand Leonardo’s extraordinary complexity as an artist, painter, and sketcher, and, in part, his work as a scientist and technologist.
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Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
R900Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art provides a fascinating overview of this intriguing artist’s rich body of work. The author considers Carrington’s preoccupation with alchemy and the occult, and explores the influence of indigenous Mexican culture and beliefs on her production.
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Life-Line Knot: Six Object Biography
R230A collection of esays about objects in the collection at Wits Art Museum, based on research by postgraduate History of Art students at the University of the Witwatersrand and their lecturers: Joni Brenner, Laura De Becker, Stacey Vorster and Justine Wintjes. This book accompanies the exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery.
“A particularly exciting and important aspect of this project is the reinvigoration of art history in a South African context. Through the association with Wits Art Museum, students have the privilege of doing original research with objects, of seeking links across disciplines and time-frames, and of finding new paths beyond western-tradition art historical practice” Anonymous peer reviewer
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Light, TATE
R600A remarkable exploration of the use of light in art from the last 200 years Light has been an enduring subject in art. In every conceivable media, artists have exploited the contrasts between light and dark, opposed cool and warm colors, drawn on science, and attempted to capture the transient effects of light and its…
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Out of stockListening to a Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke
R1500Originally published by the Standard Bank as part of a curated exhibition in May 2011, this prestigious volume celebrates the life and works of Peter Clarke (1929-2014), one of South Africa’s foremost artists.
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Listening to a Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke (signed)
R2500Originally published by the Standard Bank as part of a curated exhibition in May 2011, this prestigious volume celebrates the life and works of Peter Clarke (1929-2014), one of South Africa’s foremost artists.
A mere 500 copies were originally published, all taken up at the exhibition.Signed by Philippa Hobbs, November 2014.
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Living with Leonardo
R310In an engaging personal narrative interwoven with historical research, Martin Kemp discusses a life spent immersed in the world of Leonardo, and his encounters with great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors, pseudo-historians and fantasists. He shares how he has grappled with swelling legions of ‘Leonardo loonies’, walked on the eggshells of vested interests in academia and museums, and fended off fusillades of non-Leonardos, sometimes more than one a week. Examining the greatest masterpieces, from the Last Supper to Salvator Mundi, through the expert’s eye, we learn first-hand of the thorny questions that surround attribution, the scientific analyses that support the experts’ interpretations, and the continuing importance of connoisseurship.
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Logo Life: Life histories of 100 famous logos
R130In the book Logo Life. Life histories of 100 famous logos, you can read the short histories of the Apple logo and 99 other logos for world-famous brands, seeing all the little steps and great leaps in the visual evolution of these logos, as well as some of their most iconic uses in brand advertising.
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Lorna Simpson: Revised & Expanded Edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)
Original price was: R1485.R740Current price is: R740.This landmark book documents Simpson’s career in its entirety, up to her most recent work – Simpson’s portrait of Rihanna for the January 2021 cover of Essence has been deemed as one of the most iconic fashion images ever made by a panel of experts in The New York Magazine.
