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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Out of stockPainting 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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Paul Gauguin – Artist of Myth and Dream
R800An exceptional monograph-catalogue revealing the innovative drive in Gauguin’s work. This catalogue offers a unique opportunity to view Gauguin’s entire artistic development from his early impressionist works to his final masterpieces painted on the Marquesas Islands where the artist went in search of an Arcadian kingdom “of ecstasy, peace and art, far from the typical European struggle for money”.
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Paul Simon :Lyrics 1964-2008
Original price was: R400.R180Current price is: R180.landmark compilation of popular music, this collection contains Paul Simon’s lyrics from his first album in 1964 to the present, now with 2016’s Stranger to Stranger.
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Paula Rego: Printmaker
R200There are two central pillars to an understanding of Paula Rego the artist. Firstly that she is pre eminently a draughts-woman of extraordinary range, both stylistically and emotionally, and secondly that she is the quintessential storyteller. Together, these two attributes make printmaking a highly appropriate medium within which to explore her fertile and often dark…
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Personal Affects: Power and Politics in Contemporary South African Art Vol. 2
R200This 128-page supplement to the Personal Affects catalogue features photographs and an essay documenting the exhibition and performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Museum for African Art, New York.
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Peter Blake’s ABC
R180British Pop artist Peter Blake has an eye for the quirky and the overlooked. Best known for designing the cover of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Blake has never stopped working. This charming ABC is composed from the extensive collection of objects and ephemera he has gathered in his studio during his long…
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Photoshop for Lightroom Users
R600Anyone who uses Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for image management, editing, and workflow knows it is great software, and it has only gotten better with each new version. But there comes a time in every Lightroom user’s life when they want to do something…and they just can’t do it. While Lightroom covers the vast majority of a photographer’s needs–many say it covers roughly 80% of a professional imaging workflow–it just can’t do everything a shooter needs to put the final touches on a great image.
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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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Picasso: Life with Dora Maar – Love and War 1935-1945 (Catalogue)
R750Dora Maar, born Henriette Theodora Markovitch in 1907, was a talented artist in her own right. While studying painting, she soon found a passion and gift for photography, and became a prominent member of the Surrealist movement. This catalogue traces her relationship with Picasso, from the time of their first meeting in late 1935 through 1937. Picasso expert Anne Baldassari demonstrates how those years were critical for both artists, and how their interaction provided mutual inspiration through the mid-1940s.
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Out of stockPortraits of African Writers
R300This is a stunning collection of more than 100 portraits, in black and white, of writers and, in particular, South Africa.
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Primitivism and modern art
A fascination with the primitive lies at the heart of some of the most influential developments in Western art produced between 1890 and 1950 – a time that witnessed both the heroic period of modern art and the decline of Western colonial power. This work is an overview of this period.
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Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa
R150An essential guide to this important aspect of South African art, this book provides a comprehensive overview of printmaking in South Africa, replacing the now outdated monograph by F. L. Alexander.
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Production for Graphic Designers – 5th Edition
Original price was: R360.R200Current price is: R200.Computer technology has completely revolutionized the work of graphic designers, printers, and print production. To keep pace with these far-reaching changes, Production for Graphic Designers is set firmly in the digital age.
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Romanticism
R250Around 1800, philosophers, writers, and artists revolted against rationalism, spreading a new “romantic” vision—one that believed in the goodness of humanity, the divine spirit of nature, and that saw the artist as an individual creator. This comprehensive introduction gathers an essay situating the genre across different regions, crisp reproductions, and detailed interpretations of 31 crucial pieces. For more information…
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Rosenfeld’s Lives
R200Fame, Oblivion and the Fury of Writing Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a genius upon the publication of his luminescent novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. Yet when felled by a heart attack at the…
