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After years of teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns…
The Sotho tradition of decorating the outside of their houses with painted and engraved patterns and pebbles set into plaster is fast disappearing. Less well-known than the Ndebele mural art, it is a particularly beautiful form of vernacular architectural decoration. Some examples of this traditional art form are featured here, as well as a number of examples of later Sotho mural art
Benjamin Pogrund, a foremost journalist in the struggle against apartheid and in more recent years an ardent worker for peace and social concern in Israel, brings to this study peerless qualifications for comparing the controversial historical experience of South Africa and Israel.
“I had five paternal uncles, four in South Africa and one in India. For some reason, each uncle had a son named Ebrahim. What a stupid idea. It made me feel like a sausage from a boerewors factory.”
In March / May 2008 a curated exhibition of South African sculptor Edoardo Villa’s work, entitled Changing Worlds, was presented at the Nirox Sculpture Park, Cradle of Humankind.
This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of new work by El Anatsui at David Krut Projects, New York. The book features the artist’s work and an interview. El Antsui’s extraordinary, large-scale “cloths” made from metal bottle tops and recycled materials have found their way into several major collections in Europe…
Out of stockCatalogue showcasing some of the major works in the Standard Bank Collection of African Art held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Issues dealt with in the illuminating texts include: Military and missionary modernity, transformed modernities and traditional forms in modern materials.
The legendary Eoan Group has performed opera, ballet and drama since the 1930s. The group was the first amateur company in South Africa to perform dance, theatre and grand opera often to packed houses in Cape Town’s best concert halls.
Through extensive interviews with former members, and rich visual and archival material (from the archive now housed in the Documentation Centre for Music at Stellenbosch University), this book, the first on the history of the Eoan group, makes a unique contribution to South African music history. It illustrates not only how difficult it was for…
Out of stockThese extremely rare prints, most of them made by Cole himself and most never previously exhibited, form the core of this exhibion and book. This book tells the story of Ernest Cole’s life, both in his own words and through the reminiscences and writings of those people who knew him personally and professionally.
Exorcising the Demons Within makes sense of recent anti-outsider violence by situating it within an extended history of South African statecraft that both produced the conditions for the attacks and has been reshaped by it.
Let children jump into the lively and flourishing local art scene, see it in full colour, learn about the diverse paths of the artists and their fascinating artworks. In time your little wonder will soon have found their own South African art hero to look up to!
Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the removal of the ban on the African National Congress; founded a century ago and outlawed in 1960, it had transferred its headquarters abroad and opened what it termed an External Mission.
This book documents and exhibition of contemporary Japanese artists who are active at the cutting edge of the global fiber-art movement, transforming fabrics into sculptures, pictures, emulations of nature, or even abstract meditations on memory and identity.
Foam Along the Waterline is a catalogue published to accompany Virginia MacKenny’s solo exhibition of paintings and etchings at the University of Cape Town Irma Stern Museum in September/October 2008.
This book is as much about the author’s concerns that a generation who have only known freedom will forget or never even understand the great price it took top gain our freedom, as it is about the men and women, the often forgotten heroes and heroines who showed their ultimate commitment to their ideals.
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