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Out of stockSouth Africa: the art of a nation explores the history of South Africa through a selection of its artworks, playing particular attention not only to their relationship to one another, but also to their connections to key episodes in the nation’s evolution.
A report on the primary art market in South Africa that examines the structure and regional differences between Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa’s art capitals.
An open space where poetry matters. Stanzas is a quarterly for new poetry to suit all moods. It provides a platform for established and emerging poets to share their most recent work and affirm poetry’s important place in our lives. “The sound must seem an echo of the sense.”
Stanzas publishes new and translated poems in English, and reviews of new collections published in South Africa. It provides a platform for both established and emerging poets to share their recent work and so affirm the place in our lives.
“…think of the caterpillar as the poet, and think of the chrysalis as the book, and think of the butterfly as what happens when the reader can act with the poem.” – Margaret Atwood
“For him [Milan Kundera], the novel was the highest form of aesthetic endeavor, a kind of anti-scripture representing the sensibility of the individual, containing “an outlook, a wisdom, a position… that would rule out identification with any politics, any religion, any ideology, any moral doctrine, any group.” – David Samuels
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This catalogue accompanies Steven Cohen’s first exhibition at Stevenson Johannesburg – an intense meditation on loss, grief and absence, following the death of his partner and artistic collaborator, the dancer Elu.
Stevie Smith had a unique literary voice: her idiosyncratic, wonderfully funny and poignant poems established her as one of the most individual of English modern poets. She claimed her own life was ‘precious dull’, but Frances Spalding’s acclaimed biography, revised with a new introduction for this centenary edition, reveals a far from conventional woman.
This collection of 40 essays by Ashraf Jamal can be regarded as a companion to his previous book, In the World: Essays on Contemporary South African Art. Together, they form a single venture to celebrate and entrench the rich complexity of South African artists in a global imaginary.
Combative, volatile, constantly on the verge of exploding, Dwayne and Shanell Combrink are two halves of a white South African working-class couple, when Namhla Gumede, born on 16 June 1976, arrives on their doorstep. A smouldering dark comedy suddenly leads to startling revelations, rage and recrimination
As the 2020 US Presidential race takes shape, Surviving Autocracy provides an indispensable overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past few years. Drawing on her Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, acclaimed New Yorker journalist and prize-winning author Masha Gessen links together seemingly disparate elements of Trump’s regime to offer a roadmap for understanding Trump’s approach, policies and ultimate aims. Highlighting an inventory of ravages to liberal democracy, including the corrosion of the media, the justice system and cultural norms, she posits that America is in the throws of an autocratic attempt.
Set in the past, present, and future, this progression of three tales holds a message that is relevant in each era. These thought-provoking stories pose questions focusing on the promotion of greed being endemic within each society and being accepted as the norm.
Out of stockTen Years of Collecting (1979-1989), David Hammond-Tooke and Anitra Nettleton, softcover, published by the University of the Witwatersrand, 1989, tearing, creasing and wear to cover, shelf wear.
Makhosazana Xaba, with several collections and anthologies to her name, is at the forefront of a poetry that embraces penetrating socio-political insight with highly emotional responses to the love and pain that our country provides in such abundance.
The book draws on first-hand accounts by major role players about the contentious relationship between capital and the ANC before, during and after the country’s transition to democracy.
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