Novelist as a Vocation
R270Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his beautifully surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing.
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Objects in Focus: Bronze Head From Ife (British Museum)
R90Part of the British Museum’s Objects in Focus series, this compact book offers a well illustrated guide to the crowned bronze head unearthed at Ife in Nigeria in 1938.
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Out of stockOh, To Be a Painter!
R300These formally inventive texts examine the connection between the literary writer and the visual artist and are innovative in their treatment of ideas about color and modern art as experienced in picture galleries.
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Olayinka: A Woman’s View: The Life of an African Artist
R600This comprehensive overview features various photos of the artist’s work and includes interviews and personal correspondence.
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On Being An Artist
Original price was: R495.R250Current price is: R250.Few living artists can claim to have had the influence of Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941). Celebrated globally for his distinctive art, with numerous retrospectives and honors to his name, he has helped nurture generations of younger artists. In On Being an Artist, now published in paperback, Craig-Martin reflects with wit and candor on the people, ideas and events that have shaped his professional life.
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On Days Such As This
R120From the unusual opening poem (conflating birth with a car crash) to its close (an abandoned suitcase representing an entire lifetime), this book weaves its stories backwards and forwards through time and place
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ONAIR
R150A collaboration with The Trinity Sessions and The Johannesburg Civic Theatre. This compilation explores public artworks in Johannesburg.
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Once Removed: Short Stories
R220“Once Removed is for readers who are familiar with the worlds of art and performance, and those for whom it is completely foreign. A reader doesn’t need to be immersed in the world of artists, critics, exhibitors, gallerists or academics to access the collection, and to enjoy the imbalances, precarity, hilarity, and possibilities represented in it,” explains Mann.
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One Step at a Time
R140Take this journey with multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer Gregory Maqoma as he reminds us that our dreams can take you on extraordinary adventures.
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Ouma’s Autumn
R185Based on historical fact, it tells the poignant story of a little girl and her Ouma who experience removal from their suburb when it is proclaimed ‘white’ under apartheid’s Group Areas Act.
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Packaging Design
R450The third volume in this series is on packaging design and features carefully selected products that showcase the innovative use of a particular material. The book focuses on specific categories of packaging – sustainable packaging, functional forms, dispensing systems, advanced protection, interactive and mass craft. Seven specially commissioned `visual narratives’ are included. The extensive illustrated materials directory contains detailed information on over 100 materials.
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Painting then for now. fragments of Tiepolo at the Ca’ Dolfin
R600Painting Then For Now is a collaboration between an art historian, a painter and a photographer who are rediscovering the modernism in Giambattista Tiepolo’s work.
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Pangolin Prophecy
R195We follow Kgaga, the pangolin, and learn about her habits, her environment and the dangers she faces.
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Pangolins: Scales of Injustice
R230Smuggled into China and sold for meat in the live-animal markets of cities such as Wuhan, the pangolin has dominated world headlines. Is it the vector for Covid-19?
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Patterns (Hardback)
R650‘Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But ‘reduce’ is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications. I can’t verbalize what I am working on: to me, it is many-layered by definition; it is what is more important, what is more true’ – Gerhard Richter
