Print & Pattern: Geometric
R440The latest book based on the popular Print & Pattern website, Print & Pattern: Geometric celebrates beautiful surface designs, patterns, and motifs made from geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, hexagons, etc.
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The latest book based on the popular Print & Pattern website, Print & Pattern: Geometric celebrates beautiful surface designs, patterns, and motifs made from geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, hexagons, etc.
An 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of South African art, this book provides a comprehensive overview of printmaking in South Africa, replacing the now outdated monograph by F. L. Alexander.
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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Following the enormous success of Words and Pictures and Beyond the Page, this third volume continues a narrative of visual adventures of unusual diversity.
Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London’s East End. Monument is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet she also frequently works on a
Born in London in 1963, Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain’s most exciting contemporary artists. Her work is characterised by its use of industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal. With these she casts the surfaces and volume in and around everyday objects and architectural space, creating evocative sculptures that range from the intimate to the monumental.
From the ashes of a repressive, segregated, and racist state, a multi-racial nation miraculously emerged, one of the greatest success stories of the African continent. And so began Per-Anders Pettersson’s love affair with South Africa.
Design and layout of a major book accompanying the inaugural exhibition at Norval Foundation, Re/discovery and Memory: The works of Sydney Kumalo, Ezrom Legae, Serge Alain Nitegeka and Edoardo Villa, curated by Karel Nel, 28 April – 10 September 2018.
Retrospectives of the work of both Sydney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae were shown alongside an exhibition of their friend and colleague Edoardo Villa, while Serge Alain Nitegeka was commissioned to create an immersive installation in the atrium.
Adam Habib, the most prominent and outspoken university official through the recent student protests, takes a characteristically frank view of the past three years on South Africa’s campuses in this new book. This book is both an attempt at a historical account and a thoughtful reflection on the issues the protests kicked up, from the perspective not only of a high-ranking member of university management, but also Habib as political scientist with a background as an activist during the struggle against apartheid.
A revolution in visual culture 1905 – 1955.
In exploring the intersection of art, politics and society, few collections in the world can compare with the David King collection. David King (1943-2016) was not only a passionate collector, but also an artist, designer and historian. Over a lifetime he amassed one of the world’s largest collections of Soviet political art and photographs. Every step of the Soviet journey is documented in visual media, photomontage, photographs, paintings, handwritten notes, books (signed with annotations and marginalia), enclosures and ephemera.
For decades, commentators have acknowledged Andy Warhol’s phenomenal impact on contemporary art. Unlike the many existing books about the artist, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years is the first full-scale exploration of his tremendous reach across several generations of artists who in key ways respond to his groundbreaking work. Examining in depth the nature of…
Following the success of 2005’s groundbreaking book and exhibition “reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow 2005-2025,” “reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today” turns the spotlight yet again on the next generation of photography’s potential stars. Through over 200 images, this remarkable survey–the only anthology of its kind–showcases the inspiring creativity and ingenuity of 80 up-and-coming photographic artists.
The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as the dominant power in Europe is at odds with much of its recent history.
Although the African National Congress (ANC) has been in power now for 20 years and looks set to continue in office for some time yet, its hold on power is neither permanent nor assured, and sometime in the future it is safe to say it will be voted out of office.
From a grand sandstone mansion rescued from dilapidation in the scrubby Free State veld, to a romantic Arts & Crafts style double-storey that presides over a halfacre of prime real estate in the high Berea suburb of Durban, Remarkable Heritage Houses of South Africa provides a privileged glimpse inside 20 of the country’s most distinguished, remarkable and treasured private residences.
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