Born in Bristol in the UK in 1965, Damien Hirst is one of the most controversial and highly regarded artists of his generation. His wideranging practice, which includes installation, painting, sculpture and drawing, challenges the boundaries between art, science and popular culture. Published to accompany Hirst’s first retrospective exhibition in the UK, staged at Tate Modern during the Olympics in 2012, this book will trace Hirst’s career from his emergence on the art scene in the late 1980s to his present status as one of the best- known artists working today.

With an introduction by curator Ann Gallagher, a new interview by Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate, and essays by curator Andrew Wilson, author and critic Brian Dillon and art historian and critic Thomas Crow, as well as shorter texts on key moments in Hirst’s career by Michael Craig-Martin and Michael Bracewell, this superbly illustrated survey is a fitting tribute to his ground-breaking achievements. Surveying 25 years of the artist’s practice, from young Turk of the British art scene to internationally respected figure, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding and appreciation of one the most significant artists of our time.

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Author: Edited by Ann Gallagher, English, Monograph, Paperback, 275mm x 230mm, 224pp, ISBN: 9781849760102,
Price: (ZA)R 400.00

Tracey Emin first came to public attention in the early 1990s and has gone on to achieve a level of visibility unparalleled for an artist in recent times. Her use of intensely personal, everyday materials gives her work an intimate quality, combining avant-garde ideas with traditions of craft. Employing a variety of media that have [...]

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Author: Neal Brown, English, Monograph, Softcover, 270 x 210mm, full colour, 126pp, ISBN: 978 1 85437 542 3,
Price: (ZA)R 195

The American Artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has worked in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, books and film, to produce art that is at once playful and profound. Based in Los Angeles since the late 1950s, he was influential in the development of Pop Art on the west coast, particularly through [...]

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Author: Mary Richards, English, Monograph, Softcover, 270 x 210mm, full colour, 126pp,
Price: (ZA)R 195

It’s not a mistake to see a shape in the cloud. That’s what it is to be alive with your eyes open; to be constantly, promiscuously, putting things together. – William Kentridge. William Kentridge is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. His work spans many genres – film, printmaking, books, tapestry, sculpture, and opera [...]

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Author: Kate McCrickard, English, Monograph, Softcover, 270 x 210 mm, full colour, 128pp, ISBN: 978 0 958 497541,
Price: (ZA)R 240

The Book with a Hole blasts a hole through the middle of the book itself. Sometimes the hole is an eye the reader can look through; sometimes it is a mouth and the reader’s fingers make the teeth! The next minute it is a plate (with food drawn by the reader on a sheet of [...]

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Author: Hervé Tullet, English, Design, Softcover, 320 x 250mm, 96pp,, ISBN: 978-1854379467,
Price: (ZA)R 150

Gabriel Orozco, born in Mexico, in 1962, is one of the most influential artists of his generation. Dividing his time between Mexico City, Paris and New York, his constant travelling has been as much a part of his artistic practice as a lifestyle. His works, often playful and characterised by an ironic humour, range from [...]

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Author: Jessica Morgan, English, New Arrival, Softcover, 128pp, 270 x 210mm, ISBN: 9781854379122,
Price: (ZA)R 195

EDITOR’S NOTE By Tod Lippy SELF-BURIAL: TELEVISION INTERFERENCE PROJECT, 1969 By Keith Arnatt EPISODE 124: THE MAKINGS OF A MELTDOWN Interview with Norman Lear by Claire Barliant ARTIST’S PROJECT: JOHAN GRIMONPREZ “Skyjackers Series,” 2010 NOT IT ANYMORE Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King on The Comeback THE LIFER Interview with Larry Auerbach THE END OF [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE By Tod Lippy ARTIST’S PROJECT: MARCIA KURE “Dressed-Up Series” ARTIST’S PROJECT: ROXY PAINE 16 Drawings ARTIST’S PROJECT: BARBARA PROBST “Exposure #56, NYC, 428 Broome St., 06.05.08, 1:42pm” ARTIST’S PROJECT: JUDY PFAFF 10-panel Foldout ARTIST’S PROJECT: KERRY JAMES MARSHALL “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye” ARTIST’S PROJECT: JOHN O’CONNOR Lottery Drawings ARTIST’S PROJECT: SUZANNE [...]

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French painter, sculptor and printmaker Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848 and died in French Polynesia in 1903. The vivid, unnaturalistic colors and bold outlines of his paintings and the strong, semi-abstract quality of his woodcuts had a profound effect on the development of twentieth-century art. But while modern art largely shunned narrative, [...]

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Author: Belinda Thomson, Tamar Garb, English, Hard Cover, 290 x 245mm, 256 pages, ISBN: 9781854378712,
Price: (ZA)R 560

The obsessions and fears of childhood are a central concern in Paula Rego’s work – the monumentality and simplicity of her images belies the complexity beneath – which makes her the perfect artist to illustrate to this elegant collection of nursery rhymes. Introduced by Marina Warner, a writer who has studied the role of myth [...]

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Author: Marina Warner, English, Hard cover,281 x 221 mm,72pp, ISBN: 9780500016497,
Price: (ZA)R 240.00