Accompanying the Tate Liverpool exhibition, this book examines the intriguing relationship between renowned British artist Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, one of the most subversive sculptors of the 20th century. Having seen Tate’s 1982 Tinguely retrospective while still a student, Landy has drawn inspiration from the artist for some of his most well known works, [...]

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Author: Laurence Sillars, English, Art General, Hardcover, Jacket, black and white, 260x220mm, 144pp, ISBN: 9781854379191,
Price: (ZA)R 320

The Russian Revolution instigated some of the most startling advances in the fields of art, photography and graphic design seen in the twentieth century; their impact on the development of modernism was immeasurable and is still felt today. Through an amazing array of material including posters, photographs, paintings, magazine covers, book jackets, advertisements, pamphlets and [...]

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Author: David King, English, Art General, Hardcover, 290x245mm, 352pp, 550 full colour, black and white, ISBN: 9781854376862,
Price: (ZA)R 550.00

Aleksandr Rodchenko and Liubov Popova were leading figures in the Russian avant-garde during its most exciting period, from the 1917 revolution to Popova’s tragically early death 1924 at the age of thirty-five.

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Author: Margarita Tupitsyn, English, Art General, Softcover, 275 x 230mm, 195pp, colour illustrations, ISBN: 978 1854377968,
Price: (ZA)R 495.00

How many times have read the caption next to a work of art or a review of a contemporary art exhibition and found yourself none the wiser?  For many, the language in which modern art is described can be s mystifying as the art itself.This comprehensive, pocket-sized guide holds the answers. Each term, from the [...]

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Author: Simon Wilson and Jessica Lack, English, Art General , Softcover, 237pp, 215 x 135mm, B&W illustrations, ISBN: 97885437500,
Price: (ZA)R 220.00

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) remains one of the most popular artists of the early 20th century. His sensual, ornate paintings, often charged with eroticism and embellished with gold, have been widely reproduced on book jackets and as best-selling posters, and are familiar to many who know little of the man who made them. Published to accompany [...]

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Author: Edited by Tobias G. Natter and Christoph Grunenberg, English, Monograph, Softcover, 295 x 235 mm, 256 pages, colour illustrations, ISBN: 978 1854377357,
Price: (ZA)R 500.00

        Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) is widely considered to be one of the most important artists to have emerged from Britain in the last hundred years. In the early 1920s he first saw Cubist paintings and began producing Cubist-influenced works: other informative influences included the Cornish naive painter Alfred Wallis; the sculptor Barbara [...]

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Author: Edited by Chris Stephens, English, Monograph , Softcover, 249 x 189 mm, 128 pages, illustrations, ISBN: 978 1854377401,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

Alex Coles has coined the term ‘DesignArt’ from Matisse to Murakami, ranging across media including painting, textile design, furniture and architecture, this pioneering study traces the course of a previously uncharted area of art history.

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Author: Alex Coles, English, Multimedia , Softcover, 268 x 209 mm, 144 pp, oolour illustration and b&w, ISBN: 978 854375202,
Price: (ZA)R 380.00

‘This is easily the best introduction to Turner that I have read … The Turner that emerges is entirely congenial and transfixing’ – Professor Kathleen Nicholson, author of Turner’s Classical Landscapes: Myth and Meaning J.M.W.Turner was a fascinating and enigmatic figure.Both astonishingly prolific and extraordinarily innovative, he is widely seen as the greatest British landscape [...]

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Author: Sam Smiles, English, Art General, softcover, 244 pages, 246 x 189 mm, illustrations, ISBN: 978 1854375728,
Price: (ZA)R 340.00

From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s witnessed a return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims of beauty, in reaction [...]

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Author: Edited by Diarmuid Costello and Dominic Willsdon, English, Art General , softcover, 256 pages, 234 x 156 mm, 40 black and white illustrations, ISBN: 978 1854376589,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

Street Art – art made in public spaces and including graffiti, stickers, poster art, stencil art and wheat-pasting, but not corporate-sponsored advertising or “public art” – has become one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art practice on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graffiti writing tradition of the 1980s, through [...]

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Author: Cedar Lewisohn, English, Multimedia, Softcover, 270 x 210 mm, 144 pages, 60 colour illlustrations, ISBN: 978 1 85437 767 8,
Price: (ZA)R 200.00 (R300 Hardcover)