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Gary Hume makes beautiful paintings. His materials are household paints on aluminium surfaces and his subjects, are “flora, fauna and portraits.” The results are elegant, delicate, simple yet elusive and exquisite. Playing gloriously with colour and light, they are paintings of subtle tones, idiosyncratic clashes and insistent reflections.
Interviewed in his studio, Gary Hume reflects [...]

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Unknown Author, English, Multimedia, DVD, Pal, 26 mins, ISBN: 9785060033832493

   
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Hamish Fulton describes himself as a “walking artist”. For more than thirty years he has undertaken demanding walks in many parts of the world, and drawn on his experience to create distinctive artworks using text, graphics and photographs. He aims to “leave no trace” in the landscape, and he acknowledges that his art cannot [...]

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Unknown Author, English, Multimedia, DVD, Pal, 26 mins, ISBN: 9785060033836293,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

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Painter, graphic artist, photographer, stage designer, writer – David Hockney is one of the most versatile and significant artists of our time. The British artist’s international breakthrough came in the mid 60s with his homoerotic shower scenes and paintingsof sun-speckled Californian swimming pools. In later works as well, the artist proved himself a keen observer [...]

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Consumerism, glamour, disasters and mass media – Andy Warhol’s art is a mirror image of America. Son of Slovakian immigrants, he rose, with his Campbell’s Soup Cans and silk-screen-duplicated Marilyn, to become a Pop Art icon. His blond wig and eccentri lifestyle, and the wild goings-on at his legendary Factory became his trademarks. He turned [...]

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Author: Kim Evans, 5 languages, Multimedia, DVD, 77 minutes, ISBN: 9783939873242,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

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Ian Davenport’s 48 metre long painting Poured Lines: Southwark Street transforms the tunnel beneath the railway bridge close to Tate Modern. The painting’s numerous vitreous enamel panels were created in a German factory where they were baked at fearsomely high temperatures. This film follows the artist as he creates this remarkable public artwork.
Like all Ian [...]

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Unknown Author, English, Multimedia, DVD, Pal, 26 mins, ISBN: 9785060033836897,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

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Illuminations is a dynamic and innovative producer of cultural content for multimedia. Illuminations films produce art cinema, features, long-form documentaries, and artist’ films and videos for gallery installations, and is an ideal resource for a wide [...]

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London Orbital is an extraordinary and visionary film by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair about the world’s largest by-pass, the M25. London Orbital is a road movie, a cinematic excursion into the futuristic literature of a century past, and a film dialogue between two writers who are also filmmakers (and vice versa).

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Unknown Author, English, Multimedia, Dvd;PAL; widescreen; running time: 100 minutes, ISBN: 5060033831397,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

In the three centuries after the explorer Vasco de Gama first landed in India in 1492, meetings, trade and exchanges of all kinds flourished between the peoples of Europe and Asia. These encounters and the hybrid cultures that developed have left an extraordinary legacy of exquisite works of art and compelling human stories.

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Author: William Dalrymple, English, Multimedia, Dvd;PAL; widescreen; running time: 50 minutes, ISBN: 1 85177 432 7,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

Since the 1960s, when he was associated with British Pop Art, Joe Tilson has enjoyed international acclaim for the individuality and originality of his paintings, constructions, prints and multiples. All of his playful, engaging work is informed with ideas from literature, philosophy, ethnography and alchemy.

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Unknown Author, English, Monograph, DVD: PAL; Region 0; widescreen; running time: 26 min approx, ISBN: 5 060033 836699,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

Gilbert Prousch met George Passmore at St Martin’s School of Art in 1967. Since then they have famously lived and worked together as Gilbert and George, creating an extraordinary body of provocative artworks.

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Unknown Author, English, Monograph, Pal, region 0, wide screen, running time 26 minutes approx, ISBN: 5 060033 83509 8,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00