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Our bookstore is located at 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg. Our own titles as well as books from other South African and international publishers are available in the store and on this site. We are the sole distributors in southern Africa of books from Tate Publishing (UK), Assouline (USA), Nazraeli (USA). We specialise in books on contemporary art, architecture, graphic design and monographs.
Erik Laubscher – A Life In Art
Erik Laubscher studied in London and Paris and returned to South Africa in 1951 with a strong Formalist grounding. His early paintings were influenced by Post-Cubist trends and the School of Paris. His studies under Fernand Léger would prove to be important and influence his work at a later stage. Erik Laubscher has represented South [...]
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Ephraim Ngatane – A Setting Apart
Cecil Skotnes said that Ngatane “put his thumbprint on the history of South African art”. In the course of his short-lived but illustrious career, Ngatane made a marked impression on the art of the 1950s and 1960s, creating artworks that captured the essence of township living and conveyed emotion and depth. Ngatane studied under Skotnes [...]
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Picasso: Peace and Freedom
Picasso: Peace and Freedom reveals a radically different figure from the one often presented in art historical accounts. In it we meet a politically and socially engaged artist, who joined the French Communist Party in October 1944 and remained a member until his death in 1973. Actively engaged in the Peace Movement, for which he [...]
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Haunted
Haunted – Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passe or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter and technologies, these arts can embody a [...]
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The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show
The catalogue is edited by Gianni Mercurio, with the collaboration of Elena Paloscia. This is a large monograph, in an impressive format, that brings together about one hundred and seventy paintings and drawings, and a vast array of photographic documentation, examining the work of Basquiat (New York, 1960-1988) and the context in which his art [...]
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Paint with the Watercolour Masters
Paint with the Watercolour Masters – A Step-by-step Guide to Materials and Techniques for Today’s Artists This book enables any amateur artist to explore confidently the most popular painting medium the world has ever known: watercolour. Richly illustrated in colour throughout with well-known works of art, photographs of materials and step-by-step examples, the author shows [...]
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An Artist’s Handbook – Materials and Techniques
An Artist’s Handbook – Materials and Techniques This is a practical reference book introducing basic materials and processes for a range of traditional, non-traditional, widely used and lesser-known media. It explores the process of drawing and painting and includes the techniques of encaustic, egg tempera, fresco, oil, watercolour and acrylic. The aim of the book [...]
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Eric Fischl:1970-2007
Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America’s most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl’s engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent. This volume, an expanded [...]
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Dana Schutz
Dana Schutz New York-based Dana Schutz is widely considered one of the most talented painters of her generation. American art critic Jerry Saltz has praised Schutz for her “daredevil style and anarchic freedom.” Viewed by both critics and her peers as the ultimate painter’s painter, her canvases are filled with a lush, boldly painted cast [...]
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Inside the Painter’s Studio
‘Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.’ Chuck Close Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these ‘cruder,’ more [...]
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