The new catalogue to accompany the Tate Britain retrospective exhibition: 27 January – 16 May 2010.
Edited by Judith Nesbitt with contributions by Okwui Enwezor, Ekow Eshun and Atillah Springer.
The British painter Chris Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968 and is one of the most notable painters of his generation. He lives and works in [...]

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Author: Edited by Judith Nesbitt with contributions by Okwui Enwezor, Ekow Eshun and Atillah Springer, English, Monograph, Softcover, 255x210mm, full colour, 176pp

American artist Julie Mehretu is celebrated for her large-scale paintings and drawings that layer abstract forms with familiar architectural imagery. Inspired by a multiyude of sources, including historical photographs, urban-planning grids, modernist structures and graffiti, these semi-abstract works explore the intersections of power, history, dystopia and the built environment, and transcommunal identities. This volume marks [...]

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Author: Julie Mehretu, Joann Young, Brian Dillon, English, Monograph, Softcover, 280x228mm, full colour, 128pp, ISBN: 9780892073962,
Price: (ZA)R 495

Top-shelf magazine meets fine art. High-heeled, fetishistic women parade through a world of Matissean colour. Allen Jones’s use of these apparent stereotypes has made him a controversial figure in the art world. Tackling issues of gender and power raised by his work, and including images of Jones’s source material and his own photography, this is [...]

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Author: Andrew Lambirth, English, Monograph, Softcover, Jacket, 290x245mm, full colour, 160pp, ISBN: 9781903973219,
Price: (ZA)R 550

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and moved to New York City in 1938. She is considered to be one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings, monumental installations, and graphic work form a polymorphic ensemble that defies any singular aesthetic classification. Bourgeois applies this rich diversity [...]

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Author: Marie-Laure Bernadac, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 285x215mm, full colour, 208pp, ISBN: 9782080305534,
Price: (ZA)R 450

A major figure in contemporary art, John Baldessari is widely considered one of the most influential artists to emerge since the mid-1960s. From his early text-and-image paintings to his more recent photo collages and installations, Baldessari has continued to make art that addresses the social impact of mass culture, often playfully through strategies of appropriation [...]

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Author: John Baldessari, English, Multimedia, Sofcover, 300x255mm, Black and white, colour,329pg,, ISBN: 9781854378224,
Price: (ZA)R 510.00

William Turnbull is one of Britain’s most distinguished sculptors and painters. In the late 1940s he studied art in London and then spent time in Paris, and ever since he has rigorously explored a limited number of archetypal forms as well the fundamentals of art’s languages.
Over more than fifty years William Turnbull has returned again [...]

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Unknown Author, English, Multimedia, DVD, PAL, 26 minutes, ISBN: 5060033833698,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

Described by international curator Okwui Enwezor as “one of the most dynamic and vigorous spaces of artistic practice”, contemporary South African art is an exciting, emerging scene that is attracting the attention of international museums, curators, and collectors today.

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Author: Sue Williamson, English, Art General, Hardcover, 320pp,, ISBN: 9781770097216,
Price: (ZA)R 695.00

Norman Catherine was born in East London in September 1949. In 1969 he held his first solo exhbition consisting of oil paintings on wood, bone, wire and an assortment of found objects.
His art has since undergone several metamorphses, from the pristine airbrush paintings of the 70s to the frenzied, ritualistic mixed media works of the early [...]

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Author: David Bowie, Hazel Friedman, Ashraf Jamal, English, Monograph, Softcover, 285x250mm, 182pp, full colour, ISBN: 9780620249706, LOC: JHB,
Price: (ZA)R 350.00

“Anyone who directly and genuinely renders what drives him to create is one of us,” proclaimed the manifesto of Die Brucke (The Bridge), a close-knit group of artists who first met in Dresden in 1905. Its founding members were four Jugendstil architecture students: Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Eschewing the [...]

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Author: Reinhold Heller, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 231pp , 290x240mm,, ISBN: 987 3775723510,
Price: (ZA)R 660.00

Victoria Finlay has worked for Reuters and was the arts editor of the South China Morning Post for four and a half years before leaving to write this book.  She writes regularly about arts and travel for Hong Kong newspapers and international media.

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Author: Victoria Finaly, English, NonArt, Softcover, 448pp, 205x140mm, ISBN: 978 0812971422,
Price: (ZA)R 160.00