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| Johannesburg 011 447-0627 / 011 880-5648 • Cape Town 021 685-0676 • New York 212 255-3094 | |||
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.
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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South African Art Now
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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Robin Rhode: Who Saw Who
Born in South Africa in 1976, Berlin-based Robin Rhode uses the barest of means to comment on urban poverty, the politics of leisure and the commodification of youth cultures. Drawing plays a crucial role in his inventive, witty and playful performances, photographs and video animations, which are often created on the street, and entail Rhode, [...]
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Art and the End of Apartheid
In Art and the End of Apartheid, John Peffer considers in-depth the work of black South African artists in the decades leading up to the end of apartheid in 1994. Peffer examines painting and graphic art, photography, avant-garde and performance art, and popular and protest art through artist collectives, such as the Thupelo Art Project [...]
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TAXI Art Films: Spier Contemporary 2007
Film director Revel Fox spent time gathering footage of various artists and their work during the installation of Spier Contemporary 2007 toward what will be the second and third DVDs in a series of Taxi Art Films to be produced by David Krut Publishing.
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Spier Contemporary 2007
Spier Contemporary opened at the Johannesburg Art Gallery on Saturday 15 March. The show was housed in a series of shipping containers at the Spier wine estate in Stellenbosch but now fills the spacious rooms of the JAG. Those fortunate enough to have seen the show in Cape Town should not miss its Joburg run: [...]
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Performance Art: From Futurism to Present
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Boyle Family
Boyle Family have worked together for more than 30 years producing an art that scrutinises and replicates fragments of reality. Mark Boyle and Joan Hills began making assemblages in the early 1960s. In 1964 they started their life-long project Journey to the
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The Passing: Bill Viola
“Rarely, if ever, has video been so visionary in its mood, so poetic in its language and so powerful in its emotional impact:” (Steven Bode)
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