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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.
Pop Life: Art in a Material World
“Good business is the best art.” Andy Warhols notorious statement provides a starting point for this book, which examines the legacy of Pop art and its most celebrated exponent in the lives and work of succeeding generations of artists. Rather than shying away from the limelight, these post-Warhol artists have wholeheartedly embraced both the cult [...]
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Allen Jones – Works
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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The Keith Haring Show
Art icon of the 1980s, Keith Haring first gained attention in the late 1970s for his drawings in the New York City subways. Over the next decade his subway graffiti, murals, sculptures and paintings gained worldwide recognition. The Keith Haring Show brings together 200 works – sculptures, paintings and works on paper – that document [...]
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Roy Lichtenstein
The most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces.
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Roy Lichtenstein
Blondes, superheroes and Mickey Mouse – with his drastically enlarged comic subjects, Lichtenstein caused a commotion in the art world of the 1960s. In 1964, a New York Times headline read: “One of the Worst Artists in America.” Since then, the American artiwst who died in 1997 has come to rank as one of the [...]
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Andy Warhol
DVD 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 [...]
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David Hockney – My early years
David Hockney is one of the most popular British artists of the twentieth century. In this witty, candid and revealing account of himself, he tells of his childhood in Bradford, his years at the Royal College of Art and his sojourns in California and Paris.
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Robert Raushenberg: Combines
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Pop Art
Pop Art embodied the spirit of the 1960′s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic colour and giant scale, it was based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement standard appropriate to its time. Here several critics, each involved in Pop Art, but with different backgrounds, vividly bring the movement to life. Lucy Lippard examines Pop’s procursors and [...]
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