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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.
Picasso: Life with Dora Maar – Love and War 1935-1945
Dora Maar, born Henriette Theodora Markovitch in 1907, was a talented artist in her own right. While studying painting, she soon found a passion and gift for photography, and became a prominent member of the Surrealist movement. This catalogue traces her relationship with Picasso, from the time of their first meeting in late 1935 through [...]
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Fashion and Surrealism
Surrealism remains a great inspiration for the fashion world. Designers embraced the ideals and aesthetics of such creative geniuses as Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte and Man Ray. With fun, amusing and extraordinary creations, they quickly began to unstitch the institutionalized notions of fashion, adding imagination, color and scandal to this ancient trade. Fashion [...] |
Brassai – Graffiti
Brassaï became interested in the marginal art form of graffiti in the 1930s, seeing it as a form of outsider art that could open the door to new forms of artistic expression. His atmospheric photographs capture the essence of this unfettered creation. Stark contrasts of black and white alternate with softer shades of grey that [...]
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Paula Rego – John McEwen
The third edition of this monograph covers the complete career of Paula Rego (b.1935), one of today’s most important figurative painters Influenced by Surrealism, folklore, dreams and animation, Rego creates strongly narrative works imbued with a sense of subversive mystery A wealth of full-colour illustrations documents Rego’s career, including her celebrated lithographs and pastel drawings [...]
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The Duchamp Book
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was, without doubt, one of the most influential and controversial artists of the twentieth century. No other figure has attracted such a wealth of often contradictory interpretation and commentary. Beginning with an accessible introduction th Duchamp’s career, the author explores his work through a number of key themes, including authorship and identity, [...]
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Duchamp, Manray, Picabia
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), Man Ray (1890 -1977) and Francis Picabia (1879-1953) each made a huge contribution to the development of early modernism, pioneering new ideas about art and art-making that continue to reverberate today. Although involved successively with Cubisim, Dada and Surrealism they remain individual figures, despite their intermittent friendships and occasional collaborations with one [...]
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Salvador Dali: An Illustrated Life
The story of the extraordinay life of Salvador Dali is intimately bound up with his art. For the first time, this book plots the course of that life through personal photographs, pages from his sketchbooks, drawings, letters, posters and commercial designs, as well as illustrating a wide selection of the masterpieces for which he is best known.
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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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Magritte
In her classic study, Suzi Gablik elucidates Magritte’s major themes by classifying his work in related groups, each painting having a positional value in a sequence, in addition to its intrinsic value. She shows how Magritte was never involved in
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