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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.
How Art Made the World DVD
As part of BBC’s agenda to generate public awareness about art history’s relevance to contemporary culture, the documentary series How Art Made the World is a landmark. Host Dr. Nigel Spivey, a Classical Archaeology professor from Cambridge, asserts, over five episodes, that not only have cultures thrived according to their abilities to communicate visually, but [...] |
Making War Horse DVD
Making War Horse is the story of how Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel became one of the most popular and acclaimed productions in the National Theatre’s history. From its early development in the NT Studio, see how Handspring Puppet Company created the groundbreaking techniques that brought a lifelike horse to the stage. Behind the scenes and [...]
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Jackson Pollock
In 1956, the Time Magazine mockingly called one of America’s most important 20th century artists “Dripper” it did so because Pollock stood for something new: With his innovative technique of ” dripping ”and ”pouring” paint, he originated Action painting, and created radical, subjective works, which revolutionised the world of art. Pollock however, also typified the image [...]
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Henri Matisse
Images of Mediterranean life filled with vitality and cheer have turned Matisse into one of the most popular artists of the 20th century. Even an artists like Picasso was amazed by his paintings, paper cut-outs and collages. The co-founder of the Fauves knew how to capture the essence of a person in just a few [...]
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William Turnbull
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 [...]
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Video Art
This book is the most complete and up-to-date survey available of an art form born just over forty years ago and now ubiquitous internationally. Video art has moved from brief showings on tiny screens in alternative art spaces to dominance in international exhibitions and artistic events, in which vast video installations sometimes occupy factory-sized buildings [...]
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Gary Hume
DVD Gary Hume makes beautiful paintings. His materials are household paints on aluminium surfaces and his subjects, are “flora, fauna and portraits.” The results are elegant, delicate, simple yet elusive and exquisite. Playing gloriously with colour and light, they are paintings of subtle tones, idiosyncratic clashes and insistent reflections. Interviewed in his studio, Gary [...]
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Hamish Fulton
DVD Hamish Fulton describes himself as a “walking artist”. For more than thirty years he has undertaken demanding walks in many parts of the world, and drawn on his experience to create distinctive artworks using text, graphics and photographs. He aims to “leave no trace” in the landscape, and he acknowledges that his [...]
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David Hockney at the Tate
DVD Painter, graphic artist, photographer, stage designer, writer – David Hockney is one of the most versatile and significant artists of our time. The British artist’s international breakthrough came in the mid 60s with his homoerotic shower scenes and paintingsof sun-speckled Californian swimming pools. In later works as well, the artist proved himself a keen [...]
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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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