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Wilma Cruise came to David Krut Print Workshop (DKW) this week to create three large-scale monotypes for her upcoming show at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg. She wanted to establish an initial drawing without using the conventional ‘ink and paintbrush’ application. She had previously sourced Caran d’Arche wax crayons in London during a recent [...]

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This is one of many design books available at David Krut Bookstores.
The most forward-thinking trends across the field of design are celebrated in Design Life Now, a publication from the National Design Triennial in conjunction with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s exhibition series and luxury publisher Assouline.
The curators set out to listen to the pulse [...]

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People are dying everywhere because they do not have access to such basic things as food, water and electricity. At the same time, those with the experience and knowledge to redress this balance design wine labels and Maserati billboards. Design For the Other 90% gathers together the work of designers who are seeking to alleviate [...]

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In our last post of Printmaking Techniques, we explored Diane Victor’s use of softground to achieve etched textures. This week we focus on the purists approach to the softground mark, which has as its aim the creation of pencil-like lines on the plate, as illustrated in the recent works of Bruce Backhouse. Softground etching [...]

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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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Author: Edited by Jennifer Mundy, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 248 pages, 290 x 215 mm, illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377319 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Widely regarded as one of the leading sculptors of the last twenty years, Juan Munoz came to prominence in the mid-1980s, when he was at the vanguard of a return to the human form. Munoz’s figures, however, are not the usual stuff of classical sculpture. Located in architectural settings, they may be seated on benches, [...]

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Author: Edited by Sheena Wagstaff, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 176 pages, 297 x 200 mm, 120 colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377326 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Everyone Their Own Projector is an artist’s book published by Captures Edition in Valence, France. It was created as the focus of the exhibition of the same name held recently in Paris. Kentridge made roughly one hundred drawings for the book, using collage on text pages torn from books he has cannibalized for years, such [...]

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Author: William Kentridge, English, Collectible.

Specifications: 19.5 x 26cm
, ISBN: 978 2 9531889 0 5 .

Price (ZA) R950.00

Tune in to ARTCHA, SABC2 on the 11th of June at 20:00 to see an interview with David Krut on printmaking and the South African art scene.

And then on the 18th of June Artcha presents artist Bronwen Findlay working in collaboration with Master Printer Jill Ross in the David Krut Print Workshop in creation of [...]

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David Krut Bookstore now proudly stocks a wide-range of international art and design magazines. Ranging across the fields of graphic design, photography, printmaking, fine art and architecture. The design magazines showcase up-and-coming designers alongside accomplished veterans, these publications offer a kaleidoscopic view of the imaginative-mindset of the international creative community. With titles ranging from Frieze [...]

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Major theoretical work that presents a fresh approach to thinking about art and its history
Replaces the notion of the ‘visual arts’ with that of the ’spatial arts’, comprising two fundamental categories: ‘real space’ and ‘virtual space’
Traces the development of human skill from the first hominid tools to the sophisticated universal three-dimensional grid of modern technology, [...]

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Author: David Summers, English, Art General.

Specifications: hardcover, 704 pages, 343 black and white illustrations
, ISBN: 978 0714842443 .

Price (ZA) R860.00