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David Krut Publishing is the sole distributor in Africa of titles from TATE Publishing UK.

Street Art

Street Art – art made in public spaces and including graffiti, stickers, poster art, stencil art and wheat-pasting, but not corporate-sponsored advertising or “public art” – has become one of the most popular and hotly discussed areas of art practice on the contemporary scene. Developing out of the graffiti writing tradition of the 1980s, through [...]

Author: Cedar Lewisohn, English, Multimedia.

Specifications: Soft cover, 270 x 210 mm, 144 pages, 60 colour illlustrations
, ISBN: 978 1 85437 767 8 .

Price (ZA) R380.00

Filed in Bookstore, TATE Gallery London

The Scribble Book

The Scribble Book does away with the traditional rules of the pre-school colouring book, encouraging children to cross boundaries and experiment for themselves. Gradually, as the book unfolds, the scribbles evolve into puzzles to be solved and finally into genuine drawings. Full of wit and humour, irreverent and enchanting, The Scribble Book is destined to [...]

Author: Herve Tullet, English, Multimedia.

Specifications: Soft cover, 320x275 mm, 62 pages, 62 colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377746 .

Price (ZA) R140.00

Filed in Bookstore, International, TATE Gallery London

Claude Cahun: Disavowals

Claude Cahun (1894-1954, born Lucie Schwob) was a poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, actress, Surrealist, revolutionary artist and photographer. Although primarily a writer, the range of Cahun’s activities as an artist was rediscovered during the wave of interest in women artists, and more specifically Surrealism, during the 1980s. She is now known in the English [...]

Author: Jennifer Mundy, Susan de Muth, François Leperlier et al, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Soft cover, 219x180 mm, 226 pages, 11 black-and-white photomontages
, ISBN: 978 1854376275 .

Price (ZA) R260.00

Filed in Bookstore, International, TATE Gallery London

William Blake: Poetical Sketches

Poetical Sketches was the first and only volume of William Blake’s poetry printed in his lifetime. Long unavailable in its entirety as a single volume, this edition is reproduced from an extremely rare copy of the original 1783 book that contains corrections to the printed text handwritten by Blake himself.

Author: William Blake, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Hard cover, 234x148 mm, 70 pages
, ISBN: 978 1854377685 .

Price (ZA) R200.00

Filed in Bookstore, International, TATE Gallery London

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

A major new series of monographs on the lives and careers of influential British artists, from the eighteenth century onwards.
The painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. He is now best known for his sumptuous oil paintings of solitary women from the 1860s [...]

Author: Lisa Tickner, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Soft cover, 240x170 mm, 80 pages, 33 colour & 28 b&w illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854374875 .

Price (ZA) R175.00

Filed in Bookstore, International, TATE Gallery London

Peter Blake: A Retrospective

In 2007, Tate Liverpool will present the first major retrospective of the work of Peter Blake in Britain since 1983. A key figure in the history of British Pop Art, Blake is one of the most influential and original artists working in Britain today.
Central to Blake’s work since the 1950s has been his fascination with popular culture, ranging from music to Hollywood icons and wrestling stars.

Author: Christoph Grunenberg and Laurence Sillars, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Soft cover, 270x210mm, 96 pp, 65 illustrations
, ISBN: 978 185437 7173 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Filed in Bookstore, International, TATE Gallery London

Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Enviroments

Joseph Beuys (1921–1986)—a German sculptor and performance artist–became one of the most influential figures in modern and contemporary art. His charismatic presence, extraordinary life, and unconventional artistic style (incorporating ritualized movement and sound, and materials such as fat, felt, earth, honey, blood, and even dead animals) gained him international notoriety during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

Author: Mark Rosenthal, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Soft cover, 305x230mm, 224 pp, full illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854 375858 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Filed in Bookstore, TATE Gallery London

Colour

Following the highly acclaimed A is for Artist - Colour retains the same square format and fabric binding and the distinctive combination of Ella Doran’s photographs with the styling, graphics and original artworks of Zoe Miller and David Goodman. The trio create artwork that is richly layered, and though the feel is contemporary it includes many references to classic design from the past.

Author: Ella Doran, David Goodman and Zoe Miller, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Hardcover, 240.5x240.5mm, 60 pages, full colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854 37680 0 .

Price (ZA) R285.00

Filed in Bookstore, TATE Gallery London

Howard Hodgkin

A magnificent survey of the work of this master painter, published to accompany the major retrospective touring exhibition of his work.

Author: Nicholas Serota (Editor, English, Catalogue.

Specifications: Hardcover, 29x24.5cm, 224 Pages, 105 colour and 20 black-and-white illustrations
, ISBN: 1 85437 701 9 .

Price (ZA) R550.00

Filed in Bookstore, International, TATE Gallery London

Writers on Howard Hodgkin

Major contemporary writers engage with the works of this remarkable artist. Authors include Julian Barnes, Bruce Bernard, William Boyd, Bruce Chatwin, James Fenton, Alan Hollinghurst, Susan Sontag and Colm Tóibín.