Bookstore

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. We specialise in books on contemporary art, architecture, and design.

Messages and Meaning: The MTN Art Collection

MTN and David Krut Publishing announce
the publication of
Messages and Meaning: The MTN Art Collection
In September 1997 MTN, one of the leading cell phone companies in South Africa, made a modest purchase of artworks by South African artists. This marked the beginning of what was to become a major corporate collection of South African art.

Author: Edited by Philippa Hobbs & Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, English, Anthology.

Specifications: Hardcover, 2
, ISBN: 9780958486064 .

Price (ZA) R580

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Distribution, South African

Architecture and Vegetation. Hybrid Home Spaces

The book grew out of a thrilling workshop on tropical architecture held in 2004 on Réunion called “Architecture and Vegetation – Hybrid Home Spaces”, which is also the title of the book. The aim of the workshop was to create a net of connections between students in architecture from tropical countries and from Europe and to bring them to work together on tropical climate issues.

Author: Carpanin Marimoutou and Francoise Verges, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Softcover, 210.5x160mm, 110 pages, colour photographs and sketches
, ISBN: 978 .

Price (ZA) R220.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Distribution

Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture

Critical Interventions, published by Aachron (African Art Chronicles) in collaboration with David Krut Publishing, is a peer-reviewed journal of advanced research and writing on African art history and visual culture. Our mission is to provide a forum for cutting-edge scholarship in African art history and for sustained analysis of issues of urgent concern for the discipline. The journal proposes a critical intervention at a moment of great contradiction, when there are diminishing opportunities for new and in-depth scholarly research on African arts but also a parallel rise in interest in Africa’s modernity among scholars and students.

Author: Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie & John Peffer, English, .

Specifications: Soft cover, 20.3 x 22.9 cm, 160 pp
, ISBN: 1930 1944 .

Price (ZA) R150.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Distribution, South African

The Beautiful Struggle

“Style is a big thing in the township. If you look good you feel good. You forget about poverty and find pleasure in the things that you own. It has always been there. I think warriors themselves had a competition about whose spear shined the most,” says Monwabizi Mfobo, resident in the township of Langa.

Author: Englund & Figlan & Griesehl & Waltorp, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Hard Cover, 205mm x 265mm, 143 pages, colour photographs
, ISBN: 9789197398152 .

Price (ZA) R260.00

Filed in Bookstore, Culture, David Krut Distribution, South African

Dina Prinsloo: Points for Departure

In Points For Departure ceramicist Dina Prinsloo documents her life’s work through a sumptuous collection of photographs, text, diagrams and notes. The book documents Prinsloo’s collaborations with prominent South African architects in which she has created sculptural objects and containers that become extensions of site and the built structure.

Author: Dina Prinsloo, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Soft cover, 260 x 260cm, 108 pp, full colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978-0-620-38620-3 .

Price (ZA) R295.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Distribution, South African

Revel Fox: Reflections on the Making of Space

Catalogue for work by award-winning senior South African architect with essay contributions by leading international architects and colleagues. Catalogued for an exhibition at the South African National Gallery.

Author: Edited by Justin Fox, English, Catalogue.

Specifications: Softcover, 184 Pages, 48 Pages colour, 11x 7.5cm
, ISBN: 0 620 22627 7 .

Price (ZA) R200.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Distribution, South African

Johannesburg Biennale 1995

A catalogue of all works displayed at the Johannesburg Biennale of 1995.

Author: Christopher Till and various writers., English, Catalogue.

Specifications: Softcover, 304 Pages, Full colour, 18x22cm
, ISBN: 0-86998-1714 .

Price (ZA) R300.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Distribution, South African

Trade Routes: Johannesburg Biennale 1997

A catalogue of all works displayed at the Johannesburg Biennale of 1997.

Author: Okwui Enwesor; various writers, English, Catalogue.

Specifications: Softcover, 412 Pages, Full colour, 30x23cm
, ISBN: 0-620-21522-4 .

Price (ZA) R300.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Distribution, South African

Wired

WIRED: CONTEMPORARY ZULU TELEPHONE WIRE BASKETS is the first book to document the development of wire weaving in South African art. With over 270 magnificent full colour images, Wired showcases the works of the most renowned contemporary weavers