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

Edited by Katharine Stout with Lizzie Carey-Thomas
Foreword by Nicholas Serota
Since the mid 1980s the visual arts scene in Britain has changed beyond recognition and the Turner Prize lies at the heart of an ever-increasing fascination with contemporary culture in the UK. Established in 1984 to draw greater public attention to contemporary art ‘in much the [...]

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Author: Edited by Katharine Stout, Lizzie Carey - Thomas, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 112 pages, 216 x 138 mm, 45 black and white illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377425 .

Price (ZA) R260.00

‘Fanelli’s originality has brought a breath of fresh air to the world of picture books . . . with an off-beat humour and an inventive approach to everything from page design and typography to choice of materials’ – Guardian
Sara Fanelli and Tate Publishing were awarded the 2008 Design & Art Direction award for outstanding achievement [...]

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Author: Sara Fanelli, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 176 pages plus 16 pages and 8 pages book inserts, 268 x 210 mm, 200 colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1854377289 .

Price (ZA) R400.00

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

This book explores Beuy’s activities in Scotland, england and Ireland, including his first spectacular entrance as one of the participants in the 1970 Strategy: Get Ats exhibition in Edinburgh, the proposal to establish the Free International University in Dublin and his final shows in the autumn of 1985, shortly before his death. This rich history [...]

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Arshile Gorky was an unabashedly ambitious artist, “apprenticing” himself to a series of masters-most notably Cézanne and Picasso- in order to become, at last, the master of his own original style. His transformation of traditions into an utterly untraditional approach in turn inspired the Abtract Expressinists, who achieved a fame that Gorky died to young to enjoy.

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Author: Melvin P. Lader, English, .

Specifications: Soft Cover,220.5x290,ISBN 9781558592490,128 PG,Illustrated
, ISBN: 9781558592490 .

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Sculpture conservators now have to work with such diverse materials as plastics, video and tapioca, as well as traditional stone and bronze. This publication focuses on a number of works that have recently received conservation treatment at Tate, challenging common assumptions about the durability of works of art.

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Author: Jackie Heuman, English, Anthology.

Specifications: Soft cover, 277x219mm, 128pp
, ISBN: 978 1854 372888 .

Price (ZA) R160.00

‘Not since Lord Snowdon’s Private View in the sixties has such an important archive been produced to such impressive effect’ -Tatler

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Author: Gautier Deblonde, English, Multimedia.

Specifications: Soft cover, 255x205mm, 131pp
, ISBN: 1854372912 .

Price (ZA) R255.00

As a painter, illustrator and critic, Paul Nash (1889- 1946) was at the forefront of Britsh art in the first half of the twentieth century. Inspired by William Blake, Samuel Palmer and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he produced some of the greatest paintings of the First and Second World Wars.

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Author: david boyd haycock, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Soft cover, 241x170mm, 80pp, 60 illustrations in colour & b&w
, ISBN: 978 1854 374363 .

Price (ZA) R175.00

Turner’s lifetime was also the classic age of English watercolour, and his mastery and perfection of the medium coincided with its establishment as an independent art form. Turner was at the forefront of these developments, but he also stood apart from them.

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Author: David Blayney Brown, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Soft cover, 230x265mm, 128pp
, ISBN: 978 1 85437 771 .

Price (ZA) R400.00