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Art DVDs at David Krut Bookstores

28th May 2008 by Luke Crossley

DVDs at David Krut Bookstores, which now stock a wide-range of art, social and historical DVDs.
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Illuminations is a dynamic and innovative producer of cultural content for multimedia. Illuminations films produce art cinema, features, long-form documentaries, and artist’ films and videos for gallery installations, and is an ideal resource for a [...]

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South Africa: The Structure Of Things Then

“For most of the century we have concidered the art of Architecture to be fundamentally a formal matter (especially when we have talked of functionalism). In his highly intelligent new book on the built culture of South Africa during Apartheid, David Goldblatt considers architecture - professional and vernacular - for its content. The result is deeply fascinating, and a revelation.” John Szarkowski

Author: Neville Dubow, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Hard Cover, 275mm x 305mm, 260 pages, Black and White Photography
, ISBN: 9781580930260 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Filed in Bookstore, Culture, South African

David Goldblatt: Some Afrikaners Revisited

Author: Krog & Powell, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Soft Cover, 260mm x 280mm
, ISBN: 9781415200254 .

Price (ZA) R395.00

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Robert Hodgins

“Slowly, all these beautiful, plump, female nudes became cumbrous and all the handsome male nudes became heavy and distorted. I may have been quietly changing or I may have been finding what I really wanted to do.” Robert Hodgins

Author: Sean Fraser, English, Monograph.

Specifications: Soft Cover, 250mm x 290mm, 143 pages, colour illustrations
, ISBN: 9780624040651 .

Price (ZA) R175.00

Filed in Bookstore, Culture, South African

Love and Courage: A Story of Insubordination

Love and Courage offers us a refreshing vision of true power, both personal and political, based on the love and courage within each of us.

Author: Pregs Govender, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Soft cover, 15.5 x 23.5 cm, 261 pp
, ISBN: 978 1 770093423 .

Price (ZA) R195.00

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Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.

Author: Nelson Mandela, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Soft cover 12.6 x 19.7 cm, 768 pp, Hard cover, 13 x 20.5 cm, 768 pp.
, ISBN: Soft 978 0 349 106533, hard 978 0 316 855006 .

Price (ZA) R160 soft cover, R 260.00 hard cover

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Telegrams From the Nose

To complement their current exhibition of William Kentridge’s works entitled, Telegrams From The Nose, the Annandale Galleries of Sydney have produced, under Anne Gregory’s guidance, a marvellous book-cum-catalogue, of the same title, which serves as both a handbook to those attending the exhibition, and a valuable read in its own right.
The book showcases quite a [...]

Author: Annandale Galleries, English, Catalogue.

Specifications: softcover, 200 x 254 mm, 64 pages
, ISBN: .

Price (ZA) R400.00

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Drawing the Passing

Exploring the space between the personal and the political, the work of William Kentridge has since the 1970s investigated the diseased, amnesiac consciousness of late and post-apartheid South Africa. Kentridge has received international acclaim for his animated films, drawings and theatre work.
In his ’stone-age filmmaking’ technique, Kentridge films his charcoal drawings as the mutate through [...]

Author: Maria Anna Tappeiner and Reinhard Wulf, English, .

Specifications:
, ISBN: .

Price (ZA) R700

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Nka - Journal of Contemporary African Art #20

Author: Various, English, Magazine .

Specifications: softcover, 152 pages, 254 x 190 mm, illustrations
, ISBN: 1075 7163 .

Price (ZA) R352.00

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The Plays of Miracle & Wonder - Brett Bailey

Ipi Zombi , Imumbo Jumbo , The Prophet
These three plays “of miracle and wonder” by Brett Bailey are testament to a truly groundbreaking voice in African theatre. Drawing on a wealth of photographs, working notes, autobiography and reflection, this richly designed book re-creates something of the funky energy, haunting magic and colourful imagery of the [...]