Culture

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

Filed in Bookstore, Culture, International, Magazine

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 [...]

Author: Brett Bailey, English, Multimedia.

Specifications: softcover, 200 pages, 218 x 173 mm, colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 1919930206 .

Price (ZA) R

Filed in Bookstore, Culture, South African

Art South Africa

Featuring: Alan Alborough, Africa remix, William Kentridge, Kathryn Smith, Animal photography, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Guy Tillim, Graeme Williams, Jean Brundrit, Elizabeth Gunter, David Koloane, Jo Ratcliffe, Nelson Makamo, Nyaniso Lindi, and Colleen Alborough

Author: Sean O Toole, English, Magazine.

Specifications: Soft Cover, 111 pages, 215mm x 275mm
, ISBN: 9771684613008 .

Price (ZA) R120.00

Filed in Bookstore, Culture, South African

Unconfessed

They called her Sila Van Den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus van der Wat of Plettenberg Bay. They called her murderer, demanded that she explain her terrible violence. In response, she uttered one strange, powerful word, and shut her mouth to them.

Author: Yvette Christianse, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Soft Cover, 350 pages, 150mm x 220mm
, ISBN: 9780795702587 .

Price (ZA) R170.00

Filed in Bookstore, Culture, 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

South African Visual Culture

The subject of visual culture deals with acquiring the theoretical skills and critical framework for understanding what one sees. In this sense, visual culture makes a definite reference to understanding and discussing those aspects of culture and society that involve any type of visual media.

Author: Jeanne Van Eeden, Amanda du Preez, English, Catalogue .

Specifications: Soft cover, 245x170mm, 269pp, illustrated
, ISBN: 978 0627 025983 .

Price (ZA) R240.00

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The Suitcase Stories: Refugee children reclaim their identities

Author: Glynis Clacherty, English, Multimedia.

Specifications: Soft cover, 17 x 20.2 cm, 184 pp
, ISBN: 978 1 919930 99 2 .

Price (ZA) R200.00

Filed in Bookstore, Culture, South African

Innovative threads: A decade of South African Fibre Art

Innovative Threads: A decade of South African Fibre art brings together a select display of artworks that have appeared at the annual Innovative Threads exhibition over the past 10 years. This juried exhibition shows the best and most exciting fibre art South Africa has to offer.

Author: Liza Gillespie, English, Catalogue.

Specifications: 25 x 24.7 cm
, ISBN: 978 0620367370 .

Price (ZA) R260.00

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Spraycan Art

The spraycan painting displayed with such exuberance in these pages derives directly from the graffiti-based ‘writing’ on the sides of New York’s subway trains that was so vividly celebrated in Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant’s hugely successful book Subway Art.

Author: Henry Calfant & James Prigoff, English, Anthology.

Specifications: 28 x 21 cm
, ISBN: 978 0500274699 .

Price (ZA) R200.00

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Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People

Jake and Dinos Chapman are among the most important figures to have emerged from the ‘YBA’ (Young British Artist) generation in the 1990s. Over the past decade they have built up an international reputation for work through which they have confronted some of the most troubling issues of our time. These have included the endless human capacity for warfare and violence; plastic surgery, genetic manipulation and cloning; the instability of moral and ideological belief systems; and the assumed asexuality and innocence of children.