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), Assouline (USA), Nazraeli (USA). We specialise in books on contemporary art, architecture, graphic design and monographs.

Cyclopedia of Drawing

A general reference work on mechanical and architectural drawing, including blueprint reading, machine drawing and design. Structural drafting, perspective and freehand drawing, pen and ink rendering. Topographic drafting, sheet metal pattern work, etc.

Author: William Kentridge, English, .

Specifications: Soft cover, 206x150mm, unpages, illustrated
, ISBN: 2909697606 .

Price (ZA) R1500.00

Filed in Bookstore, South African

William Kentridge - Everyone Their Own Projector

Everyone Their Own Projector is an artist’s book published by Captures Edition in Valence, France. It was created as the focus of the exhibition of the same name held recently in Paris. Kentridge made roughly one hundred drawings for the book, using collage on text pages torn from books he has cannibalized for years, such [...]

Author: William Kentridge, English, Collectible.

Specifications: 19.5 x 26cm
, ISBN: 978 2 9531889 0 5 .

Price (ZA) R950.00

Filed in Bookstore, International

Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa

LIGHT ON A HILL: BUILDING THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA
With photographs by Angela Buckland
Edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

The new Constitutional Court of South Africa was inaugurated in 2004, ten years after the demise of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections that brought the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela to power. The historic new building was the work of a team of young South African architects who had won the international competition for the design and building of the Court.

Author: Edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Photographs by Angel Buckland, English, Monograph .

Specifications: Full colour, Hard cover, 176 pages, 28x28cm
, ISBN: 978 0 9584860 7 1 .

Price (ZA) R340.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Publications, South African

El Anatsui 2006

This book was published on the occassion of an exhibition of new work by El Anatsui at David Krut Projects, New York. The book features the artists work and an interview.

Author: Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Kate McCrickard, English, Monograph .

Specifications: soft cover, 220.5x240.5mm, 20 pages, full colour
, ISBN: 978 0 9584975 2 7 .

Price (ZA) R150.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Publications

Through the Looking Glass

This book accompanied an exhibition that opened at the National Arts Festival in 2004. It considers work by a range of women artists who have represented themselves and their bodies in their work.

Author: Brenda Schmahmann, English, Catalogue.

Specifications: Softcover, 105 Pages, 23.2x23.2 cm
, ISBN: 0-9584688-5-0 .

Price (ZA) R200.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Publications

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

Mapping Memory: Former Prisoners Tell their Stories

Mapping Memory: Former Prisoners Tell their Stories is a project of Constitution Hill- the heritage precinct built around the Number Four prison complex and is now the home of Constitutional Court. The project brought back former prisoners who were held in the Women’s Jail and Number Four and created the opportunity for them to give material form to their memories made fragile by the passage of time.

Author: Lauren Segal, Clive van den Berg and Churchill Madikida, English, Anthology.

Specifications: Soft cover, 230x190mm, 136 pp, full colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 0620 368193 .

Price (ZA) R180.00

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Publications

SKILLSET Volume 1: A Primer in Graphic Design

Written by graphic designer Michael MacGarry, and featuring the work of leading design professionals, and targeted at designers, A Primer in Graphic Design features design fundamentals and principles; practical advice and guidance; designing for and within the local context; example of work by designers; Q & A with experienced local design professionals; and a glossary [...]

Author: Michael MacGarry, English, Multimedia .

Specifications: Softcover, 150pp, 19.5x23cm
, ISBN: 978 0 9814042 0 2 .

Price (ZA) R*price pending*

Filed in Bookstore, David Krut Publications, Design, 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.