This catalogue offers a retrospective of Gauguin’s entire artistic career, beginning with his early impressionist works through to his final masterpieces painted on the Marquesas Islands, where Gauguin was inspired to create artworks that are among the most vivid in the history of painting. “Gauguin had clearly decided to violate social norms, destroy consecrated artistic [...]

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Author: Stephanie E. Eisenman, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 440pp, 280 x 239mm, ISBN: 9788861304581,
Price: (ZA)R 800

Matisse and Picasso (New edition) Fiercely competitive, Matisse and Picasso engaged in one of the most formidable artistic dialogues of this century. The intense beginning of the relationship between the two artists – from the time they met in 1906 until 1917, when Matisse left for Nice – has already been amply studied, but their [...]

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Author: Yve-Alain Bois, English, Monograph, Softcover, 272pp, 275 x 230mm, ISBN: 9782080106186,
Price: (ZA)R 350

  More than fifty years after Peggy Guggenheim’s first Venice show in 1950, the legacy of Jackson Pollock returns to Italy in two major retrospectives. Separate shows at Courer, Venice and at the Centro Culturale Candiani in Mestre have brought together works from American and European collections including from the Metropolitan; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; [...]

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Author: Bruno Alfieri, English, Catalogue, Hardcover, 260pp, 280 x 240mm, ISBN: 9788884912428,
Price: (ZA)R 500

‘Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.’ Chuck Close Inside an art gallery, it is easy to forget that the paintings there are the end products of a process involving not only creative inspiration, but also plenty of physical and logistical details. It is these ‘cruder,’ more [...]

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Author: Joe Fig, English, Art General, Softcover, 240x176mm, full colour, ISBN: 9781568988528,
Price: (ZA)R 420

This book successfully conveys a portrait of Korean graphic art in its entirety, and in doing so gives the reader a feeling for Korean culture and history not found in ordinary histories. It is both visually attractive and interesting to read. It is filled with stories about the artists and their milieu, and discusses the [...]

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Author: Park Youngdale, English, Art General, Softcover, 420pp, 225 x 150mm, ISBN: 893 231259103650,
Price: (ZA)R 200.00

In her celebrated large-scale paintings, which are built up with layers of acrylic paint on canvas and overlaid with gestural pen and ink marks, Ethiopian-born, New York-based artist Julie Mehretu explores issues of mobility, social organization, political entanglement and global competition.

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Author: Siemon Allen, Rebecca Hart and Kinsey Katchka, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 280 x 210mm, 88pp, ISBN: 978 0895581617,
Price: (ZA)R 400.00

When the 27-year-old Brooklyn street artist Swoon had her first one-person gallery exhibition at New York’s Deitch Projects in 2005, the area surrounding the gallery was so overrun with fans and friends that neither cars nor pedestrians could pass through. Reviews in all of the major New York papers, and even national news sources like [...]

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Author: Swoon, English, Art General, Softcover, 64pp, 190 x 277mm, ISBN: 978 0977868667,
Price: (ZA)R 225.00

Maja Maljevic’s exhibition of prints and paintings, entitled Into the Spine, opened at David Krut Projects on 7 May 2009. Below are selected images of the exhibition.       The exhibition will conclude on 13 June 2009

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Gerard Sekoto was one of the first black, modern artist in South Africa . It is only now his work is becoming more widely known. In this book, Sekoto tells the story of his life from herding cattle in Botshabelo in the Transvaal to living in self-exile in Paris in France. He tells how he [...]

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Author: Barbara Lindop, English, Monograph, Softcover, 205 x 148mm, 100pp, B&W and colour illustrations, ISBN: 978 1874932093,
Price: (ZA)R 78.00

While Pemba is a fairly well-known artist in the Eastern Cape, he has only recently begun to get wider national exposure. Pemba struggled to get formal training, and to earn a living form his art. With the introduction of apartheid policies in 1948, Pemba found it even more difucult to pursue his art. He decided [...]

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Author: Barry feinberg, English, Monograph, Softcover, 205 x 148mm, 100pp, B&W and colour illustrations, ISBN: 978 1874932376,
Price: (ZA)R 78.00