WHY BUY BOOKS ON THE ARTS?
Often we look but do not see. This means that it takes a lot of looking to understand art and develop what we call visual literacy.
Having books on display on your bookshelves allows easy access to images or information which appeal to your senses, and motivates you to keep exploring [...]

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JUNE/JULY 2009
 
The following titles are newly arrived at the David Krut Bookstores.
Please visit us at:

Arts on Main, corner Fox and Berea
140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood
the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Joubert Park 
Constitution Hill, Braamfontein

African Literature and Culture
A Beautiful Game
A Zulu Song Book
Abantu Besizwe
Africa Writes Back
African Intellectuals in the 19th Century
Alexandra – A History
All the Days
Alternative Theatre in South [...]

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This series of lively essays considers the themes raised by the provocative and critically acclaimed 2007/8 travelling exhibition Dis-Location / Re-Location by Leora Farber and the fashion design duo Strangelove . The exhibition draws together the stories of three generations of South African women in the light of post-colonial and feminist theory. Included in the [...]

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Author: Edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, English, Art General, Softcover, full colour, 21 x 21 cm, 96 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9814042-1-9,
Price: (ZA)R 250.00

This is the first title to appear under David Krut Publishing’s new imprint ULWAZI . In the Footsteps of Mr Andersson: Milestones in Swedish-Namibia Relations tells the story of the extraordinary relationship between Sweden and Namibia. It begins in the middle of the nineteenth century, when a Swedish explorer, adventurer, entrepreneur and arms [...]

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Author: Christer Pettersson, English, NonArt, Soft cover, 230x185mm, Full colour, 146 pages, ISBN: 9780981404295,
Price: (ZA)R 220.00

It is not often that graphic design is exhibited in a gallery space, but the overwhelmingly positive response to the opening of Drawing Show at David Krut Projects (DKP) proves that design fits comfortably alongside ‘fine art’ in the canon of contemporary visual culture. The opening attracted not only interested buyers and curious eyes, but also numerous insiders from the local design industry.

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Lovers of fashion and fine books will be delighted at the news that Assouline books will be available in South Africa. David Krut Publishing (DKP) will launch this fine range of fashion and art titles in Johannesburg.

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In this book, Alan Male investigates the role of the illustrator in contemporary society by analysing theoretical and historical aspects of illustration in various social contexts. Male also offers an outline of the training and methods of the illustrator, which serve as guidance to those studying illustration at tertiary level.

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Verbalising the Visual: Translating art and design into words is an academic publication, which avoids the labels of textbook or ‘how to’ manual. Aimed at undergraduate students of visual culture studies, the book aims to provide a guide to efficiently expressing a visual experience in words.

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This is one of many design books available at David Krut Bookstores.
The most forward-thinking trends across the field of design are celebrated in Design Life Now, a publication from the National Design Triennial in conjunction with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s exhibition series and luxury publisher Assouline.
The curators set out to listen to the pulse [...]

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Above Left: Booth G13 at the Cape Town Book Fair. Above Right: Tyrone Appollis and Grethe Fox.
Booth G13 at the Cape Town Book Fair was a site of remarkable collaborative energy, as it could only have been with the David Krut Publishing team.

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