Bridget Riley, one of the leading abstract painters of her generation, holds a unique position in contemporary art. She has developed and extended the range of her interests ever since her first success in the 1960s, creating a body of work which is both consistent and highly varied. This volume, now fully revised and updated, [...]

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Author: Robert Kudielka, Bridget Riley and Kudielka, English, Monograph, Softcover, 230x170mm, 352pp, ISBN: 9780500976999,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

For a painter who has so successfully neutralized the declarative potential of his medium, Gerhard Richter has committed to print a surprisingly large amount of discussion on his work. Perhaps it is only natural that an artist whose painting incarnates the Cagean premise that there is nothing to communicate should be moved to address that [...]

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Author: Dietmar Elger and Hans Unrich Obrist, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 600pp, 240 x175mm, ISBN: 978 193304948,
Price: (ZA)R 495.00

  AOM Ways of Writing demonstrates the wide range of both Mda’s work and its critical reception, with discussions of his fiction and drama by scholars from South Africa, Europe and the USA. The essays reinforce the impression of an original and challenging writer whose creative skills have been used to focus attention on the [...]

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Author: David Bell, J.U. Jacobs, English, NonArt, Softcover, 428pp, 230 x 170mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 151 6

Chimurenga 14, “Everyone Has Their Indian”, seeks to unpack the relation between Africa and South Asia. Born out of the ongoing conversation between divergent temporal registers, between different territories and bodies of thought, it can be seen both as a map of actual lines that criss-cross the Mediterranean and Indian oceans and a log of [...]

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Author: Various, English, Magazine, Softcover, 250x290mm, 240pp, ISBN: 978098142726x,
Price: (ZA)R 85.00

“As enjoyable and provocative a book of criticism as anyone has published in years.”         —Rolling Stone “Dave Hickey’s prose transports are like an eye attached to a butterfly attached to a rocketship—which is to say, lucidity uncannily yoked to both a deft lightness of touch and sheer gangbusters propulsion: the down-to-earth, time and again, [...]

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Author: Dave Hickey, English, Art General , Softcover, 224 pages, ISBN: 0-9637264-5-5,
Price: (ZA)R 240.00

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

By the end of the eighteenth century a sense of anxiety and crisis began to preoccupy European writers and artists in their relationship to the heroic past, from antiquity on, which constituted the European intellectual tradition. Artists felt overwhelmed by the magnitude of past heroic accomplishments, its domineering influence, even of their own past accomplishment, [...]

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Author: Linda Nochlin, English, Art General , Soft cover,64 pages, 209 x 148 mm, black-and-white illustrations, ISBN: 978 0500 283059,
Price: (ZA)R 179.00

From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s witnessed a return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims of beauty, in reaction [...]

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Author: Edited by Diarmuid Costello and Dominic Willsdon, English, Art General , softcover, 256 pages, 234 x 156 mm, 40 black and white illustrations, ISBN: 978 1854376589,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00

Major theoretical work that presents a fresh approach to thinking about art and its history Replaces the notion of the ‘visual arts’ with that of the ‘spatial arts’, comprising two fundamental categories: ‘real space’ and ‘virtual space’ Traces the development of human skill from the first hominid tools to the sophisticated universal three-dimensional grid of [...]

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                In Britian today there is widespread interest in the Islamic world, coupled with a desire, made urgent by recent events, to better understand the history and legacy of past relations between Western and Islamic nations.

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Author: Nicholas Tromans, English, Catalogue , Softcover, 297 x 235 mm, 100 colour, 20 black and white, ISBN: 978 185437 733 3,
Price: (ZA)R 500.00