“For most of the century we have concidered the art of Architecture to be fundamentally a formal matter (especially when we have talked of functionalism). In his highly intelligent new book on the built culture of South Africa during Apartheid, David Goldblatt considers architecture – professional and vernacular – for its content. The result is deeply fascinating, and a revelation.” John Szarkowski

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Author: Neville Dubow, English, Monograph, Hard Cover, 275mm x 305mm, 260 pages, Black and White Photography, ISBN: 9781580930260,
Price: (ZA)R 500.00

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Author: Krog & Powell, English, Monograph, Soft Cover, 260mm x 280mm, ISBN: 9781415200254,
Price: (ZA)R 395.00

“Slowly, all these beautiful, plump, female nudes became cumbrous and all the handsome male nudes became heavy and distorted. I may have been quietly changing or I may have been finding what I really wanted to do.” Robert Hodgins

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Author: Sean Fraser, English, Monograph, Soft Cover, 250mm x 290mm, 143 pages, colour illustrations, ISBN: 9780624040651,
Price: (ZA)R 275.00

Love and Courage offers us a refreshing vision of true power, both personal and political, based on the love and courage within each of us.

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Author: Pregs Govender, English, NonArt, Soft cover, 15.5 x 23.5 cm, 261 pp, ISBN: 978 1 770093423,
Price: (ZA)R 195.00

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.

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Author: Nelson Mandela, English, NonArt, Soft cover 12.6 x 19.7 cm, 768 pp, Hard cover, 13 x 20.5 cm, 768 pp., ISBN: Soft 978 0 349 106533, hard 978 0 316 855006,
Price: (ZA)R 160 soft cover, R 260.00 hard cover

The features and faces of South Africa’s indigenous cultures are as varied as the continent’s many textures and colours. In Cultures of South Africa: A Celebration author Peter Joyce and photographer Roger de la Harpe celebrate this extraordinary diversity – of tradition, custom, history and geography of the land. This spectacular, full-colour volume explores the [...]

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Author: Peter Joyce, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 247x210mm, 144pg, Colour Illustration, ISBN: 9781919938998,
Price: (ZA)R 190.00

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

Although one in every six women lives in India, most of the western world knows little about them. In Daughters of India, Stephen Huyler has collected the stories of twenty Indian women and their many forms of artistic expression, deliberately choosing aspects of their lives that give a portrait of the broad range of characteristics [...]

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Author: Stephen P.Huyler, English, Art General, Hardcover, 263pp, 300x235mm, ISBN: 978 0789210029,
Price: (ZA)R 780

Making art is quite therapeutic, Tracey Moffatt once said of herself. This brief statement reveals much of the artist’s personality and above all about her manner of interpreting the artistic experience, a practice that frequently refers to her personal episodes and events. An Aborigine by birth, Tracey Moffatt grew up as a foster child in [...]

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Author: Filippo Maggia, English, Art General, Softcover,142pp, 28 x 24cm,, ISBN: 978 887624932,
Price: (ZA)R 375.00

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This is a witty love-story with a difference! Fanie Fourie is a true blue ‘boere seun’ from a conservative Afrikaans community with an unrepentantly macho approach to love and life in general. But his worldview undergoes an abrupt reinvention when he is ‘bitten by the louse and bedbug of love’ and falls head-over-heels for Dimakatjo [...]

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Author: Nape `a Motana, English, NonArt, Softcover, 344pp, 230 x 150mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 103 5,
Price: (ZA)R 140.00