Three distinct perspectives on Boltanski and his work: an analytical essay, a personal interview, and a complete retrospective of his work to date. Christian Boltanski–internationally acclaimed photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation artist–tackles the problems of death, memory, and loss in his art that draws heavily from his own life. Boltanski’s art can be either dark [...]

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Author: Catherine Grenier and Daniel Mendelsohn, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 208pp, 288 x 218mm, ISBN: 9782080300799,
Price: (ZA)R 450

This exhibition by William Kentridge at Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) opens from 2 May at 1700H exhibition Hall 8 and goes through to 01 August 2010. A comic and visually dazzling video installation and performance by artist William Kentridge, in “I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine,” who gives an unusual presentation related to his [...]

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Gabriel Orozco was born in Veracruz in Mexico in 1962. Since the early 1990s, his career has been characterised by constant surprise and innovation. He roams freely and fluently between drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting, creating a body of work that resists categorisation. Ranging from subtle interventions in the landscape to meticulously executed sculptures [...]

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Author: Ann Temkin, English, Monograph, Softcover, full colour, 241x305mm, 256pp, ISBN: 9781854379214,
Price: (ZA)R 450

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and moved to New York City in 1938. She is considered to be one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Her sculptures, paintings, drawings, monumental installations, and graphic work form a polymorphic ensemble that defies any singular aesthetic classification. Bourgeois applies this rich diversity [...]

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Author: Marie-Laure Bernadac, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 285x215mm, full colour, 208pp, ISBN: 9782080305534,
Price: (ZA)R 450

Anish Kapoor is one of the foremost artists of his generation. His majestic sculptures demand a physical response and suggest a metaphysical realm. This richly illustrated book traces Kapoor’s artistic development during a career spanning 30 years. Eminent scholars explore the philosophical issues pertinent to his work and examine its place in the history of [...]

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Unknown Author, English, Monograph, Hard cover, 310x250mm, colour Illustrations, 189 pg, ISBN: 9781905711505,
Price: (ZA)R 720.00

There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s — and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era. WACK! documents and illustrates the impact of the feminist revolution on art made between 1965 and 1980, featuring pioneering and [...]

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Author: Lisa Gabrielle Mark, English, Hardcover, 511pp, 265x235mm, ISBN: 978 0914357995,
Price: (ZA)R 650.00

Martin Kippenberger: the problem perspective constitutes a comprehensive and scholarly examination of the artist’s career. This book, which accompanies the first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of Kippenberger’s work, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, documents Kippenberger’s extraordinary twenty-year career with works in many media-paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations, photographs, collaborations with other [...]

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Author: Edited by Ann Goldstein, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 370pp, 285x235mm, ISBN: 978 1933751092,
Price: (ZA)R 850.00

  Hanne Darboven’s Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983) is an overwhelming and encyclopedic installation consisting of 1,590 works on paper and 19 sculptural objects. The work weaves together cultural, social, and historical references with autobiographical documents, postcards, pinups of film and rock stars, documentary references to the first and second world wars, geometric diagrams for textile [...]

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Author: Dan Adler, English, Monograph, Softcover, 108pp, 210x150mm, ISBN: 9781846380501,
Price: (ZA)R 180.00

Born in 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany, but raised in an artistic family in South Orange, New Jersey (her father was the American sculptor Tony Smith), Kiki Smith has always occupied herself with questions of the human body and condition. Unlike classical figurative sculpture, which hides the insides of the body, Smith’s work often visualizes the [...]

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Author: Ellen Seifermann, Martin Hentschel, Kiki Smith, English, Art General, Hardcover, 168pp, 250 x 175mm,, ISBN: 978 3866781863,
Price: (ZA)R 395.00

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Author: Mfundi Vundla, English, Catalogue, Softcover, 200x210mm, full colour, 48pp,
Price: (ZA)R 100.00