Rica Hodgson was banned, detained, house arrested and exiled by the apartheid government. After 27 years in exile she returned to South Africa to become Walter Sisulu’s secretary and to assist Nelson Mandela with projects close to his heart. In Foot Soldier for Freedom Rica traces her evolution from relative white privilege as a [...]

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Author: Rica Hodgson, English, Monograph, Softcover, 272pp, 234x153mm, ISBN: 9781770101890,
Price: (ZA)R 240

SAARTJIE BAARTMAN was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks she had made the headlines and become the talk of the social season of 1810, hailed as The Hottentont Venus for her exquisite physique (not least her shapely  and irresistible bottom) and sugestive semi-nude [...]

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Author: Rachel Holmes, English, South African History and Culture, Softcover, 250x135mm, full colour, 240pp, ISBN: 9781868422760

The first edition of Zuma, published in late 2008, concluded with Jacob Zuma’s future balancing on a knife’s edge. National elections loomed, but so did corruption charges and endless court battles. Since then Zuma’s star has spectacularly risen – the corruption charges were dropped, he led the ANC to election victory and duly became President [...]

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Author: Jeremy Gordin, English, Monograph, Softcover, 390pp, 198x128mm, ISBN: 9781868423811

Since his Taxi book of 2003, Steven Cohen’s “Life is Shot, Art is Long” takes a retrospective view of works spanning 22 years.These range from the early silkscreens, through such seminal performance pieces as Chandelier (20021/2), “Maid in South Africa (2005), Dancing Inside Out (2006) and Golgotha (2009), to his installation of collaged Nazi identity [...]

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Author: Sophie Peeryer, English, Monograph, Sostcover, 120pp, 265x255mm, ISBN: 9780620463508,
Price: (ZA)R 350

South African Photographs In conjunction with the exhibition at the Jewish Museum, a related 200-page book with 150 black and white plates,Kith, Kin & Khaya: South African Photographs: David Goldblatt, has been published. In its introduction, writer and critic Ingrid Sischy writes, “A highly sophisticated, even strict, sense of aesthetics, combined with a rigorous moral [...]

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Author: Ingrid Sischeny, English, Monograph, Softcover, 240x200mm, black and white, 200pp, ISBN: 9780986974908,
Price: (ZA)R 390

Cecil Skotnes said that Ngatane “put his thumbprint on the history of South African art”. In the course of his short-lived but illustrious career, Ngatane made a marked impression on the art of the 1950s and 1960s, creating artworks that captured the essence of township living and conveyed emotion and depth. Ngatane studied under Skotnes [...]

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Author: Rory Bester, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 250x250mm, full colour, 80pp, ISBN: 9780620454339,
Price: (ZA)R 300

A Dialogue on Art and Architecture with Hans Ulrich Orbst In this Dialogue on Art and Architecture, Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923) reminisces with Hans Ulrich Obrist about his early career, his teachers (Max Beckmann, Brancusi, Léger and Vantongerloo) and particularly on the relation of his work to architecture: “architects are usually the first people who [...]

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Unknown Author, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 250x185mm, full colour, 80pp, ISBN: 9783865605849,
Price: (ZA)R 500

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was the most prolific artist in the history of Western art, producing over two thousand oil paintings, as well as sculptures, ceramics, collages, prints, photographs, drawings and jewellery designs. Drawing extensively on recent research, this book provides an overview of the full range of Picasso’s art and career. In a unique [...]

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Author: Neil Cox, English, Monograph, Softcover, 245x190mm, full colour, 224pp, ISBN: 9781854378439,
Price: (ZA)R 360

Picasso: Peace and Freedom reveals a radically different figure from the one often presented in art historical accounts. In it we meet a politically and socially engaged artist, who joined the French Communist Party in October 1944 and remained a member until his death in 1973. Actively engaged in the Peace Movement, for which he [...]

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Author: Edited by Lynda Morris and Christopher Grunenberg, English, Monograph, Softcover, 285x235mm, full colour, 244pp, ISBN: 9781854378422,
Price: (ZA)R 500

Sculpture is an act of faith in life, in its continuity – Antony Gormley Few artists have enjoyed the popular acclaim and critical profile that Antony Gormley has gained in recent years. From the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square to the remote desert of central Australia, his work gener- ates lively debate, connecting readily [...]

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Author: Michael Caiger-Smith, English, Monograph, Softcover, 270x210mm, full colour, 96pp, ISBN: 9781854377975,
Price: (ZA)R 300