From the luminous landscapes of Turner, Cozens and Girtin, through to the evocative watercolours of William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites, the ‘golden age’ of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British watercolour has defined a powerful ideal of British art. Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, and including four searching essays, this richly illustrated book celebrates the [...]

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Author: Martin Myrone, English, Art General, Softcover, full colour, 246x189mm, 60pp, ISBN: 9781854378873,
Price: (ZA)R 125

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

Piero Fornasetti is often described as a visionary. A Milan artist, Fornasetti was at the same time a painter, sculptor, designer, craftsman, and an engraver of art books. In his lifetime, he created more than 11,000 items, most of which are one-of-a kind. It is actually said that his production of objects and furniture is [...]

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Author: Brigitte Fitoussi and Phillipe Starck, English, NonArt, Hardcover, Jacket, 217x158mm, full colour, 80pp, ISBN: 9782843236792,
Price: (ZA)R 190

The new catalogue to accompany the Tate Britain retrospective exhibition: 27 January – 16 May 2010.
Edited by Judith Nesbitt with contributions by Okwui Enwezor, Ekow Eshun and Atillah Springer.
The British painter Chris Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968 and is one of the most notable painters of his generation. He lives and works in [...]

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Author: Edited by Judith Nesbitt with contributions by Okwui Enwezor, Ekow Eshun and Atillah Springer, English, Monograph, Softcover, 255x210mm, full colour, 176pp,
Price: (ZA)R 360

American artist Julie Mehretu is celebrated for her large-scale paintings and drawings that layer abstract forms with familiar architectural imagery. Inspired by a multiyude of sources, including historical photographs, urban-planning grids, modernist structures and graffiti, these semi-abstract works explore the intersections of power, history, dystopia and the built environment, and transcommunal identities. This volume marks [...]

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Author: Julie Mehretu, Joann Young, Brian Dillon, English, Monograph, Softcover, 280x228mm, full colour, 128pp, ISBN: 9780892073962,
Price: (ZA)R 495

Top-shelf magazine meets fine art. High-heeled, fetishistic women parade through a world of Matissean colour. Allen Jones’s use of these apparent stereotypes has made him a controversial figure in the art world. Tackling issues of gender and power raised by his work, and including images of Jones’s source material and his own photography, this is [...]

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Author: Andrew Lambirth, English, Monograph, Softcover, Jacket, 290x245mm, full colour, 160pp, ISBN: 9781903973219,
Price: (ZA)R 550

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

A major figure in contemporary art, John Baldessari is widely considered one of the most influential artists to emerge since the mid-1960s. From his early text-and-image paintings to his more recent photo collages and installations, Baldessari has continued to make art that addresses the social impact of mass culture, often playfully through strategies of appropriation [...]

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Author: John Baldessari, English, Multimedia, Sofcover, 300x255mm, Black and white, colour,329pg,, ISBN: 9781854378224,
Price: (ZA)R 510.00

Extracts from an interview with Virginia MacKenny by Sam Alex

Sam Alex
In the exhibition ‘Crossing’ there is an image that recurs – that of a plane which appears to be sitting on water with passengers on its wings. Is that a fictive image?
Virginia Mackenny
No, very few of my images are fictive. Most of them [...]

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Virginia MacKenny’s show Crossing opened on 29 October at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg. The exhbition was opened by Wits Professor and fellow artist, Jeremy Wafer and on the 31st,  MacKenny hosted a walk-about at which she spoke about her motivations, techniques and subject matter.

Crossing will run until 25 November 2009. For further information on the [...]

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