Haunted – Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passe or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter and technologies, these arts can embody a [...]

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Author: Jennifer Blessing, Peggy Phelan and Nat Trotman, English, Art General, Hardcover, 208pp, 280 x 228, ISBN: 9780892073986,
Price: (ZA)R 360

Here is great review of William Kentridge’s recent performance at Performa in yesterday’s New York Times by Roberta Smith.  Genevieve, David, Phil Sanders (of Robert Blackburn) and myself had the pleasure of  seeing the performance last Tuesday.  It was an invigorating and beautiful performance. November 11, 2009, 6:19 pm Performa 09: William Kentridge on Divided [...]

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Described by international curator Okwui Enwezor as “one of the most dynamic and vigorous spaces of artistic practice”, contemporary South African art is an exciting, emerging scene that is attracting the attention of international museums, curators, and collectors today.

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Author: Sue Williamson, English, Art General, Hardcover, 320pp,, ISBN: 9781770097216,
Price: (ZA)R 695.00

Born in South Africa in 1976, Berlin-based Robin Rhode uses the barest of means to comment on urban poverty, the politics of leisure and the commodification of youth cultures. Drawing plays a crucial role in his inventive, witty and playful performances, photographs and video animations, which are often created on the street, and entail Rhode, [...]

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In Art and the End of Apartheid, John Peffer considers in-depth the work of black South African artists in the decades leading up to the end of apartheid in 1994. Peffer examines painting and graphic art, photography, avant-garde and performance art, and popular and protest art through artist collectives, such as the Thupelo Art Project [...]

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Author: John Peffer, English, Art General, Softcover, 340pp, 252 x 176mm,, ISBN: 9780816650026

   Film director Revel Fox spent time gathering footage of various artists and their work during the installation of Spier Contemporary 2007 toward what will be the second and third DVDs in a series of Taxi Art Films to be produced by David Krut Publishing.

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Author: TAXI Art Films, English, Multimedia, DVD, PAL/Full Colour, ISBN: 978-0-9814188-4-1 / 978-0-9814188-5-8,
Price: (ZA)R 150.00

Spier Contemporary opened at the Johannesburg Art Gallery on Saturday 15 March. The show was housed in a series of shipping containers at the Spier wine estate in Stellenbosch but now fills the spacious rooms of the JAG. Those fortunate enough to have seen the show in Cape Town should not miss its Joburg run: [...]

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Author: Clive van den Berg, Jay Pather, English, Art General, Hard Cover,22,5x 24,5mm,268 Pages, Colour Illustrations,,
Price: (ZA)R 200.00

‘RoseLee Goldberg has charted new territory … a continuous development of enormous consequence to the most adventurous twentieth-century art’
– Robert Rosenblum

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Author: Roselee Goldberg, English, Anthology, Soft cover, 205x145mm, 232 pp, 186 illustrations, ISBN: 978 0500 203392,
Price: (ZA)R 160.00

Multimedia artist, Nathaniel Stern moves without hesitation into the unfamiliar ground of traditional printmaking in his new portfolio series – response.

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Boyle Family have worked together for more than 30 years producing an art that scrutinises and replicates fragments of reality. Mark Boyle and Joan Hills began making assemblages in the early 1960s. In 1964 they started their life-long project Journey to the

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Unknown Author, English, Multimedia, DVD: PAL, Region 0, 26 minutes, ISBN: 5060033833391,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00