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

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE : Trace : Prints from The Museum of Modern Art

This visually compelling publication highlights The Museum of Modern Art’s unparalleled collection of prints and books by William Kentridge – nearly fifty works spanning the past three decades. The book also features a succession of artistic interventions made by Kentridge especially for the occasion. [...]

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Author: Judith B Hecker, English, Monograph, Hardcover, Jacket, 250x200mm, full colour, 112pp, ISBN: 9780870707797,
Price: (ZA)R 340

Paul Stopforth is currently full time visiting faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an artist who draws on memories and fragmented visions of South Africa, where he grew up. It is his positioning within the diaspora that plays a vital role in his image-making processes.
When he stepped [...]

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Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this catalogue examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II. Imagery ranges from powerful artistic impressions of the first fully [...]

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Author: Clifford S. Ackley, English, Art General, Hardcover, 248x223mm, full colour, 224pp, ISBN: 978-0500238479

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) is arguably the first truly international artist, a celebrity both during his own lifetime and since. A major artist of the northern Renaissance, he was praised by his contemporaries and described shortly after his death as ‘the prince among German painters’. Dürer’s achievements as a painter were matched by his remarkable manipulation [...]

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Unknown Author, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 190x160mm, full colour, 96pp, ISBN: 9780714126647,
Price: (ZA)R 180.00

Printmaking introduces the student to fundamental printmaking techniques including relief, intaglio, collagraph, lithography, screen print and monoprint and shows how they can be used to achieve cutting-edge results.
Since many students are now interested in combining digital media with traditional methods, this book will demonstrate how to use the computer as an image-making tool and translate [...]

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Author: Bill Flick and Beth Grabowski, English, Art General, Softcover, 292 x 220 mm, 240pp, 657 illustrations, ISBN: ISBN 978 1 85669 600 5,
Price: (ZA)R 395.00

running at iArt Gallery, 2 – 28 October, 2009
text by Jacqueline Nurse, taken from iArt Exhibitions

Colbert Mashile has been heralded as a contemporary African surrealist of sorts. His imagery has developed over the years into a sophisticated language of symbols and characters that are, although often almost recognisable, drawn completely from journeys into deep imagination. [...]

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Mexico witnessed an exciting revival of printmaking alongside its better-known public mural program in the decades after the 1910–20 revolution. Major artists such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo produced numbers of prints that furthered the social and political reforms of the revolution and helped develop a uniquely Mexican [...]

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Author: John Ittmann, English, Hardcover, 302pp, 305 x 235mm, ISBN: 978 0300120042,
Price: (ZA)R 585.00

Richard Diebenkorn is an expanded edition of Gerald Nordland’s authoritative study of the painter, first published in 1987 and now reissued by Rizzoli, a leading publisher of fine-art books. Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, long ago entered the pantheon of great modernist artists. He was an early abstract expressionist, then went through a less successful [...]

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Author: Gerald Nordland, English, Hardcover, 280pp, 325x265mm, ISBN: 9780847823482,
Price: (ZA)R 850.00

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