Celebrating and exploring architecture’s relationship with the diverse cultures and contemporary conditions of South Africa … A week of exhibitions, performances, films and multi-disciplinary conferences. Bringing architecture back to the public domain. Architecture ZA 2010 is set to become Africa’s premier urban culture festival as it brings together leading-edge thinkers and multi-disciplinary practitioners from [...]

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“The boundaries of Johannesburg are drifting away, sliding over pristine ridges and valleys, lodging in tenuous places, slipping again. At its edges, where the city fades momentarily into the veld, unimaginable new atmospheres evolve…” This half-made world besides the freeways, where Tuscan townhouses are jostled together with township matchboxes and shanties, is the setting for [...]

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Price: (ZA)R 140

This is a book about Johannesburg and one man’s place in it: a provocative, teasing, revealing, analytical and poetic text on the city and the life rooted in its concrete streets. A new high-water mark in Ivan Vladislavic’s writing, Portrait With Keys is a sprawling yet comprehensive portrait of his Joburg. His gaze roams freely [...]

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Author: Ivan Vladislavic, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 220x145mm, 212pp, ISBN: 9781415200209,
Price: (ZA)R 155

Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself. In 1977 Rian Malan, descendant of Daniel Francois Malan, South Africa’s first nationalist Prime Minister, and one of the master builders of apartheid, fled his homeland to live in America. Eight years later he returned from exile to [...]

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Author: Rian Malan, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 200x130mm, 426pp, ISBN: 9780099749004,
Price: (ZA)R 155

Erik Laubscher studied in London and Paris and returned to South Africa in 1951 with a strong Formalist grounding. His early paintings were influenced by Post-Cubist trends and the School of Paris. His studies under Fernand Léger would prove to be important and influence his work at a later stage. Erik Laubscher has represented South [...]

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Author: Dr Hans Fransen, Forword by Melvyn Minnaar Additional contributions by: Elza Miles Abraham H. De Vries Francesca Gayraud Laubscher, English, Monograph, Softcover, 299pp, 280x258mm, ISBN: 9780620415842,
Price: (ZA)R 400

David Krut Publishing is pleased to be participating in the second annual Jozi Book Fair, which runs at Museum Africa from Saturday, 7 August, through to Monday, 9 August 2010. The fair, which places an emphasis on independent publishing and writing, is set to take the Newtown cultural precinct by storm, with a radically diverse [...]

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An artist among the vines by Tim James on 8 November, 2009 – 22:36 William Kentridge, probably the country’s best-known artist, last week spent a few days visiting vineyards in the Swartland and some obscure valleys and far up the West Coast in the Olifants River region. With him and me were winemaker Eben Sadie [...]

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The South African Photography Starter Library includes monographs and anthologies of prolific SA photographers working in both an apartheid and post-apartheid milieu. Departure, Guy Tillim   Through My Lens, Alf Kumalo   Approach, Berni Searle   Messina/Musina, Pieter Hugo   Zip Zip my Brain Hart: Photographs by Angela Buckland   Soweto, Jodi Bieber   Shadow [...]

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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

South African creator of “drawings in motion” to receive $550,000 prize November 10 in Kyoto, Japan. KYOTO, JAPAN — June 18, 2010 — The non-profit Inamori Foundation (President: Dr. Kazuo Inamori) today announced that Mr. William Kentridge will receive its 26th annual Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy. Mr. Kentridge, 55, will receive the award [...]

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