David Krut Publishing is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of William Kentridge Nose. This book accompanies the launch of a suite of thirty new limited-edition prints by Kentridge called ‘Nose’, the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the artist and David Krut Print Workshop.
In December 2006, Jillian Ross began her collaboration with William Kentridge [...]

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Author: William Kentridge, English, Monograph, Hardcover, Jacket, 30 colour images, 72pp, ISBN: 978-0-9814328-6-1,
Price: (ZA)R 210

Imraan Coovadia: Sixth edition of Wordsetc hits bookshelves
 “Coovadia’s work hardly shies away from including troubling contemporary issues, including the inevitable twinning of race and political life in South Africa (and the myriad hues in which this link appears); the ambiguous position of Indians living outside of the Subcontinent – their ability to fit between [...]

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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

Scorched is a vivid journey through South Africa’s mesmerising landscape as climate changes sets in. It wanders through the KwaZulu Natal Midlands to capture the last faltering calls of a rain frog that was named after the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

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Author: Leonie Joubert, English, NonArt, Softcover, 264pp, 210 x 190mm, Full colour illustrated, ISBN: 978 1868144372,
Price: (ZA)R 180.00

The first book to explore the complex relationship between law and literature in testimony to crimes of apartheid before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Ambiguities of Witnessing closely analyzes key individual testimonies.

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Author: MarkSanders, English, NonArt, Softcover, 280pp, 156 x 235mm, ISBN: 978 1868144600,
Price: (ZA)R 230.00

JESSICA WEBSTER – I KNEW YOU IN THIS DARK
30 JULY – 29 AUGUST 2009
The show was opened by Professor Penny Siopis
David Krut Projects is pleased to present young Johannesburg artist Jessica Webster on the occasion of her MAFA graduation exhibition. Four years of rigorous academic study and studio practice culminate in a show of [...]

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For much of its 83–year history, the Rand Daily Mail was the most controversial newspaper in South Africa. Fearless and forthright, the newspaper dug where other publications did not, exposing stories – like the Information Scandal – that other newspapers were afraid to print. Under editors like Laurence Gandar, Raymond Louw and Allister Sparks, the [...]

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Author: Rex Gibson, English, NonArt, Softcover, 208pp, 230 x 155mm, ISBN: 978 0864867100,
Price: (ZA)R 215.00

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Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to [...]

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Author: Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe, English, NonArt, Softcover, 978 1868144730, 240 x 160mm, 400pp, ISBN: 978 1868144730,
Price: (ZA)R 230.00

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This original book is a much needed and far reaching exploriration of post-apartheid South african life world. Entanglement aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inetia, of loss, violence and xenophobia as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises the present.

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Author: Sarah Nutall, English, NonArt, Softcover, 220 x 150mm, 216pp, ISBN: 978 1868144761,
Price: (ZA)R 230.00

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In 2001 South Africa was devastated by the news of a brutal rape of a nine-month-old child who came to be known as baby Tshepang. The media reported that she has been gang raped by a group of six men.

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Author: Lara Foot Newton, English, NonArt, Softcover, 200 x 130mm, 64pp, ISBN: 978 1868144151,
Price: (ZA)R 100.00