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A History of Writing: From Heiroglyph to Multimedia

“Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible,” wrote celebrated artist Paul Klee. This History of Writing adopts the same principle – writing doesn’t reproduce speech, it makes it visible. Image-making evolved into writing and thereby governed the way it was used, as confirmed by the fact that the invention of ideograms was linked [...]

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Gerhard Richter: Writings 1961-2007

For a painter who has so successfully neutralized the declarative potential of his medium, Gerhard Richter has committed to print a surprisingly large amount of discussion on his work. Perhaps it is only natural that an artist whose painting incarnates the Cagean premise that there is nothing to communicate should be moved to address that [...]

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Southern African Literatures

AOM Southern African Literatures is a major study of the work of writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique and Namibia, written at a time of crucial change in the subcontinent.  It covers a wide range of work from the storytelling of stone-age Bushmen to modern writing by renowned figures such as Es’kia [...]

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Wordsetc – Third Quarter 2008

Mains Personal Notes – Arja Salafranca ruminates about her Spanish identity Essay – Anne Landsman knows about the curse of the second novel Profile – Pondering the legacy of Olive Schreiner, a pioneering feminist Essay – Five top black women writers give us a rich literary legacy Feature – Spotlight on a young brigade of [...]

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Wyndham Lewis – Richard Humphreys

Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the self-styled ‘Enemy’, was the most important British writer-artist of the twentieth-century. In this, the first introduction to explore Lewis’s work both as painter and a writer, Richard Humphreys examines his hugely varied output, and explains his ideas about art, life and politics. Leader of the Vorticist movement before the First World [...]

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Wordsetc – Second Quarter 2008

Es’kia Mphahlele, one of our country’s greatest writers, may be out of the limelight nowadays but he has given us so many books to savour and know his convictions as a writer and the often difficult life he has led. By Madala Thepa

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Claude Cahun: Disavowals

Claude Cahun (1894-1954, born Lucie Schwob) was a poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, actress, Surrealist, revolutionary artist and photographer. Although primarily a writer, the range of Cahun’s activities as an artist was rediscovered during the wave of interest in women artists, and more specifically Surrealism, during the 1980s. She is now known in the English [...]

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Making William Kentridge Flute

21st January 2008 by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

In April of 2007 I was finally, to my relief, seated with knees jammed into the backrest in front of me, at the BAM opera house in New York as the curtain rose on William Kentridge’s The Magic Flute. In its tour of Europe, the opera had changed slightly, absorbing some of the lessons of [...]

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Jean Dubuffet: Works, Writing, Interviews

As an enemy of culture and of the art of museums, Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was also an anarchist, an atheist, anti-military and unpatriotic. He was an explosive force, a rebel who rejected labels and categories, resolute in his quest for freedom from all constraints, and not incidentally one of the most remarkable artists of the [...]

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Justin Fox – Biography and Reviews

1st October 2007 by Administrator

Justin Fox is a travel writer and photographer for Getaway magazine. He was a Rhodes Scholar and received a doctorate in English literature from Oxford University (1995) after which he was a research fellow at the University of Cape Town, where he now teaches part time.

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