Browsing Category Biography
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Carruthers (J.) & Arnold (M.)
THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS BAINES,
184 pp., oblong 4to., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w.,
Reprint, Cape Town,
(1995) 2000.
OUT OF PRINT
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Thomas Baines, artist and explorer, was born in England in 1820. He travelled extensively in what is now South Africa, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana & Zimbabwe and died in Durban in 1875. He wrote journals and letters and produced vast numbers of sketches and paintings, many of which are reproduced in this book.
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Cole (E.) photo. & text
HOUSE OF BONDAGE,
192 pp., 4to., illus., hardback, d.w.,
New York,
1967.
R950
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Introduction by Jospeh Lelyveld.
Thomas Flaherty worked with Ernest Cole on the text.
Ernest Cole was born near Pretoria in 1940. He left South Africa in 1966 to live in exile, carrying with him thousands of photographs documenting life in apartheid South Africa in the 1960s.
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de Vries (F.)
THE FRED DE VRIES INTERVIEWS,
from Abdullah to ZIlle
325 pp., illus., paperback,
Johannesburg,
2008.
R180
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Journalist and author Fred de Vries interviews artists Vusi Beauchamp, Jodie Bieber, Kudzanai Chiurai, Karl Gietl, Anton Kannemeyer, Maja Maljevic and Hermann Niebuhr, art agent Jeanetta Blignaut, collector curator Warren Siebrits and gallerist Henri Vergon, amongst others.
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Dubow (N.) ed.
PARADISE,
the journal and letters (1917-1933) of Irma Stern
112 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w.,
Cape Town,
1991.
R450
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Based on a previously unpublished journal kept by Irma Stern between 1919 and 1924 and on letters from the artist to a German friend and confidante, Trude Bosse. The richly illustrated journal is reproduced, with a translation and commentary.
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Emslie (A.)
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE OWL HOUSE,
148 pp., illus., paperback,
Johannesburg,
1997.
R140
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The Owl House, in the isolated Karoo village of Nieu Bethseda, South Africa, was transformed by its owner, the reclusive Helen Martins. The garden is filled with concrete sculptures and the walls of the house are coated in colour and crushed glass.
