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A Passionate Vision
"Irma Stern grew up on a farm in Schweizer-Reneke, playing with insects in the dust and admiring the dry flowers. It was not until she was a young woman, living in Berlin, that she realized how deeply the arid landscape of her childhood had inspired in her a passion for Africa which was to reach its full expression in her art. Fighting the conventions of her day and the scorn of art critics, Irma worked hard to establish herself, travelling to exotic and remote locations to find inspiration for her art. By the time she died, her reputation as one of South Africa's most foremost artists was sealed and today her paintings are highly sought-after all over the world."--Back cover.
Paradise
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Irma Stern and the Racial Paradox of South African Modern Art
South African artist Irma Stern (1894–1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than fifty years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.
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Drawn to Paper
Piano Nobile is pleased to present Drawn to Paper: Degas to Rego, a publication showcasing works on paper by some of the leading figures of European modernism. The selection is built around a group of works from a private collection and have not been seen in public since they were acquired in the 1970s and early '80s. At the heart of the collection is a group of works made by leading artists on the mid-twentieth-century Paris art scene, including the American Alexander Calder and Spaniards Picasso, Dalí and Miró, as well as the French artists Raoul Dufy and Fernand Léger. The publication is a fully-illustrated booklet with a prefatory essay and catalogue entries.
Hidden Cape Town
A unique look ‘inside’ 30 of Cape Town’s most notable buildings. If you have ever wondered what lies behind an interesting façade, or wished you could peek behind a closed door, Hidden Cape Town is the book for you. The author and photographer have collaborated to reveal the architectural secrets and artworks that lie behind the doors of some well-known, and lesser known, landmark buildings in and around the ‘Mother City’. These buildings are part of our collective heritage, reflecting the myriad cultural influences that have shaped our country.
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