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A group of books that we recommend as great gifts. There is something for everyone a combination of fashion, children's books, cooking, art and photography.
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David Krut Bookstores
151 Jan Smuts Parkwood Johannesburg
263 Fox Street Arts on Main Johannesburg Central
Montebello Design Centre 31 Newlands Avenue Cape
Town
Christmas Package
To make your Christmas shopping easier this year we have put together a package of books that you could gift to a number of people in your life. This is a series of
books we recommend, that are great gifts for children, parents, partners and friends. Each book is from a different category from our bookstores, of course they are
available individually as well as in this set. You are welcome to order offline or come into one of our stores and browse the wide variety of creative books we carry.
Total Value R1900
Package Special R1550
Make Your Mark Sarah Richardson
ISBN 9781849760119
Softcover
275 x 210mm
80pp
R150
Written and hand drawn by award-winning author Sarah Richardson, Make
Your Mark is part drawing manual and part activity book, designed to build
confidence and unlock creativity in all who use it.
Rather than providing too many prescriptive instructions, Make Your Mark
functions as a drawing aid, taking its readers on a creative journey. Beginning
with the joys of scribbling, they learn how to create tone, line, shape, texture
and pattern, eventually arriving at the more sophisticated principles involved
in drawing animals and people and mastering perspective.
Unlike so many practical art books, which tend to be dreary and poorly
designed, Make Your Mark is as visually stimulating as it is thought provoking
and fun to use. Drawing on her extensive experience of teaching art to both
adults and children, Sarah Richardson’s use of her own drawings and
photographs brings a vitality and freshness to the book’s pages which are as
inspiring as her concise and pithy texts. Through its wide range of activities
and creative challenges, this book will help young artists discover their own
potential, giving them the confidence to go ahead and make their mark.
Sarah Richardson is an artist who has taught art in a number of London
schools, as well as teaching on courses for PGCE student teachers at
Goldsmiths and the Institute of Education. She is the author of the best-
selling Art in a Box, which won the 2006 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold
Award in the USA.
Let’s Make Some Great Art Marion Deuchars
ISBN 9781856697866
Softcover
288 x 209 mm
224pp
R200
In this interactive colouring and activity book, Marion Deuchars takes the broad canvas of art and fills it with drawings and activities that engage with what art can be, how it can be
made, what it can mean for you and what it has meant for people through the ages. Aimed at children aged eight and older, the emphasis is on fun and making the creation of art
an integral part of the way you express yourself.
Gypset Style Julia Chaplin
ISBN 9782759403967
Hardcover
275x185mm
180pp
R540
Yuppies, Yippies, Jet Setters, Bright
Young Things, Generation X,
Generation Y... and now the Gypset.
Fusing the ease and carefree lifestyle of
a gypsy with the sophistication of the
jet set, the Gypsetters are artists,
surfers, designers, and bon vivants who
live and work around the globe, from
Jose Ignacio, Uruguay and Ibiza, Spain,
to Montauk, New York. Gypset Style
explores the unconventional,
wanderlust lives of these high-low
cultural nomads and the bohemian
enclaves they inhabit, as well as their
counterculture forbears, such as the
Victorian explorers, the Lost
Generation, the Beatniks, and the
hippies. And along the way, author Julia
Chaplin looks back at quintessential
gypsy boho moments in social history.
Braai - Reuben on Fire Reuben Riffel, Tudor Caradoc-Davies, Photography: Craig Fraser
ISBN 9780987028457
Softcover
255 x 200mm
218pp
R380
Reuben takes you on a roadtrip through his past from hunting and cooking pigeons on the
farms of Franschhoek as a kid, to his travels. In Braai, Reuben on Fire, he challenges you to lift
your game above the simple tanning of a chop and burning of boerie.
Delving into the business of naming rights, the politics of the braai, the logistics of the braai
timeline and the importance of developing a relationship with your butcher, Reuben covers the
basics before getting into the meat of the matter. Throughout the book tips and tactics and wine
and beer food pairings are dispersed liberally while braai myths are blown out of the water.
The dishes are unmistakably South African in flavour and feel. From new versions of standard
rockstar South African ingredients to digging deep into the spectrum of what is possible on a
braai, Braai − Reuben on Fire is a book for any braai fan keen to take their skills to the next level.
South African artist William Kentridge is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, and theatre and
opera productions. He is also an innovative and prolific printmaker – of etchings, engravings, aquatints,
silkscreens, linocuts and lithographs – often experimenting with challenging formats and combinations of
printing techniques to create highly worked, intensely atmospheric imagery. His prints range in scale from
intimate etchings and drypoints to linocuts on rice paper and canvas measuring over eight feet high and are
reproduced on a variety of materials, a tactile approach which is echoed in the design and production of this
volume.
This unique and beautifully presented book includes almost 100 prints from 1988 to the present, with a
stress on experimental, collaborative and serial works. Kentridge’s distinctive use of light and shadow and
silhouettes, his concern with memory and perspective, and his absorption in literary texts are all strongly in
evidence throughout this book, which provides new insights into the working methods of this prolific artist.
A Universal Archive – William Kentridge as
Printmaker ISBN 9780958497589
ISBN 9780958497589
Softcover
245 x 210 mm
144pp
R200
Graffiti School – A Student Guide ISBN 9780500290972
Hardcover
297 x 210mm
176pp
R235
The step-by-step demonstrations of techniques
are surprisingly comprehensive, making this a
perfect birthday or Christmas present for a
teenage relative with a creative streak
Find out how to:
• design your own letter style
• use effects to create a unique tag
• create throw-ups
• include fills and motifs
• paint wild style, bubble style and blockbusters
• build up large burners
• handle a spray can
• get your work up safely and legally
It contains:
• plans for lessons on graffiti – theory and
practice
• practical advice for staging safe, hands-on
graffiti lessons
• guidance on marking students’ work
• resources covering the origins and cultural
history of graffiti
• clear step-by-step explanations to suit students
of all abilities
• exercises and solutions
Under the Sway Justin Fox
ISBN
Hardcover
276x265mm
144pp
R140
Under the Sway Justin Fox
ISBN
Hardcover
276x265mm
144pp
R140
Bewitched by Mozambique’s
dazzling beauty, its alluring
architecture, multihued seascapes,
rambunctious markets and harbours
with antiquated sailing craft, travel
writer Justin Fox set out to capture
all of these in his latest book, a
hardcover, full-colour photographic
feast accompanied by a compelling
text. Under the Sway offers you
glimpses of a country, captured by a
traveller who has traversed its highs
and lows, unembroidered and
unembellished. The photographer is
a craftsman who takes us along on a
photographic journey from the deep
south of Ponto de Oura to the wild
north at Entre Lagos in a sweeping
exploration of this impressive
country. Under the Sway is a visually
striking, beautifully designed and
highly personal depiction of a
glorious land whose popularity with
tourists – from South Africa in
particular – continues to grow in
leaps and bounds.
Recommended