Chris Spring

The book's mission: to illuminate Africa's immanesely fertile artisitc landscape. "The book brings together more than 60 of Africa's most creative contemporary artists. Their work leaps off the page with more than 350 colour images. In addition to painters, culptors and photographers, there are also a numebr of artists whose work embraces performance and installation. This is the first book on contemporary AFrican art to harness teh creative energy pulsating from not only continent but also from the rich glorbal community that has developed outside."

Suzanne Brooker

"Portrait Painting Atelier is an essential resource for an art community still recovering from a time when solid instruction in art technique was unavailable in our schools. Of particular value here is a demonstration of the Old Masters' technique of layering paint over a toned-ground surface, a process that builds from the transparent dark areas to the more densely painted lights. 

This is the first book in many years to so comprehensively cover the concepts and techniques of traditional portraiture."

Jenny Holzer

"Among America's best-known artists, Holzer analyses the power of language in disembodied, glowing texts enunciated by an unstable register of personae: in this the voice of an ad-man, a stand-up comic, a torturer, an evangelist? In examining her three main preoccupations - sex, death and war - with unflinching insightfulness, Holzer has invented a public address system which questions our willingness to absorb messages as it examines the very choice of authority - authority's potential to be at once straightforward and ambiguous, comforting and threatening. "