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Agnes Martin: Independence of Mind by James Pitt (Text by); Jenn Shapland (Text by); Darcey Steinke (Text by); Martha Tuttle (Text by); Agnes Martin (Artist); Chelsea Weathers (Editor); Teju Cole (Text by); Bethany Hindmarsh (Text by); Jennie Jones (Text by)
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Contemporary artists and writers from Jennie C. Jones to Teju Cole consider Agnes Martin's influence and legacy This is a reenvisioned, fresh look at Agnes Martin, the enigmatic, influential, highly independent painter whose life and work have proved inspirational to audiences across many fields and di ...Show more
Black Paper - Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
$36.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Berlin Family Lectures | Reading Level: near fine
A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity--and witness the humanity of others--in a time of darkness. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Col ...Show more
Black Paper - Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
$27.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Berlin Family Lectures
A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity--and witness the humanity of others--in a time of darkness. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Col ...Show more
Blind Spot by Teju Cole
$55.00 AUD
Category: Photography
The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm, as he continues to refine the voice and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open Cit ...Show more
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. Like him, his childhood country has grown up quickly: found fast-food restaurants, email cafes, contempt for authority; the all-consuming draw of money for nothing. From the consulate in Manhattan to the dusty streets of Lagos, life in mode ...Show more
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A young man decides to visit Nigeria after years of absence. Ahead lies the difficult journey back to the family house and all its memories; meetings with childhood friends and above all, facing up to the paradox of Nigeria, whose present is as burdened by the past as it is facing a new future. Along th ...Show more
Fazal Sheikh and Teju Cole - Human Archipelago by Fazal Sheikh & Teju Cole
$70.00 AUD
Category: Photography
For more than 25 years Fazal Sheikh has highlighted the plight of displaced people and refugees around the world. He has photographed people driven from their homes by war as well as those upended by the redrawing of national borders and the reassertion of racial and ethnic divisions. Sheikh has also ma ...Show more
Fernweh by Teju Cole
$89.00 AUD
Category: Photography
The picturesque vistas and apparent stability of Switzerland have made it an elusive subject for contemporary photography. Over a five-year period (2014 – 2019), Cole found a distinctly new way to look at a country that has been the quintessence of tourist experience for almost two centuries. Fernweh mu ...Show more
Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole
$89.00 AUD
Category: Photography
“Many artists have felt the lure of juxtaposing photographs and text, but few have succeeded as well as Teju Cole. He approaches this problem with an understanding of the limitations and glories of each medium.” Stephen Shore In the period leading up to the November 3, 2020 elections in the United State ...Show more
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and ...Show more
Open City by Teju Cole
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender, Cole's "Open City" seethes with intelligence. Written in a clear, rhythmic voice that lingers, this is a mature, profound work by an important new author who has much to say about the country and the world.
Open City by Teju Cole
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A stunning and acclaimed debut novel following a young man's journey from Nigeria to Manhattan. 'The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few thing ...Show more