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A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and...

Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? In order to answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined some of the world's finest rock art, that of the San of southern Africa. For...

A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and...

Winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies AssociationThe Benue River Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. A vast region,...

Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaire. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857220246Author Amanda M. MaplesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2880g

The unique cultural landscape of southern Africa (Nambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa) is a highly dynamic and complex area where old traditions are confronted by explosive social and political upheavals. The resulting contradictions...

Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaire. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887470731Author Florian KnotheFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art GalleryPublisher The...

El Hadji Sy is one of the most significant figures in African contemporary art. Since the late 1970s, the Senegalese artist and curator has helped shape the country's thriving art scene through his innovative painting and performance art. But El Sy is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873654050Author Lisa BernasekFormat PaperbackImprint Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.Publisher Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U...

In 1960, Eberhard Fischer had the opportunity to accompany his father, the art ethnologist Hans Himmelheber, on a major expedition to West Africa. He was actually only meant to film the Dan mask carvers as they worked, as well as their festive...

The Visual Arts of Africa: Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals presents a broad geographical coverage of the rich, diverse art traditions found on the vast continent of Africa. It is designed for single-semester survey courses on African Art, and can...

Born in Cotonou, Benin in 1961, Meschac Gaba moved to the Netherlands in 1996 to take up a residency at the Rijksakademie. It was there that he conceived The Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997-2002, an ambitious work, which took him five years to...

A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the...

A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today...

A single Congo does not exist - or is in any case fictitious. Yet the Democratic Republic of Congo has an extraordinarily vibrant art scene that attracts great interest from around the world. Nowhere else in Africa art production is as manifold in form,...

In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these...

This is the first book dedicated to African powderglass beads, with over 180 photographs of pieces from a collection assembled by songwriter Billy Steinberg (co-writer of Madonna's Like a Virgin). Most of the pieces showcased in this volume are West...

The first publication on the Yoruba master sculptor Moshood Olusomo BamigboyeBamigboye: A Master Sculptor of the Yoruba Tradition is the first monograph dedicated to the 50-year career of the Nigerian artist Moshood Olusomo Bamigboye (ca. 1885-1975). One...

New perspectives on early globalisms from objects and imagesTales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century. Reflected in objects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957050808Author Claude BoucherFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Kungoni Centre of Culture and ArtPublisher Kungoni Centre of Culture and Art

The ethnographic literature of the 20th century focused mainly on the sculptural traditions of the numerous ethnic groups that populated Southern Nigeria while the more northern areas remained largely terra incognita. In 2013 Jan Strybol published a...

Artists of Nigeria analyses the influence of different art systems (museums, cultural institutions, art fairs, galleries, the internet) and cultures on the development of modern and contemporary Nigerian art in the past 100 years. Organised...

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, at a time of turmoil when art was undergoing unprecedented upheaval, the West, and especially France, began to turn its eyes towards distant cultures until then largely neglected. Artists were in the throes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734879773Author Latoya NicoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Precise Publishing Inc.Publisher Precise Publishing Inc.Weight(grams)...

A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the...

Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand...

Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911221210Author Ruth FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Balestier PressPublisher Balestier PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Art lovers well know the works of the different groups of peoples generally referred to as 'Guro' who live in the centre of the Ivory Coast. Close to the Wan, Baule, Yaure, and Bete, the Guro have maintained close contacts with their neighbours, and...

Everywhere in the world there is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. To date, few scholars have explored what clothing means in 20th-century Africa and the diaspora. In Fashioning Africa, an international group of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496015918Author Andreas EckertFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 1547g

Long overlooked, Zulu Basketry is the first comprehensive pictorial record of a craft form that has endured political change in education and empowered basket weavers with a sustainable means of making a living. Zulu Basketry focuses on contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214389Author Bolaji CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 390g

Print has always been an art form for everyone - relatively cheap to produce and easy to distribute, and intended to be accessible to all. It links to painting, and creative autographic expression, as well as to a tradition of satire and protest, both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989371810Author Jan-Lodewijk GrootaersFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Books & ProjectsPublisher Books & ProjectsWeight(grams) 1202g

The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna Simpson, are drawn from the renowned collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through exhibitions, public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912675753Author Aryla PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Aryla PublishingPublisher Aryla PublishingWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...