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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439238745Author George Odera OutaFormat PaperbackImprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737182856Author Magdalene SacranieFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Charter for CompassionPublisher Charter for CompassionWeight(grams) 553g

Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932828170Author Christa ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Newark MuseumPublisher Newark MuseumWeight(grams) 2472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994706911Author Phumla Xuza KhanyileFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Classic Age PublishingPublisher Classic Age PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667861043Author Ramses FrancoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint BookbabyPublisher BookbabyWeight(grams) 152g

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839989360Author Pamela A. MullinsFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

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...

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...

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,...

This was the first International Conference specifically devoted to the study of Ethiopian art. The Proccedings of the Conference makes available papers devoted to the study of Ethiopian art, as distinct from papers on other aspects of Ethiopian life and...

When Zulu women potters innovate or move to a more urban setting, they are asked why they have abandoned tradition. Yet when they continue to follow convention or choose to stay in rural areas, art historians speak of their work as unchanging symbols of...

Over the centuries, craftsmen have applied their creativity and technical skills to exploit the generous resources of Nature to marvellous effect. In this case they have employed seeds, leaves, flowers and fibres from the plant world, along with...

Micro Monumentality is the first title in a new series, Micro-Africa, which aims to highlight the artistic and cultural value of miniature objects made in Africa. The whole series will be based on a single private collection. Forthcoming titles will be...

Long awaited by collectors, scholars, and enthusiasts, this book illustrates the bronze pieces, most of which have never before been published, collected by Syrop during more than 40 years of passionate, attentive, and untiring research. An architect by...

Shaheen Merali's oeuvre extends from large-scale installations to remapping colonial history through collages and batiks. Acutely aware of how popular culture acts as a carrier of social prejudice and invective, his work is exercised specifically by the...

How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? Across South Africa, statues commemorating figures such as Cecil Rhodes have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788495951908Author Alfredo JaarFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint ActarD IncPublisher ActarD IncWeight(grams) 760g

George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts- poet, historian, ethnographer and prolific writer. A geologist by profession, he became acquainted, through his work in the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock art paintings in the caves and...

This is a concise edition of The Visual Encyclopedia of Art: African Art, also published by Welcome Rain (978-1-56649-978-1). Please see that title for a complete description. We are pleased to offer more than twenty titles in this series.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864866790Author Ed EastwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd

This book traces Dadakuada's history and artistic vision and discusses its vibrancy as the most popular traditional Yoruba oral art form in Islamic Africa. Foregrounding the role of Dadakuada in Ilorin, and of Ilorin in Dadakuada the book covers the...

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...

Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of...

Western Frontiers of African Art navigates the problems and prospects of prometheusis in creative cultural productions. Artists, writers, musicians, and other creative practitioners share icons, ideas, images, and paraphernalia across cultures, mediums,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474443760Author Virginie ReyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Passion, intellectual curiosity, and intuition inspired His Royal Majesty Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe CFR, over a period of 40 years, to collect and support artists from his native Onitsha, southeastern Nigeria, Ghana, the broader West African region,...

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...

Inventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair, disappointment, and rage at the injustice that South Africa's colonial and apartheid histories continue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462703582Author Sarah HegenbartFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 455g

World is Africa brings together more than 30 important texts by Eddie Chambers, who for several decades has been an original and a critical voice within the field of African diaspora art history. The texts range from book chapters and catalogue essays,...

This volume is dedicated to fictional negotiations of future, or rather futureS. After all, ‘future’ cannot but exist in a multitude of complementary and/or competing futures, all causally related to each other just as much as to their pasts and their...

The masks in this book, all presented by two or more images, are accompanied by brief commentaries that offer readers — be they scholars or enthusiasts — an insight into these veritable masterpieces of African art, which in most cases boast an...

This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa’s creative heritage. Africanism, which is driven by a traumatic response to colonialism in Africa, has an...

Mwili, Akili Na Roho: Ten Figurative Painters from East Africa features the work of ten artists from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, including Sam Ntiro, Elimo Njau, Asaph Ng’ethe Macua, Jak Katarikawe, Theresa Musoke, Sane Wadu, Peter Mulindwa, Chelenge...

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...

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...

Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance? is the first publication on the work of Zina Saro-Wiwa, a British-Nigerian video artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Occupying the space between documentary and performance, Saro-Wiwa's...

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...