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Front cover image The Art of Daily Life Portable Objects from Southeast Africa Constantine Petridis, with an essay by Karel Nel In stock 9788874395781 Paperback with flaps 5 Continents Editions Territory: World excluding Italy Size: 285 mm x...

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African art -- with its powerful forms, complex symbolism, and formal inventiveness -- has only recently come to be recognized as one of the great artistic traditions of mankind. This rich tradition is showcased here in a remarkable selection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460221194Author Paul FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 872g

In previous studies, Jan Strybol pointed out that - contrary to popular belief - sculpture flourished in northern Nigeria. Wood sculptures could be found just about everywhere, with the exception of part of the Far North. In this study, the author first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615510941Author Daniel LeersFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Samuel Dorsky Museum of ArtPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

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...

The tradition of the veil, which refers to various cloth coverings of the head, face, and body, has been little studied in Africa, where Islam has been present for more than a thousand years. These lively essays raise questions about what is distinctive...

African fashion is as diverse and dynamic as the continent and the people who live there. While experts have long recognized the importance of clothing as a marker of ethnic identity, life stages, political affiliation, and social class, they have only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870707568Author Judith B. HeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987029300Author Eleanor Preston-WhyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Publishing Print MattersPublisher Publishing Print Matters

A contemporary African artist's call for democracyBotswana-born Meleko Mokgosi is an emerging contemporary artist whose large-scale figurative paintings are garnering growing accolades and attention worldwide. In all his work, Mokgosi emphasizes...

This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender. Charmaine A. Nelson poses critical questions about the contexts of production, the...

From the hands of Pippa Skotnes and her team who produced the beautiful and acclaimed Jacana books on the San and their rock art, Claim to the Country and Unconquerable Spirit, comes a smaller but equally handsome volume on rock art copies made by the...

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...

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...

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 Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga...

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...

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...

On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Discovered in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and...

Living in the region between the Lubudi and Kasai rivers in south central Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Luluwa people are known for their elaborately carved male and female figure sculptures, masks, and decorative arts. Constantine Petridis draws...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857246550Author Ashraf JamaFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692595046Author Kathy CurnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Galleries at CSUPublisher Galleries at CSUWeight(grams) 875gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995646049Author Cherno Omar BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Global Hands PublishingPublisher Global Hands PublishingWeight(grams) 148g

An expansive look at more than a century of Pan-Africanist art and the ways it embodies the movement’s principles and global ambitions Since the term Pan-Africanism was coined around 1900, the movement’s promise has been to foster liberation and...

A captivating exploration of the life and work of the iconic South African artist Esther Mahlangu, one of the great innovators of Pan-African Contemporary Art. Esther Mahlangu (b. 1935) is globally acclaimed for her bright and bold abstract paintings...

An intimate historical portrait of the women of Nubia and their unique house decorations including over 400 full color and black and white photographs Between 1960 and 1970 the building of the Aswan Dam led to the creation of a lake that drowned the...

This collection explores the dynamic place of Muslim visual and expressive culture in processes of decolonization across the African continent. Presenting new methodologies for accentuating African agency and expression in the stories we tell about...

In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca École des Beaux-Arts, transforming the colonial relic into a zeitgeist of Moroccan modernism. Casablanca School artists, including Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa,...

In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca École des Beaux-Arts, transforming the colonial relic into a zeitgeist of Moroccan modernism. Casablanca School artists, including Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa,...