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Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394723693Author Robert Farris ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
African Artists: From 1882 to Now by Phaidon Editors
RRP: $104.90$82.61As featured in the New York Times, ARTnews, Colossal, Metropolis and New York Magazine's The StrategistA groundbreaking A-Z survey of the work of over 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in AfricaModern and Contemporary African art is at... -
African Art Ezio Bassani 9788857208695
RRP: $94.50$62.94An illustrated study of African traditional figurative arts that reflects the continent's rich artistic and cultural heritage. We often know the "Western life" of African art, such as the names of collectors and owners, but we almost always ignore the... -
Irma Stern: African in Europe - European in Africa by Sean O'Toole
RRP: $41.98$30.83The vivid and powerful expressionist paintings of Irma Stern were a key factor in the modernization of early 20th-century South African art. Although she was widely recognized during her lifetime, Stern's posthumous fame has dwindled outside her home... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745346229
RRP: $27.28$18.06New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind... -
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips 9780861543137
RRP: $23.08$16.32A Prospect Best Book of 2021 'A fascinating and timely book.' William Boyd 'Gripping...a must read.' FT 'Compelling...humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.' Evening Standard '[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.' The Times ... -
African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century Osei Bonsu 9781781578384
RRP: $84.00$58.28Over the past two decades contemporary African art has taken its rightful place on the world stage. Today, African artists work outside the confines of limiting categories and outdated perceptions; they produce art that is as much a reflection of... -
Africa and Byzantium by Andrea Myers Achi 9781588397713
RRP: $105.00$92.51The first exploration of the artistic and cultural intersections of the African continent and the Byzantine world Medieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but less known are the profound artistic contributions of... -
The History of African Art by Suzanne Preston Blier 9780500296257
RRP: $27.28$18.06A concise, accessible and up-to-date overview of the arts of Africa from prehistoric times to the present day. This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 150,000 years ago to the... -
Arts and Crafts of Morocco by James F. Jereb 9780500278307
RRP: $35.68$25.07Superbly illustrated with more than 150 specially commissioned colour photographs, this book beautifully demonstrates the dazzling strengths of Morocco's crafts - a centuries-long tradition which intermingles influences from both Black Africa and Islam,... -
Early Art and Architecture of Africa by Peter Garlake
RRP: $49.33$34.88This new history of over 5000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Peter Garlake uses the latest research and... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745341767
RRP: $52.50$35.24Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all... -
Forest of A Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga by D. O. Fagunwa 9780872866300
RRP: $25.18$18.90"His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'"--Wole Soyinka, translator... -
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time by Jonathan Kingdon
RRP: $63.00$43.11A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on... -
Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other Elissa Auther 9783777440965
RRP: $88.20$57.52This is the first volume to document and contextualize Sonya Clark's large-scale, collaborative artworks. These projects demonstrate Clark's career-long commitment to addressing the urgent issue of racial inequality in American society and her philosophy... -
Black Art: A Cultural History by Richard J. Powell 9780500203620
RRP: $62.90$46.43This groundbreaking book explores the visual representations of black culture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. From blues to rap, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video pieces of Keith Piper and Steve McQueen,... -
When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting by Koyo Kouoh
RRP: $94.50$64.79A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year: a major study of Black figurative art from Africa and the African diaspora, covering 100 years from the early 20th century to now. Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, this book... -
El Anatsui: Art and Life by Susan M Vogel
RRP: $94.50$70.16El Anatsui: Art and Life by Susan Mullin Vogel is the essential resource on the Ghanaian artist known worldwide for spectacular tapestries of reclaimed bottle tops. This revised and expanded book follows Anatsui on his remarkable journey from an obscure... -
That Which is Not Drawn: Conversations by William Kentridge
RRP: $35.68$30.68For more than three decades, artist William Kentridge has explored in his work the nature of subjectivity, the possibilities of revolution, the Enlightenment's legacy in Africa, and the nature of time itself. At the same time, his creative work has... -
African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent by John Gillow
RRP: $52.50$36.50Now available in a compact paperback edition, this book remains the most comprehensive survey of African textiles on the market today, illustrating in over 570 spectacular colour photographs the traditional, handcrafted, indigenous textiles of the whole... -
The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim
RRP: $18.88$13.55'Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented' Taiye Selasi 'Adept, admirable, important' Guardian Maya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother: a whirlwind,... -
Shoe Shop by Marie-Helene Gutberlet
RRP: $46.20$38.60Beginning with the struggle revolving around the ideas that surround public art in South Africa, this book aims to create a critical and thoughtful space in which to consider film, photography, and literature related to migration on the African continent... -
The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia by Judith S. McKenzie
RRP: $104.90$100.30The three Garima Gospels are the earliest surviving Ethiopian gospel books. They provide glimpses of lost late antique luxury gospel books and art of the fifth to seventh centuries, from the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia. This book reproduces all of the... -
Contemporary African Art Sidney Littlefield Kasfir 9780500293591
RRP: $31.40$21.38Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by any particular style, technique or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude towards art-making,... -
The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity by Joan Kee
RRP: $63.00$49.75A groundbreaking method for writing art history, using the language of geometry. How do we embark on a history of art from the assumption of a global majority, outside of essentializing categories like race or hollow proclamations of solidarity? With... -
African Print Inspired Fashion For Him Coloring Book by Alicia L McDaniel 9780999557327
RRP: $16.78$15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999557327Author Alicia L McDanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Alicia McDaniel Fine ArtPublisher Alicia McDaniel Fine ArtWeight(grams)... -
Picasso: Painting the Blue Period by Pablo Picasso
RRP: $105.00$85.49New insights into Picasso's Blue Period, through innovative technology that reveals hidden compositions, motifs and alterations, plus hitherto unknown information on the artist's materials and process This lavishly illustrated volume reexamines Pablo... -
African Textiles Today by Chris Spring
RRP: $63.00$44.10A fascinating insight into the living history of Africa. African textiles are patterned with stories that range far beyond the time of the creation or the lifetime of their creator. In Africa, cloth is used to commemorate important events, people or... -
Zanele Muholi Sarah Allen 9781849766821
RRP: $67.20$47.65Explore the stunning, moving, and exciting work of visual artist-activist Zanele Muholi Born in South Africa in 1972, Zanele Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans,... -
African Designs from Traditional Sources by Geoffrey Williams 9780486227528
RRP: $30.43$21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486227528Author Geoffrey WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
African Art: Close-Up by Chris Spring 9780714125329 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$12.73Featuring a rich array of magnificent artworks from the British Museum and beyond, the book showcases some of the most exquisite works of wood, stone, ceramics, beadwork, textiles and metalwork from Africa - from the Mediterranean coast to the Cape and... -
African Art: Close-Up Chris Spring 9780714125329
RRP: $27.28$18.90Featuring a rich array of magnificent artworks from the British Museum and beyond, the book showcases some of the most exquisite works of wood, stone, ceramics, beadwork, textiles and metalwork from Africa - from the Mediterranean coast to the Cape and... -
Afro-Atlantic Histories by Adriano Pedrosa
RRP: $94.48$61.47A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and... -
Bodys Isek Kingelez by Sarah Suzuki
RRP: $58.80$40.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450547Author Sarah SuzukiFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 960g -
African Art As Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude by Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9781635423211
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423211Author Souleymane Bachir DiagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Afrotopia by Felwine Sarr 9781517906917
RRP: $41.98$36.83A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century In the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a new day finally seems to be shining on the African... -
Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections Toyin Falola 9788874395811
RRP: $88.20$62.56Nigerian art has long been sought after by art collectors in France. Accompanying an important exhibition, Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections explores Nigeria's rich artistic production through a collection of beautiful works, including many... -
Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms by Finbarr Barry Flood 9780691215150
RRP: $94.50$74.17New 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... -
Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria by Chika Okeke-Agulu
RRP: $50.38$45.86Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of... -
As We Rise: Contemporary Photography from the Black Atlantic by Dr. Kenneth Montague
RRP: $84.00$58.65As We Rise presents an exciting compilation of photographs from African diasporic culture. With over one hundred works by Black artists from Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, the United States, South America, as well as throughout the African...