Art - African

A dynamic look at the potential of disguise seen in masks, installations, and performances by contemporary artists of African descent While masks are a major art form in many parts of Africa, their use has taken new turns in the 21st century. Disguise: Masks...

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 solidarity for Black peoples worldwide....

When we think of the Last Supper and art, we often think immediately of Leonardo da Vinci. But the Last Supper has actually been the subject of paintings by artists for many centuries. Here is a collection of more than three dozen versions of...

Charmed Circles is a captivating book that takes readers on a journey through history, exploring the lives and legacies of some of the world's most influential women. From Aspasia, the influential Athenian woman who was the partner of Pericles, to modern-day icons like Coco...

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...

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 research, and new interviews, this book explores...

Premodern African art alongside contemporary artGroup Spirit is an exhibition of works by contemporary artists alongside works of unknown African artists. Many of the contemporary works in Group Spirit use rough, non-artistic materials that achieve elevated status through their association with twentieth-century abstract art...

""The French Revolution And Napoleon: In Literature And Caricature"" is a historical book written by George Henry Sargent in 1906. The book explores the French Revolution and the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte through the lens of literature and caricature. The author analyzes how writers...

Contemporary And's second text compilation of discussions on art of the African diasporaThis past year, 2023, marked the 10th anniversary of Contemporary And (C&), a dynamic platform for discourses on contemporary art from Africa and its global diaspora. All That It Holds brings together...

In the World presents a collection of essays by Cape Town cultural analyst and art critic Ashraf Jamal focused on 24 South African artists working in painting, photography, sculpture and performance. Aimed at a wide, international audience, the texts reconfigure the national narrative of...

For this series, Angolan artist Edson Chagas walked through the streets of Luanda, London and Newport, collecting discarded objects and moving them, at times slightly and in other instances significantly, before photographing them. Taken out of their context and photographed in relation to a...

Ancient Egypt has always been an endless source of fascination and inspiration. Drawing on the exceptional holdings of Egyptian antiquities from The Brooklyn Museum, The Art of Ancient Egypt covers more than four millennia of Egyptian history while exploring the most intriguing themes surrounding...

Acutely aware of how popular culture acts as a carrier of social prejudice and invective, Merali's work is exercised specifically by the racial and racist content of popular culture.Author: Shaheen MeraliISBN-10: 0863567088ISBN-13: 9780863567087Publisher: Saqi BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2004Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.24h x 6.46w x...

The Benin-Cameroon artist, Jeki Esso, aka Jeki, has created a visual time capsule. Using pictograms, symbols, patterns, mathematical equations, words in African languages, renderings of African architecture, and colors, she invites the viewer cross historic, cultural, linguistic, geographical, philosophical, and even ideational boundaries.The reason...

Algeria is a large country, rich in visual remains of its long and complex history. The monuments of the Roman period are particularly impressive. This is partly because they are well-preserved, but also because the French, who colonized the region in the nineteenth century...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold...

The Symbolisms of Heraldry by W. Cecil Wade is a comprehensive guide to the art of heraldry, which is the practice of designing, displaying, and describing coats of arms and badges. The book explores the history and evolution of heraldry, and provides a detailed...

- This book is a multi-vocal, inter-disciplinary, examination of Baga culture and specifically the performance of the Serpent masquerade within that cultureThis study of the wooden Serpent figures/headdresses of the Baga people of Guinea is a collaboration by the author, as an art historian,...

Joy Labinjo (b.1994) is a British-Nigerian artist based in London. Bringing together paintings made between 2017 and 2024, this monograph coincides with her institutional solo exhibition We Are Briefly Gorgeous at Southwark Park Galleries, London, which opened in July 2024.Labinjo uses the human figure...

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, to shorter...

This book contains papers read at the conference "West African archaeology, New developments, New perspectives", co-sponsored by the Nigerian Field Society and the Department of Archaeology of the University of Sheffield, with the support of the University's Humanities Research Institute, which was held at...

Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like. Can identity be global and local at the same time? How may one curate dual identity? More broadly, what is the link between the arts and processes...

Great Mandalas Design to Color - Dozens of detailed mandala designs created for adults - Each coloring page is designed to help relax and inspire - Use your choice of coloring tool (pens, pencils, markers, crayons) - Each design is on a separate sheetAuthor:...

African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under...

The first publication to examine the symbolic importance of ancient Egypt to Black artists and other cultural figures, from the nineteenth century through the Harlem Renaissance to the present Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Black Americans looked to ancient Egypt as evidence of...

Winner - African Studies Association's 2009 Melville J. Herskovits Award An intellectual biography of a modern African artist and his immense contribution to twentieth-century art history. The history of world art has long neglected the work of modern African artists and their search for...

Samuel Adentwi Bentum aka Ebo Bentum is an Antropologist, Culturist and an Art Historian. He holds a Ph.D in African Art and Culture and MFA in Sculpture and Painting all from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He is an art...

Effective Outlines and Illustrations is a book written by Hyman J. Appelman, which provides guidance and tips on how to create effective outlines and illustrations for presentations, speeches, and written works. The book is designed to help writers and speakers organize their thoughts 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, the Valley extends from the...

A beautifully illustrated look at how the acclaimed ceramicist draws on the postcolonial experience in her work Magdalene Odundo (b. 1950) is a Kenyan-born British ceramicist whose extraordinary works have been widely celebrated for their beauty and universality. Her studies of classical forms across...

The first major history of photography from coastal East Africa The ports of the Swahili coast--Zanzibar and Mombasa among them--have long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge. With the arrival of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, these predominantly...

Of the seventy or so American painters who visited the "Orient" after the Civil War (1861-1865), Frederick Arthur Bridgman stands out for the volume of his work and the number of trips he made. Bridgman particularly distinguished himself in the depiction of daily life...

Etching: And Other Graphic Arts, An Illustrated Treatise is a book written by George T. Plowman and published in 1922. The book is a comprehensive guide to the art of etching and other graphic arts, and it is illustrated with many examples of etchings...

Examining politics of cultural appropriation through an art movement born from Belgium's exploitation of the Congo"Style Congo" reflected a widespread fascination with "exotic" art and architecture while downplaying King Leopold II's exploitation of the region. Based on historical materials and contemporary interventions, this book...

Essays In The Study Of Sienese Painting is a book written by Berhard Berenson and published in 1918. The book is a collection of essays that explore the art and history of Sienese painting. Berenson, a renowned art historian, provides a detailed analysis of...

The primary objective of The African in the Making of Cuban Art is to seamlessly blend African cultural concepts into an understanding of the evolution of Cuban art. This ambitious goal is achieved by delving the core artistic principles that have permeated various African...

Art of the Cameroon Grasslands unveils the artistic creativity of a region of West Africa through the Weis Collection. With texts by Peter Weis and Bettina von Lintig, and a contribution by Michael Oehrl, the book is a comprehensive overview of Grasslands Art. In...

""America and French Culture 1750-1848"" by Howard Mumford Jones is a historical book that explores the cultural relationship between America and France during the period from 1750 to 1848. The book analyzes how French culture influenced American society and how Americans perceived and responded...

Author: Bénédicte SavoyISBN-10: 0691264910ISBN-13: 9780691264912Publisher: Princeton University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 240Format: Paperback

How African visual arts intersect with oral traditions and memory. Narrative Wisdom and African Arts explores how historical and contemporary African arts make visible narratives rooted in collective and individual memory and knowledge. Historical works made by artists across sub-Saharan Africa during the thirteenth...

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa: Body Talks dissects the diverse perceptions of the body and how it becomes symbolically charged in the artwork of six contemporary Maghrebi female artists: Majida Khattari, Lalla Essaydi, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, D?borah Benzaquen, Fatima Mazmouz and Za?nab...

Face Painting for Black Kids - Step-by-Step GuideDiscover the magic of face painting with our book "Face Painting for Kids - Step-by-Step Guide"! This colorful and inspiring book is the perfect resource for parents and professionals who want to turn any party into an...

"But behind their dynamic patterns, Akpojotor's works tell a deeper story of family, femininity and female empowerment in contemporary African society." --Rochelle Beighton, CNNUnder her father's guidance, the Nigerian artist Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor (born 1989) dabbled in drawing, design, stencil work and calligraphy from...

This research work is towards an anthropological study and interpretation of the nature and functions of Edina Asafo Companies and their Posts in the socio-cultural life of the people, where these institutions and their monuments feature prominently in their annual calendar. The early visual...

One of the first books to examine the wide breadth of the African Diaspora and its influence on international fashion. Tracing the local and global impact of Black Diasporic designers, Africa's Fashion Diaspora is one of the first books to explore the diverse perspectives...

New research explores Muslim arts and identities in postcolonial Africa. This collection explores the dynamic place of Islamic art, architecture, and creative expression in processes of decolonization across the African continent in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Presenting new methodologies for accentuating African agency...

Eshi Addis Ababa, by German artist Michaela Meise (born 1976), is a kind of architectural guide through Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. One emphasis is its relationship to East Germany, with pictures of the former East German ambassador's villa and the Karl Marx memorial...

The newest book in the "Enjoying Great Art" Series: Great art comes in many sizes and shapes, in many colors and styles. It can also be about many different themes - real and imaginary. Other books in the series have included art arranged around...

""Color and Line in Dress"" by Laurene Hempstead is a comprehensive guide to understanding the principles of color and line when it comes to dressing. The book explores the different ways in which colors and lines can be used to create a cohesive and...