Art - African

The latest volume in The Met's How to Read series, focusing on the rich and varied textiles of Africa through forty exemplars from the nineteenth century to the present day Across the African continent, handwoven cloth and clothing have historically been labor-intensive creations deeply...

The Art of Afrofuturism explores the groundbreaking artwork of dozens of artists from multiple continents and across the African Diaspora who are contributing to a new vision of the future and their place in it. Whether from the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, North...

A 300-plus-page primer on the vanguards of contemporary African artThe Qatar-based ARAK Collection holds over 4,000 works of contemporary African art. The more than 100 works presented here provide a comprehensive overview of continental trends. Each artist receives a biographical essay written by Ghanian...

A rare look into the ancient Ethiopian art of telsem from a modern master of the practiceRealized in collaboration with the Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Sharjah Art Foundation, this comprehensive survey features work by the prolific contemporary Ethiopian artist Henok Melkamzer, who has attained...

Artists from across the African and South Asian diasporas grapple with colonial legacies through a reimagining of the lost city of Atlantis transplanted to the bottom of the Indian OceanWhat if the book was a technology invented at sea? How would its language reflect...

Evoking landscapes and the human body as sites of memory, van den Berg inserts queer perspectives into the larger rewriting of South African historyZambia-born, South Africa-based artist Clive van den Berg (born 1956) produces a range of multimedia works unified by five themes: memory,...

Wisdom Tales from Africa is an anthology of stories drawn from several African traditions. Wisdom stories were traditionally told by the elders of the group, and besides being a wonderful source of entertainment, they served to emphasize the consequences of certain behavior.The wisdom, truths...

Culture and the Contemporary AfricanEdited by Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju and Kirsten Holst PetersenThe contributions in this volume span the globally contested domains of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and aesthetics, with specific reference to Africa.They also cover the key cultural areas of language, literature, music, dance,...

"For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." Psalm 91:11 This little booklet highlights more than 500 years of paintings with angels, many of them scenes from the New Testament, and some from the Old Testament....

Giovanni Della Robbia is a book written by Allan Marquand and published in 1920. The book is a comprehensive study of the life and work of the Italian Renaissance sculptor Giovanni Della Robbia. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which explores...

The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture--rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-inspiring bowl-bearing figures evoke invisible powers...

Author: Bruno BarbeyISBN-10: 8836658938ISBN-13: 9788836658930Publisher: Silvana EditorialeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages: 208Format: Paperback

Join me on an inspiring poetic journey towards rediscovering hope amidst the existential crisis that often clouds our minds. With classic styles ranging from Haiku to Tanka and more, this beautifully crafted collection of poems will accompany you on a soulful quest of the...

Author: Tamar Garb, Sinazo ChiyaISBN-10: 1904561705ISBN-13: 9781904561705Publisher: Kettle's YardLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2024Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 11.40h x 8.80w x 0.60d

During 1988 Anita Bunn left South Africa for America to see how other people lived. It would be for 36 months, she told her mother. She returned 8 years later with her son and settled into a small cottage on a big farm in...

In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma.Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke...

Author: Morad MontazamiISBN-10: 3959058489ISBN-13: 9783959058483Publisher: Spector BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 136Format: Paperback

Features the provenance research undertaken at eight Swiss museums on their Benin collections and the dialogue on the objects' history and future with partners in Nigeria. This multifaceted reader explores the cultural heritage of the Kingdom of Benin, in the territory of what today...

Welcome to a particularly dark corner of the Multiverse. In the second decade of the 21st Century, a deadly virus turned hundreds of thousands of people into Vampire-like, bloodthirsty creatures. Those creatures fed upon the Human race, driving them to near extinction. As Humanity...

Egypt: the Book of time is the most innovative book on ancient Egypt to appear in many years. It contains beautiful color photographs of ancient temples and monuments and their hieroglyphic inscriptions, along with English translations of the inscriptions done by the author. This...

In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca ?cole des beaux-arts, transforming the colonial relic into a wellspring of Moroccan modernism. Casablanca School artists, including Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, and Mohammed Melehi, defined the modernist movement in Morocco....

In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca ?cole des Beaux-Arts, transforming the colonial relic into a zeitgeist of Moroccan modernism. Casablanca School artists, including Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, and Mohammed Melehi, defined the modernist movement in Morocco...

Author: Sloane BrightskyISBN-13: 9798348428044Publisher: Sloane BrightskyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2025Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

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...

A fresh lens capturing the cosmos of Africa and its everlasting presence in our global societies. This lavishly illustrated volume approaches the vast continent of Africa from a variety of viewpoints that go beyond prejudice and stereotypes and use cultural history and contemporary art...

An introduction to North African Indigenous cinema through a new understanding of the Amazigh homelandsAmazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film examines the emergence of Amazigh visual media in its historical and cultural contexts and engages in a decolonization of the studies...

An astonishing new narrative of Mandu Yenu, a throne from the ancient Kingdom of Bamum. "Most of the time, it is the power of men that we remember." With these words, which open L?onora Miano's text for Objects Talk Back, an astonishing new narrative...

By studying multiple cultural expressions of Blackness throughout different regions of the Americas, the chapters of this book consider the relationship that social and historical processes such as sovereignty and colonialism have on cultural productions made by and about Black Latina women. Author: Rosita...

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 83This study for the first time provides an in-depth examination of the Butana Group ceramics that in turn represent a large sedentary development existing in the far reaches of the eastern Sahel during the 4th millennium BC. These particular...

George Caleb Bingham: The Missouri Artist is a book written by Fern Helen Rusk and published in 1917. The book is a biography of the American artist George Caleb Bingham, who was known for his paintings depicting everyday life in Missouri during the mid-19th...

Shiraz Painting In The Sixteenth Century is a book written by Grace Dunham Guest that explores the art of painting in the city of Shiraz during the 16th century. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the techniques, styles, and themes used by the...

An intimate reflection on culture and tradition, creativity and power, that draws on a lifetime's commitment to aesthetic encounter The playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is also a longtime art collector. This book of essays offers a glimpse into the...

An exploration of contemporary African masquerade that reveals its cultural contexts, artistic innovations, and intersection with museum collection practices By placing masquerade at the forefront of contemporary African art, this volume shows how masquerade is a dynamic and urban phenomenon shaped by shifting global...

Featuring more than 100 extraordinary works of art from 1800 to the present, Earth Matters reveals how African individuals and communities have visually mediated their most poignant relationships with the land--whether it be to earth as a sacred or medicinal material, as something uncovered...

The influence of Malian photographers Malick Sidib? and Seydou Ke?ta has been widespread since their emergence on the international scene in the 1990s. Their intimate black and white photos integrate pattern, decoration, portraiture, and iconography in entirely new ways, bespeaking a new post-colonial African...

In the southernmost region of the African continent, women have been piecing together materials--textile construction techniques commonly used in quilting-- to create bed coverings throughout the history of the San and Khoi peoples. From the late seventeenth century through the early nineteenth century, an...

New modes of displaying and viewing African art and material culture. At the heart of SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa is a design-focused question of how to present historical and contemporary works alongside one another. Through the use of...

This volume gathers contemporary digital imaginaries of neoliberal multinational extractivism as a terra nullius upgrade at the West African coast together with the long-term practice of encoding matter as a poetics of resistance within colonial extractivism.Author: Filipa CesarISBN-10: 395905601XISBN-13: 9783959056014Publisher: Spector BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages:...

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...