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  • Bamigboye: A Master Sculptor of the Yoruba Tradition by Green, James
    James Green

    Bamigboye: A Master Sculptor of the Yoruba Tradition

    The first publication on the Yorùbá master sculptor Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè Bámigbóyè A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition is the first monograph dedicated to the 50-year career of the Nigerian artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè (ca. 1885-1975). One of the most important Yorùbá sculptors...
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  • Hilma AF Klint and the Five's Sketchbooks: No. S2, S6 and S13: 5 October 1896-10 January 1906 by Af Klint, Hilma
    Hilma Af Klint

    Hilma AF Klint and the Five's Sketchbooks: No. S2, S6 and S13: 5 October 1896-10 January 1906

    A three-volume slipcased facsimile of sketchbooks from Hilma af Klint and her Spiritualist circleHilma af Klint (1862-1944) was a pioneer of modern abstract art who turned away from the visible, physical world to embrace a spiritual reality in both her life and work. In...
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  • African Artists: From 1882 to Now by Phaidon Press
    Phaidon Phaidon Editors

    African Artists: From 1882 to Now

    As 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 the forefront of the...
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  • The Visual Arts of Africa: Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals by Smith, Fred T.
    Fred T. Smith

    The Visual Arts of Africa: Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals

    The Visual Arts of Africa: Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals presents a broad geographical coverage of the rich, diverse art traditions found on the vast continent of Africa. It is designed for single-semester survey courses on African Art, and can also be used...
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  • Emergence: Poetry & Art by Angalia, Kiana
    Kiana Angalia

    Emergence: Poetry & Art

    A visceral portrayal of the author's continuous journey of self-discovery, healing and expansion through poetry and art. Emergence captures the essence of what has arisen from the author's fourteen year journey through life with cancer. A collection of poems that embody our profound capacity...
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  • Afro-Atlantic Histories by Pedrosa, Adriano
    Adriano Pedrosa

    Afro-Atlantic Histories

    A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuriesNamed one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the...
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  • Black Art: A Cultural History by Powell, Richard J.
    Richard J. Powell

    Black Art: A Cultural History

    The African diaspora--a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism--has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae to the paintings of the pioneering American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and the music videos of Solange. This study concentrates...
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  • Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future by Garrido Castellano, Carlos
    Carlos Garrido Castellano

    Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future

    Carlos Garrido Castellano is Lecturer in the Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies Department at University College Cork in Ireland. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere.Author: Carlos Garrido CastellanoISBN-10: 1438485727ISBN-13: 9781438485720Publisher: State University...
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  • Picasso: Painting the Blue Period by Picasso, Pablo
    Pablo Picasso

    Picasso: Painting the Blue Period

    New 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 processThis lavishly illustrated volume reexamines Pablo Picasso's famous Blue Period (1901-04) in paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Relying...
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  • Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy by Thompson, Robert Farris
    Robert Farris Thompson

    Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy

    This landmark book shows how five African civilizations--Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River--have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil...
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  • The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by McKinley, Catherine E.
    Catherine E. McKinley

    The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women

    Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the YearA USA Today Must-Read for Black History MonthAn NPR Goats and Soda Editors' PickA BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year An unprecedented visual history of African women told...
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  • Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem by Choi, Connie H.
    Connie H. Choi

    Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem

    An authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde Wiley. The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna...
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  • Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? by Mutu, Wangechi
    Wangechi Mutu

    Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?

    Between Afrofuturism, fantasy and postcolonialism: the most comprehensive monograph to date on the fantastical worlds of Wangechi MutuWangechi Mutu takes viewers on journeys of material, psychological and sociopolitical transformation; this volume explores her most recent groundbreaking work. Over the past two decades, Mutu has...
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  • African Art by Willett, Frank
    Frank Willett

    African Art

    The art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota, and other African peoples is extraordinarily vigorous and shows a brilliant sense of form. The substantial aesthetic impact that their works have had on the development of twentieth-century Western art--on Picasso, Derain, Braque, and Modigliani,...
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  • A View from the Forest: The Power of Southern Kuba Initiation Rites and Masks by Binkley, David A.
    David A. Binkley

    A View from the Forest: The Power of Southern Kuba Initiation Rites and Masks

    An unprecedented and intimate look at the masking traditions of a Congolese tribeThe Kuba of the Democratic Republic of Congo are recognized throughout the world for the beauty and inventiveness of their figure sculptures, decorative arts and surface design traditions. However, only a few...
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  • Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths by Roberts, Allen F.
    Allen F. Roberts

    Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths

    For more than two millennia, African blacksmiths have transformed one of Earth's most basic natural resources into objects of life-changing utility, empowerment, prestige, spiritual potency, and astonishing artistry--shaping African cultures in the most fundamental ways. Striking Iron combines interdisciplinary scholarship with vivid illustrations to...
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  • Negro Art: Past and Present by Locke, Alain
    Alain Locke

    Negro Art: Past and Present

    2020 Reprint of the 1936 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is generally considered the first substantial study of African-American artists, written by the first African-American Rhodes Scholar and a key figure in the Harlem...
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  • Ghada Amer: Painting in Revolt by Amer, Ghada
    Ghada Amer

    Ghada Amer: Painting in Revolt

    The gender politics of abstraction: embroidered paintings and more from Ghada AmerNew York-based painter and embroiderer Ghada Amer (born 1963) was raised in Cairo, Egypt, and later educated in Nice and Paris, France. Her experiences with sexism in both locations served as the impetus...
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  • We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions by Gunkel, Henriette
    Henriette Gunkel

    We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions

    A new take on Afrofuturism, this book gathers together a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of five hundred years of contact among Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach toward the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer...
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  • Frédéric Bruly Bouabré World Unbound by Bruly Bouabré, Frédéric
    Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

    Frédéric Bruly Bouabré World Unbound

    The first museum survey of the visionary polymath from Côte d'IvoireThe Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré created an unmistakable and entirely unique body of work, first as a writer and linguist, and then in a dazzling series of colorful drawings on a multitude of...
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  • Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent by Eshun, Ekow
    Ekow Eshun

    Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent

    Africa State of Mind gathers together the work of an emergent generation of photographers from across the continent, exploring Africa as a psychological space as much as a geographical one. Both a summation of new photographic practice from the last decade and a compelling...
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  • El Anatsui: Art and Life by Vogel, Susan M.
    Susan M. Vogel

    El Anatsui: Art and Life

    This expanded and revised edition celebrates the work of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui by exploring the artist's life and the trajectory of his remarkable career. El Anatsui: Art and Life by Susan Mullin Vogel is the essential resource on the Ghanaian artist known worldwide...
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  • Kente Cloth: New Edition by Asamoah-Yaw, Ernest
    Ernest Asamoah-Yaw

    Kente Cloth: New Edition

    This book is about the history of an African clothing material known as Kente cloth. All relevant cultural aspects of the cloth have been explained in details with several pictorial illustrations. The book traces Kente history and how it has been used since its...
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  • Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria by Okeke-Agulu, Chika
    Chika Okeke-Agulu

    Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria

    Written 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 civil war in 1967. Chika Okeke-Agulu...
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  • Pathé'o by Rothenberger, Sereina
    Sereina Rothenberger

    Pathé'o

    The life and work of Côte d'Ivoire-based fashion designer Pathé'O, famed for dressing Nelson MandelaThis book traces, for the very first time, the extraordinary life and brand of Côte d'Ivoire-based fashion designer Pathé'O (born 1950). Known for his connection to former South African president...
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  • Nicolas Schuybroek: Selected Works Volume One by Schuybroek, Nicolas
    Nicolas Schuybroek

    Nicolas Schuybroek: Selected Works Volume One

    A decade of "warm minimalism" from an emerging Belgian architectNicolas Schuybroek (born 1981) started his own practice in 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. This is the first monograph on the architect's practice, showing projects from 2011 to 2021. Author: Nicolas SchuybroekISBN-10: 3775750630ISBN-13: 9783775750639Publisher: Hatje CantzLanguage:...
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  • Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa by Berzock, Kathleen Bickford
    Kathleen Bickford Berzock

    Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa

    How West African gold and trade across the Sahara were central to the medieval world The Sahara Desert was a thriving crossroads of exchange for West Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in the medieval period. Fueling this exchange was West African...
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  • Black Art: A Cultural History (Rev) by Powell, Richard J.
    Richard J. Powell

    Black Art: A Cultural History (Rev)

    The African diaspora--a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism--generated a wide array of artistic achievements in the past century, from blues to reggae, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the video installations of Keith Piper. Richard Powell's study...
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