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  • Seeing the Unseen: Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural Frontier by Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth
    Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi

    Seeing the Unseen: Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural Frontier

    How do arts convey the existence of potent knowledge without revealing details of that knowledge? In Seeing the Unseen, art historian Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi examines tensions between the seen and unseen that makers, patrons, and audiences of arts in western West Africa negotiate through...
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  • The Activist Collector: Lida Clanton Broner's 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa by Clarke, Christa
    Christa Clarke

    The Activist Collector: Lida Clanton Broner's 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa

    Published by the Newark Museum. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. "After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers." So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895-1982), an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, New Jersey, upon...
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  • When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting by Kouoh, Koyo
    Koyo Kouoh

    When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting

    Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, CapeTown, When We See Us presents a comprehensive exploration of Black representation through portraiture and figuration, celebrating Black subjectivity and Black consciousness from Pan-African and Pan-Diasporic perspectives.In the past decade, figurative painting by Black artists...
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  • Shared Passion: An African Art Collection Built in the Xxist Century by Claessens, Bruno
    Bruno Claessens

    Shared Passion: An African Art Collection Built in the Xxist Century

    Highlighting the strong bond between a collector and an art dealer, Shared Passion explores a remarkable collection of African art assembled in the twenty-first century This book documents and celebrates the patience and perseverance of, and the friendship between, the Belgian collector Michel Vandenkerckhove...
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  • Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club by Gant, Kimberli
    Kimberli Gant

    Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club

    The first book to feature Jacob Lawrence's Nigeria series, this richly illustrated volume also highlights Africa's place as a global center of modernist art and culture This revelatory book shines a light on the understudied but important influence of African Modernism on the work...
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  • black african women coloring book: fashion black beautiful african american relaxation art and boredom anti anxiety intricate ornate therapy activity by Smith, Shanice
    Shanice Smith

    black african women coloring book: fashion black beautiful african american relaxation art and boredom anti anxiety intricate ornate therapy activity

    a large selection of beautiful illustrations of a strong and beautiful black African women. the best coloring book for adults to relieve stress and anxiety. the coloring book has more than 30 beautiful photos of African fashion women .Author: Shanice SmithISBN-10: 8640839824ISBN-13: 9798640839821Publisher: Independently...
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  • Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions by Joslin, Isaac Vincent
    Isaac Vincent Joslin

    Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions

    An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre that has expressed projected technological progress since the Industrial Revolution. However, certain fantastical elements in African literary expressions...
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  • Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions by Joslin, Isaac Vincent
    Isaac Vincent Joslin

    Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions

    An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre that has expressed projected technological progress since the Industrial Revolution. However, certain fantastical elements in African literary expressions...
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  • Lo' tù lu lulùre pon ntièn: From the Resilient Shadows (Des ombres résilientes) by Gbetnkom, Samuel Calvin
    Samuel Calvin Gbetnkom

    Lo' tù lu lulùre pon ntièn: From the Resilient Shadows (Des ombres résilientes)

    This is a small volume of poetry in Bamum with accompanying translations in French and English. The author is a talented poet from Foumban, Cameroon.Author: Samuel Calvin GbetnkomISBN-10: 0981829422ISBN-13: 9780981829425Publisher: AthinkraLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2022Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d
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  • The Concert by Echakhch, Latifa
    Latifa Echakhch

    The Concert

    A journey through sound, memory, and landscapes, questioning the origins, perception, and cultural implications of music. A lifelong relation to sound and music underlies Latifa Echakhch's work. On the occasion of her representation of the Swiss Pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennale, she has...
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  • Africa Coloring Book For Adults: Artwork Inspired by African Designs, Adult Coloring Book for Men, Women, Teenagers, & Older Kids, Advanced Coloring P by Art Therapy Coloring
    Art Therapy Coloring

    Africa Coloring Book For Adults: Artwork Inspired by African Designs, Adult Coloring Book for Men, Women, Teenagers, & Older Kids, Advanced Coloring P

    Africa Coloring Book For Adults Africa Coloring Book For Adults contains over 35 coloring pages to color and enjoy. This adult coloring book incorporates a variety of detailed artwork inspired by Africa and creates hours of coloring fun for the adult color enthusiast! Featuring...
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  • Makeup Charts - Face Templates for Makeup Artists: Black Model - DIAMOND face shape by Fashion, I. Draw
    I. Draw Fashion

    Makeup Charts - Face Templates for Makeup Artists: Black Model - DIAMOND face shape

    Design, customize and practice your make up skills with this amazing makeup chart Created for professional, intermediate and beginner level makeup artists, this Makeup chart template consists of black models with diamond shaped faces. It brings you the perfect way to easily hone your...
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  • African Stories by Moonlight by Ebegbulem, Celestine E.
    Celestine E. Ebegbulem

    African Stories by Moonlight

    Introduction to African Stories by Moonlight. The most memorable evenings I had as a child were those in which, together with other children, I listened to adults tell us stories which were often accompanied with rhythmic and delightful songs. When I started raising my...
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  • The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa by Rey, Virginie
    Virginie Rey

    The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa

    How are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of identities are being deployed?...
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  • The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis and the Eritrean Coastal Region: Previous investigations and museum collections by Zazzaro, Chiara
    Chiara Zazzaro

    The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis and the Eritrean Coastal Region: Previous investigations and museum collections

    The book unveils documents and museum collections related to research and excavations conducted on the Red Sea coast and at Adulis in the 19th and 20th centuries. In examining these materials the author takes the opportunity to discuss the place of Adulis and of...
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  • Colour and Dye Recipes of Ethiopia by Tournerie, Patricia Irwin
    Patricia Irwin Tournerie

    Colour and Dye Recipes of Ethiopia

    In 1968 Patricia Tournerie started to collect information concerning traditional colour recipes used in Ethiopia, with the intention of providing students in the Faculty of Education at the University of Addis Ababa with a simple handbook on locally available materials for use in provincial...
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  • Blessings for a New World by Majozo, Estella Conwill
    Estella Conwill Majozo

    Blessings for a New World

    The symbiotic relationship between poems and paintings is explored in this stimulating volume. As a premiere example of convergence art, in which two or more different kinds of art react to and interact with one another, the collection draws a comparison between multidisciplinary art...
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  • There's Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-being by Lutz, Glenn
    Glenn Lutz

    There's Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-being

    There's Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-being is a collection of over sixty artworks from contemporary art legends and emerging talents, alongside more than thirty interviews from artists, activists, psychologists, community organizers, authors, musicians, filmmakers, athletes, and lawyers. Contributors...
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  • Time for the World to Learn from Africa by Finnegan, Ruth
    Ruth Finnegan

    Time for the World to Learn from Africa

    LITERARY TITAN GOLD AWARD It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from...
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  • Akuba Sika: The African child with a golden arm by Dankwa, Nana
    Nana Dankwa

    Akuba Sika: The African child with a golden arm

    Akuba Sika. She was born on a lakeside called "Bosomtwe". The lake is a million-year Meteorite Lake in Ghana. Akuba Sika endured a difficult childhood because of her arm. The incident happened when she attempted to remove a bush fowl from the animal trap....
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  • The Kanga an African Cloth by Ressler, Phyllis
    Phyllis Ressler

    The Kanga an African Cloth

    The Kanga an African Cloth, attempts to fill a gap in the cultural history of the Swahili coast with its vibrant connections to central Africa, west Africa, Europe and the Middle East by exploring stories of the kanga. In addition the book contains the...
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  • Visual Century Volume Two: 1945-1976: South African Art in Context by Jantjes, Gavin
    Gavin Jantjes

    Visual Century Volume Two: 1945-1976: South African Art in Context

    In the second installment of the Visual Century Collection, the political and artistic search for national identity is explored. Visual Century: South African Art is a four-volume publication that reappraises South African visual art of the 20th century from a postapartheid perspective. It is...
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  • The Story of the Acholi - A Village Tale from Uganda by Association, Karin Parents
    Karin Parents Association

    The Story of the Acholi - A Village Tale from Uganda

    An incredible program led to the creation of The Story of the Acholi - A Village Tale from Uganda. This was born out of a project that encouraged Acholi community members living in Gulu, northern Uganda to write, paint and perform about their personal...
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  • Mossi by Roy, Christopher D.
    Christopher D. Roy

    Mossi

    The Mossi people of Burkina Faso have a rich and complex history that is mirrored by the several types and styles of figures and masks they create. They came into being around 1500 A.D. when a large group of horsemen from what is now...
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  • Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Petridis, Constantine
    Constantine Petridis

    Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

    A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicago's extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa Featuring a selection of more than 75 works of traditional African art in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection, this stunning volume includes objects in...
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  • The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa by Rey, Virginie
    Virginie Rey

    The Art of Minorities: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa

    How are issues related to identity representation negotiated in Middle Eastern and North African museums? Can museums provide a suitable canvas for minorities to express their voice? Can narratives change and stereotypes be broken and, if so, what kind of identities are being deployed?...
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  • Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire by Visonà, Monica Blackmun
    Monica Blackmun Visonà

    Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire

    Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire is an investigation of the methods employed by art historians who study creative production in Africa. While providing insights into the rich visual arts of the Lagoon Peoples of southeastern Côte d'Ivoire, this study...
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  • Art History in Africa by Vansina, Jan
    Jan Vansina

    Art History in Africa

    This is a pioneering introduction to a subject that is still at an early srage of academic development. It aims to provide the reader with a systematic method for the historical understanding of African art. Professor Vansina considers the medium, technique, style and meaning...
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  • Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola by Fromont, Cécile
    C馗ile Fromont

    Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

    Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These "practical guides" present the intricacies of...
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  • Graffiti South Africa by Waddacor, Cale
    Cale Waddacor

    Graffiti South Africa

    In a visual feast, hundreds of vibrant images showcase the work of South Africa's most influential graffiti artists, which will entertain and inspire graffiti enthusiasts and art fanatics all over the world. Selective interviews with major graffiti personalities reveal their passions and inspirations and...
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  • Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga by Baloji, Sammy
    Sammy Baloji

    Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga

    The first international monograph dedicated to Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, one of the most enterprising and exciting young artists working in Africa today. Eddy Kamuanga's large-scale figurative paintings display a wealth of historical understanding in a sophisticated interplay of strikingly colored forms juxtaposed on gray...
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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...
    $35.00
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