Art - African

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For centuries, trading caravans made epic journeys across the Saharan sands to reach the markets of the legendary city of Timbuktu, where they traded salt, gold, slaves, textiles--and books. By the mid-fifteenth century, Timbuktu had become a major center of Islamic literary culture and...

African Artists under Mission Patronage explores relationships between African artists and Western Christian missions in twentieth-century Africa, and how that patronage has shaped and defined twentieth-century African art.Author: Fadhili Safieli MshanaISBN-10: 1666901512ISBN-13: 9781666901511Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2023Pages: 154Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

African fashion is as diverse and dynamic as the continent and the people who live there. While experts have long recognized the importance of clothing as a marker of ethnic identity, life stages, political affiliation, and social class, they have only just begun to...

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana,...

New and classic texts on Africa's unfulfilled project of decolonizationFeaturing republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and newly commissioned essays by some of today's leading artists and writers, Living with Ghosts: A Reader explores the ways that Africa's unresolved...

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This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 150,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the challenges of the present. This enormous...

Graffiti -- unsanctioned marks in public built spaces -- are increasingly recognized as worthy of study in contexts both ancient and modern. For ancient societies, graffiti are personal expressions that are otherwise rare in the archaeological and historical record. This volume is focused around...

In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images to mend fraught and fragmented lives in the context...

- Variety of levels of difficulty - from medium to very intricate - One-sided pages; only one picture printed on each sheet - High-resolution images The Mandala MAGIC Coloring Book is the perfect introduction to mindfulness coloring, suitable for all ages. Filled with calming...

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film. Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution....

Digging for a lost civilization in the Nile ValleySpecially trained Egyptian photographers were an integral part of the pioneering Harvard-MFA expedition during the first half of the 20th century. Over the course of some 40 years, their photographs documented the excavations with thousands of...

Ba's densely textured paintings intertwine African and European histories to explore the corrupting effects of wealth and power and their impacts on communitiesThis is the first monograph on Dakar- and New York-based mixed-media painter Omar Ba (born 1977), whose surreal scenes of violence and...

Gareth Nyandoro is noted for his large works on paper, which often spill out of their two-dimensional format and into installations that include paper scraps and objects found in the street markets of Harare, where he lives and works. The artist's primary source of...

Celebrate the beauty of diversity with this inspiring coloring book! Featuring stunning illustrations of black girls of all ages, this book is perfect for children and adults who want to celebrate and uplift diversity. With this book, you'll get: 30 unique illustrations Inspiring images...

This critically acclaimed study offers a distinct, incisive look at how Senegalese philosopher Senghor sees in African art the most acute expression of Bergson's philosophy. Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of...

A revelatory new volume on the American modernist's lesser-known works on paper, reuniting many serial works for the first timeRecalling a charcoal she made in 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe later wrote, "I have made this drawing several times--never remembering that I had made it before--and...

The first retrospective monograph on one of Kenya's foremost living artists I Hope So: Sane Wadu follows the expansion and development of Wadu's conceptual preoccupations, beginning with an early interest in bucolic scenes of pastoral life which has evolved into incisive social commentary, a...

Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality...

WOMEN is a powerful visual representation of the journey that women travel. It combines aesthetic beauty, symbols, and visual metaphors to trigger emotions and responses to enduring gender inequalities in all areas of life. This book is an urgent call to action that echoes...

Dynasty and Divinity presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists at Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa (located in present-day...

This catalogue showcases a multigenerational group of African artists varied in their backgrounds, thematic concerns, and formal strategies and offers a starting point for critical engagement with the history of painting in East Africa. Mwili, Akili Na Roho: Ten Figurative Painters from East Africa...

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Long ago, the Ancients wielded absolute power thanks to Technology which rendered them almost God-like. The Planet Earth was theirs to rule from their colossal metallic cities. In their hubris, they destroyed themselves. North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, Australia, Latin America...

A treasure trove of portraits from more than 20 African and African-descendant contemporary paintersThis catalog showcases over 20 figurative artists from the African continent and diaspora. While the artists assembled represent a diverse array of styles, they all explore complex questions of identity, aesthetics...

A multidisciplinary illustrated reader unpacking imperialist representations of Africa by promoting dialogue, memory and everyday practice, and reimagining cultural institutions and the arts--from museums to academia, from architecture to artIn 2017, curator and art historian Anita N. Bateman and architect and professor Emanuel Admassu...

Born in Benin in 1961, Meschac Gaba moved to the Netherlands in 1996 to take up resi­dency at the Rijksakademie. There, he conceived Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997-2002, an ambitious work that took five years to complete and cemented his reputation as one...

In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these...

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...

- Jan Strybol examines the sculptural traditions of a number of peoples in central Nigeria. In addition to wood sculptures, he also pays attention to objects in bronze, iron, terracotta and other materials; art forms that have been very underexposed and have almost vanished...

This is a multidisciplinary collection comprising 21 critical and personal essays and several artworks and photos that centre around the topics of language, thought (philosophies), art and existence. Seventeen essays appeared in the previous edition of this book, and I have added four new...

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...

Why You Will Love this BookRelaxing Coloring Pages. Every page you color will pull you into a relaxing world where your responsibilities will seem to fade away...Beautiful Illustrations. We've included 100 unique images for you to express your creativity and make masterpieces. Which colors...

The first monograph on the decorative, Afrofuturist tableaux of Pamela Phatsimo SunstrumThis debut monograph on Botswana-born, Johannesburg- and Toronto-based artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (born 1980) accompanies a mid-career survey at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (CAC). Presenting the largest display of works by the...

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Wall Art Decor: African Proverbs - Ready-to-Frame Black & White Art Prints GREAT GIFT IDEA: Features quotes, proverbs and wisdom from various parts of Africa including Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and much more GREAT FOR ARTISTS - Decoupage, collage, & mixed media...

Annette Schemmel provides a highly illuminating case study of the major actors, discourses and paradigm that shaped the history of visual arts in Cameroon during the second part of the 20th century. Her book meticulously reconstructs the multiple ways of artistic knowledge acquisition -...

The Cape Town-born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Robin Rhode (born 1976) engages photography, performance, drawing and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives that are brought to life using materials such as soap, charcoal, chalk and paint. Coming of age in a newly post-apartheid South Africa,...

GREAT GIFT IDEAS COLOURING BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS This incredible Adult Coloring Book by best-selling artist This book is the perfect way to relieve stress and while enjoying beautiful and highly detailed images. Product Details: Printed single sided on bright white paper Perfect for all...

As is the case with most African indigenous industries, not much research has been done on the Gusii soapstone industry. Consequently, the main aim of this book is to fill the identified gap. Specifically, this book traces the origin of the Gusii soapstone industry,...

"Ambassador Sanders imaginatively combine phenomenology and ethnographic methods to shine light on a world treasure worthy of both scholarly exploration and cultural amplification. Her scholarship, a mixture of style and substance, voyeuristically grants us access to the lives of the legendary Uli women of...

Author: Ian CormackISBN-10: 147977135XISBN-13: 9781479771356Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2013Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

Performing Power... attempts a comparative re]examination of the 'nation' and its various contestations from the perspective of the more recent popular theatre tradition in Kenya. It is substantially a re-think and interrogation of entrenched assumptions about the postcolony and its realities, often typified by...

This book is about a journey; Africa is its destination. It offers exploration, discovery and learning about the continent and its inhabitants. The book provides a vicarious journey to Africa through its history and into the present day. It is an emotional and aesthetic...

In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these...

A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to...

An original coloring concept from cult artist Duchess of Lore. Discover over 30 intricate artworks to color in, from the brilliant mind of artist Duchess of Lore. With evocative subjects inspired by the occult, myth, legend and folklore, readers will find intricate, beautiful line...

Short-listed for the Fage & Oliver Prize for outstanding scholarly work published on Africa.Finalist, African Studies Association Book Prize.Finalist, ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Prize for best book in east African studies.If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia's inimitable historical...

This book accompanies an original deck of playing cards created, designed, illustrated and produced by the author (only available via www.mindonthematter.com). These playing cards use African Adinkra symbols from the Akan culture in place of the spades, clubs, diamonds, and hearts. Each symbol and...