Art - African

Have you ever wondered why simba(Lion), "the King of the Jungle" runs away when confronted by the African Maasai tribesmen? Let's face it; our children face an up-hill battle in today's world. In light of this fact, engendering success must start with training parents...

A groundbreaking method for writing art history, using the language of geometry. How do we embark on a history of art from the assumption of a global majority, outside of essentializing categories like race or hollow proclamations of solidarity? With this book, Joan Kee...

Beninese artist Georges Ad agbo (born 1942) began his professional life studying law and business in France--until his father's death in 1971 brought a halt to his degree, requiring him to return to Benin and assume his father's patriarchal duties. Frustrated, disoriented and faced...

Collection one is 3 part anthology made up of Love's Icarus, poems from an alternate reality and 21.Author: Klarion ScribblesISBN-10: 8201317890ISBN-13: 9798201317898Publisher: Klarion ScribblesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/2022Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d

The Skin We Breathe is written in reverence for the author's best friend who recently passed from cancer. This book of poetry bears an atmosphere of winter, reflecting themes of loss, grief, and healing through creativity. The Skin We Breathe is a book for...

Master Panic is the guardian of the multiverse in LIFE COMICS. Here's what to look for in the first issue, witness the origin, and you will see the multiverse version of some of our characters. Don't Miss Out! The first issue is a MUST...

Ardmore ceramics are found in major collections in several European countries, the United States and South Africa and have been given as state gifts to, among others, Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac, Queen Elizabeth II and Empress Michiko of Japan Giraffe stretch out their necks...

Amal'ezulu (Zulu Horizons), first published in 1945 in the Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series by the University of the Witwatersrand Press, was the second volume of poetry produced by the renowned Zulu author B.W. Vilakazi. It was written during the ten years he spent...

Under Different Moons: African Art in Conversation shares--for the first time in print--the UBC Museum of Anthropology's extensive collection of brilliant objects from dozens of African cultures, gathered over nearly a century. These include masks from the Baule peoples of C te d'Ivoire, the...

The first monograph on the sinuous, exhilaratingly colorful and pattern-filled portraiture of Amoako BoafoGhanaian painter Amoako Boafo has built a practice synthesizing the ways that art both reflects and perpetuates the power of representation. Amoako Boafo is the first monograph to comprehensively examine the...

It's Finally time to take time out for YOU with this (2nd Edition) Self Care coloring book by Latoya Nicole - Exhale Again: A Self Care Coloring Book with AffirmationsYou can't pour from an empty cup. Give yourself permission to focus on self-care and...

Adedayo's poems clutch at your heart, reminding you that life is for those brave enough to become themselves. Romance, family, and war orbit around lush verses that demand an existence made full.Author: Adedayo Adeyemi AgarauISBN-10: 1952055008ISBN-13: 9781952055003Publisher: Vegetarian Alcoholic PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2020Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Scandinavia, Western and Southern Europe, North...

Doing. Being. Becoming: For the Love of the Creative Arts is a nonfiction book that makes a compelling case for why the creative arts should be at the center of everything we do in society.Using her personal stories from growing up in Festac Town,...

A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically...

A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically...

........After a long journey, Tortoise came to his farm. There, he saw a very tall palm tree he was sure he had never seen there before and there was a river flowing by the side. He looked up at the tree and saw plenty...

Bamana masks and headdresses, Lega ivories, Dogon sculpture, and Benue bronzes are among the many exquisite African artifacts found in the renowned Menil Collection. This stunning book--the first comprehensive catalogue on the de Menils' collection of African art--features 115 of the museum's finest pieces....

When Zulu women potters innovate or move to a more urban setting, they are asked why they have abandoned tradition. Yet when they continue to follow convention or choose to stay in rural areas, art historians speak of their work as unchanging symbols of...

Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials--never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums'...

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...

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and...

The African continent is home to numerous outstanding textile traditions, many dating to antiquity and all playing a multifaceted role in their respective societies: these eye-catching fabrics proclaim wealth and status, convey symbolic meanings, and of course serve a practical function in garments both...

Siyakha Mguni's personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as formlings. In Termites of the Gods, Siyakha Mguni narrates his personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto...

In the final installment of the Visual Century Collection, the impact of the end of the apartheid and the emergence of globalization upon South African artists is discussed. Visual Century: South African Art is a four-volume publication that reappraises South African visual art of...

A comprehensive account of the life and work of Dumile Feni This lavishly illustrated, full-colour book is the most comprehensive collection of Dumile Feni's work to date and a tribute to the retrospective exhibition run by the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2005, which toured...

This deluxe hardcover survey, featuring profiles of 50 artists on the rise, is the definitive guide to contemporary African art. With African artists attracting sizable audience numbers to museums, setting sky-high auction records, and appearing in mainstream press, it has become impossible to overlook...

Poem of Stone and Bone: The Iconography of James W. Washington Jr. in Fourteen Stanzas and Thirty-One Days documents four site-specific installations Carletta Carrington Wilson created in 2011 on the Seattle property of noted African American sculptor James W. Washington Jr. The book evolved...

"Promey's book is a penetrating analysis of Shaker art. . . . The book is a gem, a true advance in Shaker studies, art history, religious history, and cultural history. Highly recommended." --Choice" . . . a very intelligent and articulate . . ....

One of the most fascinating artistic phenomena in tropical Africa, mbari houses are little known outside Igboland. Art historian Herbert M. Cole has drawn from his extensive research in eastern Nigeria to produce the first book-length study of this unusual art form. Cole describes...

Focusing on a single Malian textile identified variously as bogolanfini, bogolan, or mudcloth, Victoria L. Rovine traces the dramatic technical and stylistic innovations that have transformed the cloth from its village origins into a symbol of new internationalism. Rovine shows how the biography of...

Everything Is Sampled examines the shifting modes of production and circulation of African artistic forms since the 1980s, focusing on digital culture as the most currently decisive setting for these changes. Drawing on works of cinema, literature, music, and visual art, Akin Adesokan. addresses...

Everything Is Sampled examines the shifting modes of production and circulation of African artistic forms since the 1980s, focusing on digital culture as the most currently decisive setting for these changes. Drawing on works of cinema, literature, music, and visual art, Akin Adesokan. addresses...

How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? Across South Africa, statues commemorating figures such as Cecil Rhodes have provoked heated protests, while new...

J. A. Green (1873-1905) was one of the most prolific and accomplished indigenous photographers to be active in West Africa. This beautiful book celebrates Green's photographs and opens a new chapter in the early photographic history of Africa. Soon after photography reached the west...

Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city's resources, possibilities, and connections. She examines how...

Humor and Violence examines the rich history of portraying Europeans in Central African art in images ranging from heart-wrenching scenes of human trafficking to playful parodies of colonialists. Z. S. Strother contends that the dialectic of humor and violence reveals deep insights into the...

A second volume published to mark the Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal, Contours provides a comprehensive view of contemporary African art through Dak'Art, one of the most important art forums on the continent.Author: Simon NjamiISBN-10: 3735602479ISBN-13: 9783735602473Publisher: Kerber VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2017Pages:...

A coloring book full of pride and affirmationsAuthor: Chenae Glaze-CookISBN-10: 1986857085ISBN-13: 9781986857086Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2018Pages: 30Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.06d

African art -- with its powerful forms, complex symbolism, and formal inventiveness -- has only recently come to be recognized as one of the great artistic traditions of mankind. This rich tradition is showcased here in a remarkable selection of outstanding works. Nearly 1,600...

For metalworkers, jewelry makers, leather crafters, and anyone interested in learning the crafting techniques of the Indigenous peoples of the Sahara. This book is a rare look at the artisans of the Tuareg people, who have made their home in North and West Africa...

More than a wrap is a book which contains rich information on headwrap styling. It is an informative yet educative book on the popular Headwrap craft in Africa and other parts of the world. From a thing of slavery into a thing of fashion...

African American women and young ladies developed fashion and imagination How to wear long and short hair and how to wear natural hair. Their styles include blacks, braids, hawks, bold undercuts and coils, twists, knots, halo braids, natural curls, locks, curls, This coloring book...

For centuries, the peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa have been producing domestic and professional embroidery to decorate themselves, their families, clients, homes and public spaces. Embroidery is an expression of artistic, personal, family, regional and even political creativity which has played an important role in...

Do you love coloring or know someone that does? Then this coloring book is for you, or it will make a great gift idea for your family and friends.Coloring is an excellent way to relax and unwind. Recent studies have shown that adult coloring...

Inventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair, disappointment, and rage at the injustice that South Africa's colonial and apartheid histories continue to trail in their wake. Wayward Feeling reveals...

The tradition of the veil, which refers to various cloth coverings of the head, face, and body, has been little studied in Africa, where Islam has been present for more than a thousand years. These lively essays raise questions about what is distinctive about...

A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African...

The role of the workshop in the creation of African art is the subject of this revelatory book. In the group setting of the workshop, innovation and imitation collide, artists share ideas and techniques, and creative expression flourishes. African Art and Agency in the...

Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume...