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Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist
Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist chronicles the evolution of Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi's work over more than fifty years of sustained artistic productivity and intellectual engagement.
Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope)
Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope) presents the work of one of the most significant South African artists today--whose hybrid mutants speak to the porous borders between humans and other forms of animal life.
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
When I Last Wrote to You about Africa brings together the full range of El Anatsui's work from wood trays and early ceramics, through chainsaw-carved wood, to his most recent luminous metal sculptures and wall hangings.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria 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.
The Beautiful Time: Photography by Sammy Baloji
The Beautiful Time presents recent photographs and large-scale photomontages by Sammy Baloji.
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
Through the prism of America's most enduring African-inspired art form, the Lowcountry basket, Grass Roots guides readers across 300 years of American and African history.
Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermes Collection
Desert Jewels presents a superb collection of jewelry and late 19th- and early 20th-century photographs of North African landscapes, urban scenes, and portraits.
Facing the Mask
Facing the Mask uses the mask, a central element for many African societies, as a marvelous point of entry into the arts, diverse cultures, and richly varied traditions of Africa.
A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art
A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art presents popular paintings depicting the dramatic political career of Patrice Lumumba, the father of Congo independence who became the nation's first Prime Minister in 1960.
Closeup: Lessons in Art of Seeing African Sculpture
This catalogue presents African art objects of exceptional quality from an American collection and the Horstmann collection. Analysis of the sculptures guides the eye, describing points of style, design, and technique.
Personal Affects: Power & Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, Vol 1
Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art presents newly commissioned and recently produced art by17 South African artists working in diverse media.
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora features new and recent works by artists who were born in Africa and now live and work in Western countries.
Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World
Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World attempts to define the nature of portraiture in world art.
Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa
This exhibition catalogue gives insight into a unique period of transition in today's South Africa through the examination of its contemporary art.
Home and the World: Architectural Sculpture by Two Contemporary African Artists
Home and the World: Architectural Sculpture by Two Contemporary African Artists gazes at African heritage and the future through the art of contemporary artists, Aboudramane and Bodys Isek Kingelez.
Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa
Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa reveals the traditions, rituals, and spiritual powers intrinsic to the materials used to create works of art in Africa. LIMITED QUANTIES AVAILABLE.
Perspectives: Angles on African Art
In Perspectives: Angles on African Art, ten distinguished connoisseurs explore the beauty and appeal in over one hundred African artworks of the highest aesthetic quality and tremendous ranges of styles and cultures.
Western Artists, African Art
This catalogue features fifty African objects from twenty-eight acclaimed contemporary artists' collections, some creatively photographed as they appear in their studios and living rooms. LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal Urhobo Art
The first major catalogue devoted to the art and culture of the Urhobo people of the Niger River Delta in Nigeria. LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE
Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
This catalogue draws attention to different ways of looking at Baule art and culture and reveals how Baule art differs from most traditional African art. LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE.
Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art
This catalogue discusses how African artists have confronted and reinterpreted Western images and ideas in terms of their own cultures to create a vibrant mix of old artistic traditions and new techniques, forms, and ideas.
Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art
Resonance from the Past: African Sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art features over 100 works of art from the New Orleans Museum of Art chosen for their exceptional range of style and quality.
Fusion: West African Artists at the Venice Biennale
This catalogue contributes to a new understanding of "African art," removed definitively from the realm of the ethnographic, and firmly placed within the framework of the transcultural aesthetic.
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention traces the art and cultural history of the Baga people of Guinea, West Africa.
In the Presence of Spirits: African Art from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon
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