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Publications
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.
Facing the Mask
Facing the Mask uses the mask, a central element for many African societies, as a marvelous point of entry into Africa--its arts, its diverse cultures, and its richly varied traditions.
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 works of 17 whose common thread is the highly personal point of departure of their working methods, informed by their varied experiences as South Africans.
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora features artists born in Africa who now live and work in Western countries including France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United States.
Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World
Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World defines the nature of portraiture in world art. An understanding of African portraiture erases the initially perceived differences among portraiture throughout the world.
Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa
This exhibition catalogue gives an insight into a unique period of transition in today's South Africa through this 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 from Ivory Coast and Bodys Isek Kingelez from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa
The text and the exhibitons reveals the traditions, rituals, and spiritual powers intrinsic to the materials used to create works of art in Africa which are profoundly significant. 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
To Cure and Protect Sickness and Health in African Art
This catalogue examines a range of artworks from various sub-Saharan cultures' reflecting beliefs about health, disease, and prevention. LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE
Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
This catalogue draws attention to different ways of looking both at Baule culture and in the West and reveals that Baule art differs from most traditional African art. LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE.
Africa Explores: 20th Century African Art
Africa Explores: Twentieth Century African Art 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 Venice Biennle
Fusion: West African Artists at the Venice Biennale contribute to a new understanding of "African art"--removed from the realm of the ethnographic and placed within the framework of contemporary transcultural aesthetics of Western artists.
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention
Art of the Baga traces the art and cultural history of the Baga people of Guinea, West Africa from their legendary flight from the highlands of the interior of Guinea to the coast.
