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  • Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters by Adesokan, Akinwumi
    Akinwumi Adesokan

    Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters

    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...
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  • Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters by Adesokan, Akinwumi
    Akinwumi Adesokan

    Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters

    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...
    $90.00
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  • Public Art in South Africa: Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents by Miller, Kim
    Kim Miller

    Public Art in South Africa: Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents

    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...
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  • African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial by Anderson, Martha G.
    Martha G. Anderson

    African Photographer J. A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial

    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...
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  • Art World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar by Grabski, Joanna
    Joanna Grabski

    Art World City: The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar

    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...
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  • Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art by Strother, Z. S.
    Z. S. Strother

    Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art

    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...
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  • Lil' Miss Melanie's Melanin by Glaze-Cook, Chenae
    Chenae Glaze-Cook

    Lil' Miss Melanie's Melanin

    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
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  • African Art in American Collections: Survey 1989 by Robbins, Warren M.
    Warren M. Robbins

    African Art in American Collections: Survey 1989

    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...
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  • Inadan, the Mastery of Tuareg Artisans: Contemporary and Traditional Work in Metal, Leather, and Wood by Cheminée, Matthieu
    Matthieu Chemin馥

    Inadan, the Mastery of Tuareg Artisans: Contemporary and Traditional Work in Metal, Leather, and Wood

    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...
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  • More Than a Wrap: The African Gele by Fatola, Eniola
    Eniola Fatola

    More Than a Wrap: The African Gele

    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...
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  • Afro Hairstyle coloring book: Gorgeous black women and men, Afro, dreadlocks, natural hair, African background, curly hair by Book, Smaart
    Smaart Book

    Afro Hairstyle coloring book: Gorgeous black women and men, Afro, dreadlocks, natural hair, African background, curly hair

    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...
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  • Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Sub-Saharan Africa by Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian
    Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood

    Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Sub-Saharan Africa

    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...
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  • Genet Coloring Book: 30 Hand Drawn Genet Coloring Pages. A great Gift For Animal Lovers Or Anyone That Loves Coloring. by Crystal Coloring Books
    Crystal Coloring Books

    Genet Coloring Book: 30 Hand Drawn Genet Coloring Pages. A great Gift For Animal Lovers Or Anyone That Loves Coloring.

    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...
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  • Wayward Feeling: Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa by Strauss, Helene
    Helene Strauss

    Wayward Feeling: Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa

    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...
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  • Veiling in Africa by Renne, Elisha P.
    Elisha P. Renne

    Veiling in Africa

    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...
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  • A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo by Roberts, Allen F.
    Allen F. Roberts

    A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

    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...
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  • African Art and Agency in the Workshop by Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield
    Sidney Littlefield Kasfir

    African Art and Agency in the Workshop

    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...
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  • African Art, Interviews, Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work by Grabski, Joanna
    Joanna Grabski

    African Art, Interviews, Narratives: Bodies of Knowledge at Work

    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...
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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?...
    $120.00
    $120.00
    $120.00
  • 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...
    $50.00
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