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  • Sungi Mlengeya by Mlengeya, Sungi
    Sungi Mlengeya

    Sungi Mlengeya

    Whether infused by movement or stillness, Mlengeya's black-and-white portrait paintings radiate both power and peaceBorn in 1991 in Dar es Salaam, Sungi Mlengeya captures the essence of Black womanhood in her haunting monochromatic acrylic portraits. The meticulously painted figures are set against a minimalist...
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  • Yorùbá Art and Aesthetics: Methodologies and Their Consequences by Hallen, Barry
    Barry Hallen

    Yorùbá Art and Aesthetics: Methodologies and Their Consequences

    An introduction to the art and aesthetics of southwest Nigeria using the writings of Yorùbá scholars and artists who have made these subjects their special interest over the last forty years. Barry Hallen brings together the writings of four pioneering Yorùbá thinkers who write...
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  • Ancient Nubian Art: A History by Freed, Rita E.
    Rita E. Freed

    Ancient Nubian Art: A History

    Lushly illustrated with stunning artifacts, this volume is the first comprehensive and accessible publication to explore the art, architecture, and material culture of ancient Nubia. Kings and queens of Nubia reigned over one of the largest empires in the ancient world and had contacts...
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  • Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2026 (Art Calendar) by Flame Tree Studio
    Flame Tree Studio

    Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2026 (Art Calendar)

    Tamara Natalie Madden's regal, glistening portraits elevated the everyday people she met. A fine new art calendar from Flame Tree. Tamara Natalie Madden was born in Jamaica and settled in the USA. Her life was blighted by illness, but she found solace and success...
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  • Perfumes: Their Sensual Lure And Charm by Carrington, Hereward
    Hereward Carrington

    Perfumes: Their Sensual Lure And Charm

    Perfumes: Their Sensual Lure And Charm is a book written by Hereward Carrington, which delves into the world of fragrances and their impact on human senses. The book is an in-depth exploration of the history, science, and art of perfumery, covering topics such as...
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  • Yaka by Bourgeois, Arthur
    Arthur Bourgeois

    Yaka

    The Yaka, a tribe in the southwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have for over a century produced figurative statuettes, masks, and other objects which have fascinated Western scholars, collectors, and explorers. This impressive book brings together some of the earliest...
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  • Pende: Visions of Africa by Strother, Zoe S.
    Zoe S. Strother

    Pende: Visions of Africa

    Although many societies in the Congo were once renowned for vibrant masquerades and architectural sculpture, these phenomena have only been studied as living traditions among a handful of peoples, most notably the Pende. Building on the extended fieldwork of numerous researchers since the 1950s,...
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  • Luba: Visions of Africa by Roberts, Mary Nooter
    Mary Nooter Roberts

    Luba: Visions of Africa

    This image-filled book features outstanding works of Luba art from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Major themes to be addressed include the role of visual and performance arts in Luba traditional politics; the symbolism of the female image and why 'the king is a...
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  • Restless Infections: Public Art and a Transforming City by Pather, Jay
    Jay Pather

    Restless Infections: Public Art and a Transforming City

    Restless Infections is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa. The writers examine seminal artworks by South African artists, addressing diverse forms of expression such as site-specific performances, immersive...
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  • Color African Art by Mitra, Swarna
    Swarna Mitra

    Color African Art

    The 'Color African Art' book in the "World Culture Art Coloring Series," extends far beyond a regular coloring book. There are thirty-eight pages filled with images that are both culturally rich and stunning, complete with a brief historical footnote for each image. Pages also...
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  • The Story Of Siena And San Gimignano by Gardner, Edmund G.
    Edmund G. Gardner

    The Story Of Siena And San Gimignano

    ""The Story of Siena and San Gimignano"" by Edmund G. Gardner is a historical account of two of the most important cities in Tuscany, Italy. The book explores the rich cultural heritage and architectural marvels of these two cities, which have played a significant...
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  • Emblems Of Saints: By Which They Are Distinguished In Works Of Art by Husenbeth, F. C.
    F. C. Husenbeth

    Emblems Of Saints: By Which They Are Distinguished In Works Of Art

    ""Emblems of Saints: By Which They Are Distinguished in Works of Art"" is a comprehensive guide to the symbols and emblems commonly associated with saints in Christian art. Written by F.C. Husenbeth, this book provides an in-depth exploration of the various attributes and characteristics...
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  • African Masks and Emotions: In Theory and in Practice by Strother, Z. S.
    Z. S. Strother

    African Masks and Emotions: In Theory and in Practice

    In this open-access text, Z. S. Strother uses ethnographic studies of individual mask cultures in Africa to dispute the assumptions that masks universally hide, reveal, or transform. In Western European languages, the word mask exerts a powerful presence as a figure of speech. To...
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  • Black Ancient Futures by Maissune, Camila
    Camila Maissune

    Black Ancient Futures

    A collection of a significant group of artistic voices from the vast African diaspora that offers visual and philosophical thought rich in references to African history, mysticism, mythology, ecology, and fiction. The visual and textual proposals presented in Black Ancient Futures challenge the dominant...
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  • A Meeting of Cultures: Fashioning North Africa by Hume, Sara
    Sara Hume

    A Meeting of Cultures: Fashioning North Africa

    Dazzling designs and the multifaceted fashion scene of North Africa. A Meeting of Cultures is a pathbreaking work focused specifically on contemporary fashion designers and influencers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. Lavishly illustrated, it broadens the scope of scholarship on the fashion...
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  • The Call by Hage, Rawi
    Rawi Hage

    The Call

    A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place. Following one of the Turfan archaeological expeditions in the early 1900s, a fragment of a Manichaean text written in Uighur and Old Turkic found its way to the Asian Art Museum in Berlin. Originating from the...
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  • The Artisans by Thien, Madeleine
    Madeleine Thien

    The Artisans

    Is there an autonomous republic of art that transcends time and place? Canadian writer Madeleine Thien reflects on a fragment of a mural depicting Three Uighur Princes from one of the Bezeklik Caves along the Northern Silk Road, in what is now the Xinjiang...
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  • The Making of a Masterpiece: The Fowokan George Kelly Story by Andrews, J. K.
    J. K. Andrews

    The Making of a Masterpiece: The Fowokan George Kelly Story

    From Kingston, Jamaica, to London, England, 'The Making of a Masterpiece' recounts the remarkable, true story of Fowokan George Kelly-a contemporary creative artist, musician and visionary who defied the odds.Arriving in the UK as a boy in 1957, Fowokan faced the harsh realities of...
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  • India Impressions: With Some Notes Of Ceylon During A Winter Tour, 1906-07 (1907) by Crane, Walter
    Walter Crane

    India Impressions: With Some Notes Of Ceylon During A Winter Tour, 1906-07 (1907)

    India Impressions: With Some Notes Of Ceylon During A Winter Tour, 1906-07 is a travelogue written by Walter Crane in 1907. It is a detailed account of his travels through India and Ceylon during the winter of 1906-07. The book is filled with vivid...
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  • The Pictorial Field-Book Of The War Of 1812 V1 by Lossing, Benson J.
    Benson J. Lossing

    The Pictorial Field-Book Of The War Of 1812 V1

    The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 is a comprehensive historical account of the War of 1812, written by Benson J. Lossing. This book is the first volume of the series and is filled with vivid illustrations, maps, and descriptions of the battles,...
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  • Masquerades in African Society: Gender, Power and Identity by Van Beek, Walter E. a.
    Walter E. a. Van Beek

    Masquerades in African Society: Gender, Power and Identity

    Explores the dynamics of African masquerades and mask performances on the continent, linking performative expressions to societal characteristics. What is the meaning of masks and masquerades in African traditions and how can we understand their role in rituals and performances? Why do we find...
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  • Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage by Osayimwese, Itohan I.
    Itohan I. Osayimwese

    Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage

    A groundbreaking history of Africa's looted architectural heritage--and a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent's stolen cultural artifacts Between the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists dismembered African buildings and dispersed their parts to museums in Europe and the...
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  • Yor?b? Art and Aesthetics: Methodologies and Their Consequences by Hallen, Barry
    Barry Hallen

    Yor?b? Art and Aesthetics: Methodologies and Their Consequences

    An introduction to the art and aesthetics of southwest Nigeria using the writings of Yor?b? scholars and artists who have made these subjects their special interest over the last forty years. Barry Hallen brings together the writings of four pioneering Yor?b? thinkers who write...
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    $75.00
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  • Finding Your Soul by Publishers, Freebird
    Freebird Publishers

    Finding Your Soul

    When asked about what makes art meaningful to me the first thing, I could think of was that I think it saved my life. Life is not always easy, and sometimes you are dealt a bad hand. But my artwork has been something that...
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  • Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film by McNair, Lucy R.
    Lucy R. McNair

    Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film

    An introduction to North African Indigenous cinema through a new understanding of the Amazigh homelandsAmazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film examines the emergence of Amazigh visual media in its historical and cultural contexts and engages in a decolonization of the studies...
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  • The Arts of Africa: Studying and Conserving the Collection; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by Woodward, Richard B.
    Richard B. Woodward

    The Arts of Africa: Studying and Conserving the Collection; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

    A groundbreaking analysis of one of the most significant collections of African art in the United States The collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in all media from...
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  • How to Read African Textiles by Giuntini, Christine
    Christine Giuntini

    How to Read African Textiles

    The latest volume in The Met's How to Read series, focusing on the rich and varied textiles of Africa through forty exemplars from the nineteenth century to the present day Across the African continent, handwoven cloth and clothing have historically been labor-intensive creations deeply...
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  • The Art of Afrofuturism: Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora by Publications, Sandu
    Sandu Publications

    The Art of Afrofuturism: Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora

    The Art of Afrofuturism explores the groundbreaking artwork of dozens of artists from multiple continents and across the African Diaspora who are contributing to a new vision of the future and their place in it. Whether from the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, North...
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  • African Art: The Arak Collection by Jamal, Ashraf
    Ashraf Jamal

    African Art: The Arak Collection

    A 300-plus-page primer on the vanguards of contemporary African artThe Qatar-based ARAK Collection holds over 4,000 works of contemporary African art. The more than 100 works presented here provide a comprehensive overview of continental trends. Each artist receives a biographical essay written by Ghanian...
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  • Henok Melkamzer: Telsem Symbols and Imagery by Melkamzer, Henok
    Henok Melkamzer

    Henok Melkamzer: Telsem Symbols and Imagery

    A rare look into the ancient Ethiopian art of telsem from a modern master of the practiceRealized in collaboration with the Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Sharjah Art Foundation, this comprehensive survey features work by the prolific contemporary Ethiopian artist Henok Melkamzer, who has attained...
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  • Radio Brown Atlantis by Hameed, Ayesha
    Ayesha Hameed

    Radio Brown Atlantis

    Artists from across the African and South Asian diasporas grapple with colonial legacies through a reimagining of the lost city of Atlantis transplanted to the bottom of the Indian OceanWhat if the book was a technology invented at sea? How would its language reflect...
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  • Clive Van Den Berg by Van Den Berg, Clive
    Clive Van Den Berg

    Clive Van Den Berg

    Evoking landscapes and the human body as sites of memory, van den Berg inserts queer perspectives into the larger rewriting of South African historyZambia-born, South Africa-based artist Clive van den Berg (born 1956) produces a range of multimedia works unified by five themes: memory,...
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  • Magdalene Sacranie

    Wisdom Tales from Africa

    Wisdom Tales from Africa is an anthology of stories drawn from several African traditions. Wisdom stories were traditionally told by the elders of the group, and besides being a wonderful source of entertainment, they served to emphasize the consequences of certain behavior.The wisdom, truths...
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  • Culture & The Contemporary African: (A festschrift for Mai Palmberg) by Petersen, Kirsten Holst
    Kirsten Holst Petersen

    Culture & The Contemporary African: (A festschrift for Mai Palmberg)

    Culture and the Contemporary AfricanEdited by Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju and Kirsten Holst PetersenThe contributions in this volume span the globally contested domains of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and aesthetics, with specific reference to Africa.They also cover the key cultural areas of language, literature, music, dance,...
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  • Catherine McGrew Jaime

    In Art: Angels

    "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." Psalm 91:11 This little booklet highlights more than 500 years of paintings with angels, many of them scenes from the New Testament, and some from the Old Testament....
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  • Allan Marquand

    Giovanni Della Robbia (1920)

    Giovanni Della Robbia is a book written by Allan Marquand and published in 1920. The book is a comprehensive study of the life and work of the Italian Renaissance sculptor Giovanni Della Robbia. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which explores...
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  • Bruno Claessens

    Baule Monkeys

    The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture--rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-inspiring bowl-bearing figures evoke invisible powers...
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  • Splendours of the Atlas: A Voyage Through Morocco's Heritage by Barbey, Bruno
    Bruno Barbey

    Splendours of the Atlas: A Voyage Through Morocco's Heritage

    Author: Bruno BarbeyISBN-10: 8836658938ISBN-13: 9788836658930Publisher: Silvana EditorialeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages: 208Format: Paperback
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  • The Shadows, and Hope by W, Juliet
    Juliet W

    The Shadows, and Hope

    Join me on an inspiring poetic journey towards rediscovering hope amidst the existential crisis that often clouds our minds. With classic styles ranging from Haiku to Tanka and more, this beautifully crafted collection of poems will accompany you on a soulful quest of the...
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  • Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa by Garb, Tamar
    Tamar Garb

    Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa

    Author: Tamar Garb, Sinazo ChiyaISBN-10: 1904561705ISBN-13: 9781904561705Publisher: Kettle's YardLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2024Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 11.40h x 8.80w x 0.60d
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  • Ramblings of a life in Africa by Bunn, Anita
    Anita Bunn

    Ramblings of a life in Africa

    During 1988 Anita Bunn left South Africa for America to see how other people lived. It would be for 36 months, she told her mother. She returned 8 years later with her son and settled into a small cottage on a big farm in...
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  • The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art by Lauzon, Claudette
    Claudette Lauzon

    The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art

    In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma.Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke...
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  • Casablanca Art School: A Postcolonial Avant-Garde 1962-1987 by Montazami, Morad
    Morad Montazami

    Casablanca Art School: A Postcolonial Avant-Garde 1962-1987

    Author: Morad MontazamiISBN-10: 3959058489ISBN-13: 9783959058483Publisher: Spector BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 136Format: Paperback
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  • Mobilizing: Benin Heritage in Swiss Museums by Tisa Francini, Esther
    Esther Tisa Francini

    Mobilizing: Benin Heritage in Swiss Museums

    Features the provenance research undertaken at eight Swiss museums on their Benin collections and the dialogue on the objects' history and future with partners in Nigeria. This multifaceted reader explores the cultural heritage of the Kingdom of Benin, in the territory of what today...
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  • The Vampire Multiverse: Zombie Wars by Lecapois, Teejay
    Teejay Lecapois

    The Vampire Multiverse: Zombie Wars

    Welcome to a particularly dark corner of the Multiverse. In the second decade of the 21st Century, a deadly virus turned hundreds of thousands of people into Vampire-like, bloodthirsty creatures. Those creatures fed upon the Human race, driving them to near extinction. As Humanity...
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  • Egypt: the Book of Time by Gfoeller, Michael
    Michael Gfoeller

    Egypt: the Book of Time

    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...
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  • Moroccan Modernism by Powers, Holiday
    Holiday Powers

    Moroccan Modernism

    In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca ?cole des beaux-arts, transforming the colonial relic into a wellspring of Moroccan modernism. Casablanca School artists, including Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, and Mohammed Melehi, defined the modernist movement in Morocco....
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  • Moroccan Modernism by Powers, Holiday
    Holiday Powers

    Moroccan Modernism

    In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca ?cole des Beaux-Arts, transforming the colonial relic into a zeitgeist of Moroccan modernism. Casablanca School artists, including Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, and Mohammed Melehi, defined the modernist movement in Morocco...
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  • Artistic Awakenings in Mixed Media: Monographs on Wangechi Mutu's Afrofuturistic Collages and Their Social Commentary by Brightsky, Sloane
    Sloane Brightsky

    Artistic Awakenings in Mixed Media: Monographs on Wangechi Mutu's Afrofuturistic Collages and Their Social Commentary

    Author: Sloane BrightskyISBN-13: 9798348428044Publisher: Sloane BrightskyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2025Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d
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  • Curating Transcultural Spaces: Perspectives on Postcolonial Conflicts in Museum Culture by Hegenbart, Sarah
    Sarah Hegenbart

    Curating Transcultural Spaces: Perspectives on Postcolonial Conflicts in Museum Culture

    Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like. Can identity be global and local at the same time? How may one curate dual identity? More broadly, what is the link between the arts and processes...
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