Art - African

2021 Reprint of the 1940 Edition. Profusely Illustrated. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. A major document of African American Art up to 1940. With copious notes and artist biographies. Illustrated by Plates of the works of Juan...

Bestselling coloring book artist Marjorie Sarnat has teamed with fashion designer Cia Slater to create this gorgeous collection of 31 classic African-inspired images. Striking silhouetted figures wear beautiful head wraps and flowing gowns decorated with patterns based on traditional African arts and crafts designs....

245 days of life under lockdown in Kenya through the dazzling artwork of prolific expressionist painter Mary Collis. On the first day of Kenya's COVID-19 lockdown, Mary Collis decided to post a painting to her Facebook page, suggesting she would "lift the day" during...

In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation in South Africa and transforming them into...

Reading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The "Black Art" Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris...

From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries;...

San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the...

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in...

A collection of Jamaican folktales about Annancy the Spider as told by famous Tarot artist Pamela C. Smith with a foreward by the publisher.Author: Pamela C. SmithISBN-10: 0976961229ISBN-13: 9780976961222Publisher: Darker Intentions PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2006Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.17d

This visually rich survey showcases the work of over two hundred artists from more than forty countries as it explores and celebrates street art in Africa over the last decade. In Street Art Africa, readers can reflect on works such as the monumental Murais...

West Africa, 1971. Two old friends rendezvous in Black Star Square, the heart of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, to see Ike and Tina Turner, the Staples Singers, Roberta Flack, Wilson Picket, Santana and other black American performers at the mammoth Soul to Soul music...

A conversation with filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, exploring how his work with montage can be understood to articulate contemporaneity in sensuous ways. Taking the form of a conversation with filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah, this book sets out to explore how Akomfrah's work...

Adinkra symbols originated in Ghana, they reflect common wisdom. The symbols relate to God, quality of human relations and the spirituality of life. Now you can spend hours in blissful stress relief therapy. May this book bring you many years of enjoyment and wisdom.Author:...

THE BEST GIFT IDEA COLOR BY NUMBER FOR GROWN-UPS Each number means a particular color from a 25-color palette. You will KNOW the secrect pictures that HIDDEN on the pages when you START COLORING them. - Each coloring page is designed to help relax...

The first book on the South-African sculptor Angus Taylor to offer a comprehensive survey of his entire work to date. South African sculptor Angus Taylor, born in Johannesburg in 1970 and alumnus of the University of Pretoria, is known mainly for his monumental works....

This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa's pre-colonial story.Author: Cynthia KrosISBN-10: 1776147278ISBN-13: 9781776147274Publisher: Wits University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2022Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.80d

For the first time African headrests are brought to life with detailed information on their carvers, and the stories of their creation, ownership, and useHeadrests from Southern Africa - The architecture of sleep presents the subject of southern African headrests in a fascinating new...

In this wide-ranging monograph, the achievements of Irma Stern, one of South Africa's most celebrated painters, are introduced to a contemporary audience. The vivid and powerful expressionist paintings of Irma Stern were a key factor in the modernization of early 20th-century South African art....

A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are no museums, plaques,...

The result of extensive recent research, Migrating Objects reveals Peggy Guggenheim's two-decade period of collecting beyond the European and North American art with which she is usually associatedIn the 1950s and '60s, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) began to turn her attentions as a collector toward...

Western approaches to Africa's visual culture have until recently separated 'traditional' from 'modern' as if the two categories had no common ground, and as if only the former was authentically African. Yet 'tradition' is also an active process of handing on, one subject to...

The first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.Author: D. O. FagunwaISBN-10: 0872866300ISBN-13: 9780872866300Publisher: City Lights BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2013Pages: 153Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/26/2013

This book contains 50 Adinkra (African) symbols with their names and their meanings for your education and coloring relaxation. Each symbol has been uniquely designed and patterned to give you satisfaction and to ignite the passion of coloring.Ready for an excited adventure? Order your...

A timely exploration of the allusive, sculptural fiber work of an important contemporary South African artist The book presents an early career survey of the work of Cape Town-based artist Igshaan Adams (b. 1982), showcasing his multimedia practice since 2009. In addition to exploring...

On Kesang Lamdark's sculptural explorations of Tibetan and Western heritagesCombining unusual materials, from hair to plastic, beer cans to nail polish, Swiss Tibetan artist Kesang Lamdark's (born 1963) art is marked by his displaced and multicultural upbringing. This publication gathers his sculptural works.Author: Kesang...

African folktales are believed to have a unifying power between the living and the dead. It not only connects the ancestors to the present generations, it has a link or message for future generations. They communicate morals and traditions to the young in preparation...

Unleash your creativity with "Adult Coloring Books for Black Women". Did you know that Coloring mandala illustrations with beautiful black women can increase self-confidence and is a form of art therapy that can reduce anxiety, tension and overall stress. Coloring stimulates creativity and is...

In Kuyu, part of the Visions of Africa series, the reader will find a wide range of authentic objects belonging to a traditional Equatorial African culture, as well as a reconstruction of the migration routes that would explain such a seemingly motley collection of...

You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock / Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokotho is a bristling example of protest theatre making during the height of apartheid. Created in ensemble fashion in 1986 by director Phyllis Klotz in collaboration with performers Thobeka Maqhutyana, Nomvula Qosha...

This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa's pre-colonial story.Author: Cynthia KrosISBN-10: 1776147286ISBN-13: 9781776147281Publisher: Wits University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2022Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

Bukgee {pronounced Book-Gi} Coloring is a book collection highlighting African history, culture, and traditions. Volume I: An introduction to Adinkra {pronounced Ah-Din-Kra}Adinkra symbols date back to the 18th century and have been used throughout history to communicate and covey an emotion. Learn about some...

A previously unseen trove of Kenyan studio portraits, expressing a photographer's vision and a city's lively identityWhen the Kenyan-born photographer N.V. Parekh opened his Mombasa portrait studio in 1942, the city was galvanized. People came to visit Parekh from all over East Africa to...

Discover the music and culture of West Africa in this beautifully illustrated account of an artist's adventures in the Niger River valley. Djoliba Crossing is both an adventure memoir and a guidebook for the music traditions of West Africa. Descriptions of ancient music and...

It's finally time to hope again with this Inspirational coloring book by Latoya Nicole - Colors of Hope: A Christian Coloring Book Celebrating Black and Brown Women and it's the perfect gift to yourself.We all need hope. The good news is that as a...

The traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles covers, as no other volume has, the handmade textiles of West, North, East, Central, and Southern Africa, outlining the range of weaving techniques, and the...

In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural. Collier responds to these preoccupations by exploring African artworks that challenge these narratives. From one...

Publication of results from the conference on early symbolic culture and the evolution of behavioral modernity, held as part of the Hugo Obermaier Meeting in Heidenheim, Germany.Author: Nicholas J. ConardISBN-10: 3935751311ISBN-13: 9783935751315Publisher: Kerns VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2024Pages: 330Format: Hardcover

GIFT IDEAS COLOURING BOOKS COLOR BY NUMBER These relaxing illustrations of this coloring book are sure to bring you calm and peace with every pages. And these pictures are easy to see to make this a stress free coloring experience for colorists of all...

Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book delves into the rich world of Ghanaian fashion, demonstrating how, over time, local dress styles and materials have been fused with global trends to create innovative, high fashion garments that reflect a distinctly Ghanaian cosmopolitanism....

"Sokunge/As if ". "Sokunge", is a Shona word that describes phenomena that is intrinsically something else other than their appearance. More like deception or dissimulation of form, concept, or sound. In this exhibition, I was looking at forms that appear as something, but upon...

This new history of over 5,000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Garlake focuses on seven key regions--southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West...

The cornerstone of current understanding of rock art of the San of Drakensberg First published in 1976, People of the Eland was the first major step away from the outsider's view upon San rock art that had dominated studies of rock art for nearly...

Made from quotidian materials, Kingelez's sculptures evoke visionary architecturesThe sculptures of Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948-2015) are imagined architectural propositions and improbable structures for a fairytale urban landscape. Comprised of paper, commercial packaging and the stuff of everyday life, his "extreme maquettes" transform these materials...

After winning the Thetis Blacker Award, the author embarks on a trip through West Africa to observe the different textiles of the region. African textiles are loved by many but little is known about their history. These textiles have a hypnotic effect, the ability...

Traditional and contemporary works from one of the most important African art collectionsDrawing on historical and contemporary art from Congolese art collector Sindika Dokolo's collection, IncarNations looks at masks, images and historic objects from Africa and its diasporas.Author: Kendall GeersISBN-10: 8836642993ISBN-13: 9788836642991Publisher: Silvana EditorialeLanguage:...

GIFT IDEAS COLOURING BOOKS COLOR BY NUMBER These relaxing illustrations of this coloring book are sure to bring you calm and peace with every pages. And these pictures are easy to see to make this a stress free coloring experience for colorists of all...

It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo's first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project remained...

The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals. At a time when the art of the African diaspora has aroused much general interest for its multicultural dimensions,...

You can't pour from an empty cup. Give yourself permission to focus on self-care and self-love. It is important for your physical wellness and mental health, as well as for the health of your relationships. This 90 day journal encourages women to make themselves...

A selection from the legendary makeup mogul's African art collection, with new research and imagesWith her business acumen and ever-fresh sense of style, it is no wonder that Polish-American businesswoman Helena Rubinstein's (1872-1965) was once one of the cosmetics industry's most powerful moguls. Called...