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Masks of Black Africa (African Art Art of Illustration) by Ladislas Segy Publisher Comments In this stunning collection, 247 photographs of masks, identified by tribe, place, and ritual use, are featured. Dogon, Senufo, many more.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Rock Art of Africa by Jean Loi Le Quellec Publisher Comments African Cave Art is the only book of its kind to examine cave art throughout Africa. The paintings and engravings discovered in African caves are amazing works of art that hold clues to understanding the history of humankind. Jean-Loic Le Quellec offers... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $28.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Art and the End of Apartheid by John Peffer Synopsis Black South African artists have typically had their work labeled “African art” or “township art,” qualifiers that, when contrasted with simply “modernist art,” have been used to marginalize their work both in South... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe by Mar Courtney Clarke Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 198) and index.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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African Sculpture (58 Edition) by Ladislas Segy Publisher Comments A stunning collection of 164 photographic plates of African masks, votive figures, metalwork, carvings, with introduction. Ashanti, Yoruba, Benin, more.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary African Art (99 Edition) by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir Publisher Comments An associate professor of art history from Emory University offers a critical history of African art, examining major themes and accomplishments of the past 50 years. 170 illustrations, 70 in color.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Impressions from South Africa 1965 - Now: Prints from the Museum of Modern Art by Museum Of Modern Art Publisher Comments Encompassing black-and-white linoleum cuts made at community art centers in the 1960s and 1970s, resistance posters and other political art of the 1980s and the wide variety of subjects and techniques explored by artists in printshops over the last two... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Angaza Afrika: African Art Now by Chris Spring Synopsis The mission of this book is to illustrate Africa's immensely fertile artistic landscape. Africa has emerged from its colonial past and is asserting its own identity. African art is not only confined to the continent itself, but has spread world-wide... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The gold of the pharaohs. by Henri Stierlin Synopsis A breathtaking glimpse into the coffers of ancient Egypt, revealing gold and silver artifacts and other rare treasures from royal tombs.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection by Kathleen Bi Berzock Publisher Comments Practicing centuries-old techniques that have been passed through generations, African potters craft their wares by hand from terra cotta clay, firing them in the open to create vessels of amazing durability. These pieces embody an immediacy of form and... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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South African Art Now by Sue Williamson Publisher Comments Described by international curator Okwui Enwezor as "one of the most dynamic and vigorous spaces of artistic practice," contemporary South African art is an exciting, emerging scene that is attracting the attention of international museums, curators, and... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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The Wonders of Africa: African Arts in Italian Collections by Ivan Bargna Publisher Comments The Wonders of Africa provides a generous overview of the wealth of African art held in Italian collections. Works are examined under four themed chapters: Collections, Masks, Fetishes and Invisibles (i.e. representations of folkloric creatures such as... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $39.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Street Graphics Egypt by Barry Dawson Publisher Comments Thousands of years ago, Egyptians carved a pictorial history of Pharaonic culture on their temples, tombs, and monuments. Representations and interpretations of this ancient culture saturate modern Egypt's tourism industry, from hotel signs and theme... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African Art Portfolio: An Illustrated Introduction: Masterpieces from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries by Carol Thompson Synopsis A superb introduction to African art, this illustrated portfolio will engross people interested in African culture. Newcomers and African art enthusiasts alike can learn about these traditions in a format that is accessible, educational, and enjoyable... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Portfolio
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Black Africa: Masks, Sculptures, Jewels (Smart) by Laure Meyer Publisher Comments Covers the objects that express the influence of myths on the daily life and inventive genius of more than 60 ethnic groups, and examines the entire range from aesthetic and ethnological points of view.... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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African Art by Stefan Eisenhofer Synopsis With examples from every region of the continent, "African Art" demonstrates the wide variety of creative design and describes the social and religious background for each piece.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $7.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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African Sculpture Speaks Fourth Edition Enlarged by Ladislas Segy Publisher Comments Historian and collector Ladislas Segy approaches African art from several different but interrelated perspectives, considering sculptures first as products of a distinct African culture, then as high-quality works of art. Seeking to bring the African... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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African Art (World of Art) by Frank Willett Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-267) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures by Alisa Lagamma Publisher Comments Over the centuries, artists across sub-Saharan Africa have memorialized eminent figures in their societies using an astonishingly diverse repertoire of naturalistic and abstract sculptural idioms. Adopting complex aesthetic fromulations, they idealized... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Twentieth-Century Egyptian Art: The Private Collection of Sherwet Shafei by Mona Abaza Publisher Comments The private collection of a prominent Egyptian art gallery owner. Egypt's modern art scene has been marked by many influential local and foreign painters. Mona Abaza retraces the highlights of the country's twentieth-century art world through the private... (read more) Your price: $49.50 New - Hardcover
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