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Personal Affects: Season South Africa: Volume I
Personal Affects: Season South Africa: Volume I
by Perryer Sophie
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The visual arts exhibition, Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, presents newly commissioned and recently produced works by seventeen South African artists. The artworks represent the artists' responses to a weeklong... (read more)

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Making History: The Femi Akinsanya African Art Collection
Making History: The Femi Akinsanya African Art Collection
by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
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This sumptuous book presents important artworks from Africa, of Yoruba, Igbo, Urhobo, Cross River, Benin, and Benue River Valley origins. Sculptures from throughout Nigeria as well as Edo/Benin bronze and brass sculptures are featured, all from a major... (read more)

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African Sculpture (African Art Art of Illustration)
African Sculpture (African Art Art of Illustration)
by Ladislas Segy
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A stunning collection of 164 photographic plates of African masks, votive figures, metalwork, carvings, with introduction. Ashanti, Yoruba, Benin, more.... (read more)

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African Art: A Century at the Brooklyn Museum
African Art: A Century at the Brooklyn Museum
by William Siegmann
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Available in book form for the first time, this volume presents highlights from the renowned collection of African art from the Brooklyn Museum.... (read more)

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The Shape of Belief: African Art from the Dr. Michael R. Heide Collection
The Shape of Belief: African Art from the Dr. Michael R. Heide Collection
by Mary Nooter Roberts
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The catalogue of an exhibit at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, November 1996 to April 1997, illustrating in color 70 objects donated to the museum by art collector Heide. Also includes an essay on the art forms and cultures, and map of West... (read more)

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African Art in Detail (Art in Detail)
African Art in Detail (Art in Detail)
by Chris Spring
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This book opens with the question: What is African art? The answer is a brilliantly colorful and detailed look at the myriad materials and genres, forms and meanings, cultural contexts and expressions that comprise artistic traditions across this vast... (read more)

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Art of the Senses: African Masterpieces from the William and Bertha Teel Collection
Art of the Senses: African Masterpieces from the William and Bertha Teel Collection
by Suzanne Prest Blier
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How the unique look of African art captured the imagination of artists such as Picasso and Stieglitz is well known. But how do art aficionados today see African objects? And how does our view compare to the way in which these objects were seen in Africa?... (read more)

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Art/Artifact: African Art in Antropology Collections
Art/Artifact: African Art in Antropology Collections
by Arthur Danto
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Focussing on 160 items, Art/Artifact examines shifting notions of art as opposed to everyday artifact.... (read more)

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Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of African Art
Selected Works from the Collection of the National Museum of African Art
by Roslyn Adele Walker
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The National Museum of African Art began as a private educational institution in 1964 and became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1979. This volume includes highlights from the museum's holdings of traditional African art from throughout the... (read more)

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African Forms: Art and Rituals
African Forms: Art and Rituals
by Laure Meyer
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Illuminates an aspect of African art that has largely been neglected by other books. African sculptures and art can be difficult to decipher because they are more than tokens of "art for art's sake." African art is often based on religious and... (read more)

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Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa
Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa
by Herbert M Cole
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For more than 6,000 years, a number of figurative images have repeatedly appeared in works of art across the continent of Africa. These images embody cultural ideals and values central to the lives of African peoples. Art historian Cole explores five... (read more)

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Royal Arts of Africa the Majesty of Form
Royal Arts of Africa the Majesty of Form
by Suzanne Prest Blier
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Egyptian Painting
Egyptian Painting
by T G H James
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Maroon Arts: Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora
Maroon Arts: Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora
by Sally Price
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Short History of African Art
Short History of African Art
by Werner Gillon
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Personal Affects
Personal Affects
by Sophie Perryer
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African Art Revised Edition
African Art Revised Edition
by Frank Willett
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-281) and index.... (read more)

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African art its background and traditions.
African art its background and traditions.
by R S Wassing
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-275) and index.... (read more)

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African Renaissance: Old Forms, New Images in Yoruba Art
African Renaissance: Old Forms, New Images in Yoruba Art
by Moyosore B Okediji
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African Renaissance: Old Forms, New images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic... (read more)

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Egyptian Treasures From the Egyptian Mus
Egyptian Treasures From the Egyptian Mus
by Francesc Tiradritti
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