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Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt
Marianne Ellis
Hardcover - $65.95
These extraordinary textiles span the Tulunid (868 A.D.), Fatimid (969-1171 A.D.), and Ayyubid (1172-1249 A.D.) periods, through the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria and go up to the Ottoman conquest (1517). Along with embroideries are intricate w ...
Early Art and Architecture of Africa
Peter Garlake
Paperback - $44.95
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 Afri ...
African Masks : The Barbier-Mueller Collection
Iris Hahner
Paperback - $32.95
Mysterious, graceful, and majestic, the African mask has long been the subject of great fascination for those interested in tribal civilizations and cultures. Now available in paperback, this beautiful volume presents nearly 250 of the finest African ...
In Senghor's Shadow : Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995
Elizabeth Harney
Paperback - $55.95
African Gold Ornament Designs
Diane V. Horn
Paperback - $11.95
Gold jewelry, regalia and ritual objects of North and West Africa.
Pieces of Time : An Anthology of Articles on Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture
Celia Winter Irving
Paperback - $71.95
This book brings together some seventy- five of the author's articles from The Herald and The Zimbabwe Mirror written over a period of five years, with photographs of some of the objects of art about which she is writing. Together the articles consti ...
Emergency
Alfredo Jaar
Hardcover - $49.95
The new Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and Le*n, opened in Spain in 2005 with an exhibition of Alfredo Jaar's Emergency, a dark pool from which a fiberglass model of the African continent is constantly, slowly rising and resubmerging. This re ...
African Art and the Colonial Encounter : Inventing a Global Commodity
Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Paperback - $48.95
Explores African art and artistic production in a volatile global marketplace