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Contemporary African Art
Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Paperback - $32.95
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.
Art and Oracle : African Art and the Rituals of Divination
Alisa La Gamma
Paperback - $31.95
A complete aesthetic and social examination of fifty representative and diverse African articles created by different cultures to communicate with ancestors, spirits, and gods.
Genesis : Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture
Alisa La Gamma
Hardcover - $60.95
This stimulating volume examines the Ci Warn headdress as an icon of African sculpture and presents forty outstanding works from other major African traditions.
Afrikan Alphabets : The Story of Writing in Africa
Saki Mafundikwa
Paperback - $27.95
Afrikan alphabets have a long history, fantastic variety, and some continue to be in current use today. They are comparatively little known due largely to their suppression by colonial powers. This book sets the record straight. An entertaining and a ...
Egypt : 4000 Years of Art
Jaromir Malek
Hardcover - $62.95
A magnificent picture book presenting some 300 images of the finest art and architecture from ancient Egypt, with a concise introduction, informative captions, chronology, maps and reading list.
A Bird Dance Near Saturday City : Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade
Patrick McNaughton
Paperback - $43.95
Black Africa : Masks, Sculptures, Jewelry
Laure Meyer
Paperback - $37.95
Masks, pottery, bronze, ivory, gold, statues of ancestors, reliquaries, and jewelry all express the influence of myths on the daily life and inventive genius of more than 60 ethnic groups. This book covers each subject in turn, is magnificently illus ...
African Renaissance : Old Forms, New Images in Yoruba Art
Moyosore B. Okediji
Paperback - $41.95
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 he ...
