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Ethiopian Devotions: Paintings, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
$40.00 Add to cartAdmire stunning Christian imagery of Ethiopian Orthodox Church art in this lavishly illustrated volume with informative essays and more than 100 images
Ethiopia is one of the world’s oldest Christian- Author: Heldman, Marilyn E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1588348075
- Language: English
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New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations
$60.00 Add to cartAn exploration of contemporary African masquerade that reveals its cultural contexts, artistic innovations, and intersection with museum collection practices
By placing masquerade at the forefront of- Author: Maples, Amanda M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279957
- Language: English
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Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
$65.00 Add to cartAn expansive look at more than a century of Pan-Africanist art and the ways it embodies the movement’s principles and global ambitions
Since the term Pan-Africanism was coined around 1900, the moveme- Author: Byrd, Antawan I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278993
- Language: English
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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent
$34.95 Read moreThe 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… [more below]
- Author: Gillow, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0500292213
- Language: English
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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
$29.95 Read moreA 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 wor- Author: Savoy, Bénédicte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234736
- Language: English
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Inadan, the Mastery of Tuareg Artisans: Contemporary and Traditional Work in Metal, Leather, and Wood
$69.99 Read moreFor metalworkers, jewelry makers, leather crafters, and anyone interested in learning the crafting techniques of the Indigenous peoples of the Sahara. This book is a rare look at the artisans of the T… [more below]
- Author: Cheminée, Matthieu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366084
- Language: English
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Words: A Collation
$30.00 Read moreAn exploration of phrases and excerpts that inspire a major contemporary artist.
Over the past several years, renowned South African artist William Kentridge has made a collection of particular phras- Series: Africa List
- Author: Kentridge, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092173
- Language: English
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Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display: Exhibition Histories 13
$35.00 Read moreA critical anthology on the mediation of Blackness through pivotal historical art exhibitions
The 13th volume of Afterall Books’ Exhibition Histories series explores Black identity through key historic
- Author: Adusei-Poku, Nana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 3753302384
- Language: English
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African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude
$16.99 Read moreThis critically acclaimed study offers a distinct, incisive look at how Senegalese philosopher Senghor sees in African art the most acute expression of Bergson’s philosophy.
L駮pold S馘ar Senghor (1906-- Author: Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 163542321X
- Language: English
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Annancy Stories by Pamela Colman Smith
$13.50 Add to cartA collection of Jamaican folktales about Annancy the Spider as told by famous Tarot artist Pamela C. Smith with a foreward by the publisher.
- Author: Smith, Pamela C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0976961229
- Language: English
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Afro-Atlantic Histories
$49.95 Add to cartA colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries
Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum
Afro-Atlantic Histories brings toge- Author: Pedrosa, Adriano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1636810020
- Language: English
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African Art
$29.95 Add to cartThe art of the Fang, the BaTeke, the BaKota, and other African peoples is extraordinarily vigorous and shows a brilliant sense of form. The substantial aesthetic impact that their works have had on th… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Willett, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: February 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0500203644
- Language: English
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African Artists: From 1882 to Now
$69.95 Add to cartAs featured in the New York Times, ARTnews, Colossal, Metropolis and New York Magazine’s The Strategist
A groundbreaking A-Z survey of the work of over 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based
- Author: Phaidon Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 183866243X
- Language: English
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African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century
$55.00 Add to cartThis deluxe hardcover survey, featuring profiles of 50 artists on the rise, is the definitive guide to contemporary African art.
With African artists attracting sizable audience numbers to museums, s- Author: Bonsu, Osei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1797217208
- Language: English
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When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
$65.00 Add to cartPublished to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, CapeTown, When We See Us presents a comprehensive exploration of Black representation through portraiture and figuration, celebrating Black su
- Author: Kouoh, Koyo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0500025886
- Language: English
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Africa and Byzantium
$65.00 Read moreThe first exploration of the artistic and cultural intersections of the African continent and the Byzantine world
Medieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but les- Author: Myers Achi, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1588397718
- Language: English
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The History of African Art (Art Essentials)
$18.95 Add to cartThis indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 150,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the resti
- Series: Art Essentials #19
- Author: Blier, Suzanne Preston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0500296251
- Language: English
