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African Art (sub-Saharan)
All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.
South Africa: Artists, Prints, Community: Twenty-five Years at the Caversham Press.
Exh. cat.
Boston and Balgowan, South Africa:
Boston University School of Visual Arts and Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers,
2011.
100 pp.; 59 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(0977720136)
Barson, Tanya, and Peter Gorschluter, eds.
Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic.
Exh. cat.
Liverpool, England:
Tate Liverpool,
2010.
208 pp.; 100 color ills.
Paper
$32.50
(9781854379238)
Bassani, Ezio, ed.
Arts of Africa: 7000 Years of African Art.
Exh. cat.
Milan:
Skira,
2004.
409 pp.; many color ills.
$65.00
(8876242848)
Basualdo, Carlos.
William Kentridge: Tapestries.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2008.
120 pp.; 127 color ills.; 36 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780300126860)
Bedford, Emma, ed.
A Decade of Democracy: South African Art 1994–2004.
Exh. cat.
Cape Town, SA:
Double Storey Books,
2010.
160 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
ZAR 285.00
(9781919930503)
Berzock, Kathleen Bickford.
For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection.
New Haven and London:
Yale University Press,
2005.
204 pp.; 164 color ills.; 23 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300111491)
Berzock, Kathleen Bickford, and Christa Clarke.
Representing Africa in American Art Museums.
Seattle:
University of Washington,
2011.
312 pp.; Many b/w ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9780295989617)
Bickford Berzock, Kathleen.
Benin: Royal Arts of a West African Kingdom.
Exh. cat.
Chicago:
Art Institute of Chicago,
2008.
36 pp.; 34 color ills.
Paper
$9.95
(9780300136777)
Binder, Lisa M., ed.
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Museum for African Art,
2010.
170 pp.; 115 color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780945802563)
Brielmaier, Isolde, and Ed Marquand.
Hector Acebes: Portraits in Africa, 1948-1953.
Marquand Books,
2003.
144 pp.; 90 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(0295984139)
Clarke, John R.
Roman Life: 100 B.C. to A.D. 200.
Harry N. Abrams,
2007.
176 pp.; 120 color ills.
Cloth and CD-ROM
$35.00
(9780810993396)
Collins, Lisa Gail.
The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past.
Piscataway, NJ:
Rutgers University Press,
2001.
224 pp.; 0 color ills.; 60 b/w ills.
Paper
$26.00
(0813530210)
Cossa, Egidio, and Guido Schlinkert.
IbridAAfrica.
Exh. cat.
Rome:
Gangemi Editore,
2006.
144 pp.; Many color ills.
Paper
$20.00
(9788849202687)
Crouch, Dora P., and June G. Johnson.
Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania.
Oxford University Press,
2000.
433 pp.; 200+ b/w ills.
Paper
(0195088913)
Day, Gail.
Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory.
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts.
New York:
Columbia University Press,
2011.
320 pp.; 15 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780231149389)
de Jong, Ferdinand.
Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal.
Bloomington, Indianapolis, and Indianapolis:
Indiana University Press,
2008.
256 pp.; 35 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780253351722)
Doris, David T.
Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and the Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria.
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2011.
400 pp.; 77 color ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780295990736)
Drewal, Henry John, ed.
Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
Fowler Museum at UCLA,
2008.
228 pp.; 180 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(978097487295)
Drewal, Henry John, ed.
Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora.
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press,
2008.
708 pp.; 103 color ills.; 26 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780253351562)
Enwezor, Okwui, ed.
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994.
Munich:
Prestel,
2000.
496 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(3791325027)
Fletcher, Arcadia, ed.
Art of Ethiopia.
Intro. C. Griffith Mann.
Sam Fogg Publications,
2005.
128 pp.; 108 color ills.
Paper
(0954901460)
Gillow, John.
Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa.
University of Washington Press in association with British Museum Press,
2000.
88 pp.; 100+ color ills.
Paper
$19.95
(0295981385)
Giuntini, Christine, and Alissa LaGamma.
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End.
Exh. cat.
New York and New Haven:
Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,
2008.
72 pp.; 36 color ills.
Paper
$19.95
(9780300149623)
Glassie, Henry.
Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America.
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press,
2010.
488 pp.; 185 color ills.; 11 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780253354396)
Gott, Suzanne, and Kristyne Loughran, eds.
Contemporary African Fashion.
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press,
2011.
248 pp.; 71 color ills.
Paper
$27.95
(9780253222565)
Grossman, Wendy A.
Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens.
Exh. cat.
Washington, DC:
International Arts & Artists,
2009.
200 pp.; 282 b/w ills.
Paper
$39.95
(9780816670178)
Gumpert, Lynn, ed.
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Grey Art Gallery, New York University,
2009.
112 pp.; 48 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780615220833)
Hahner-Herzog, Iris, Maria Kecskesi, and László Vajda.
African Masks : From the Barbier-Mueller Collection.
New York and Munich:
Prestel,
2007.
248 pp.; 100 color ills.; 130 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(3791338072)
Hamilton, Douglas, and Robert J. Blyth, eds.
Representing Slavery: Art, Artefacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum.
London:
Lund Humphries in association with The National Maritime Museum,
2007.
320 pp.; 120 color ills.; 76 b/w ills.
Cloth
$100.00
(9780853319665)
Haney, Erin.
Photography and Africa.
London:
Reaktion Books,
2010.
160 pp.; 40 color ills.; 80 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9781861893826)
Haour, A., K. Manning, N. Arazi, O. Gosselain, S. Gueye, D. Keita, A. Livingstone Smith, K. MacDonald, A. Mayor, S. McIntosh, and R. Vernet, eds.
African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present: Techniques, Identification, and Distribution.
Oakville, CT:
David Brown Book Company,
2010.
196 pp.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$50.00
(9781842179680)
Harris, Michael D., and Moyo Okediji.
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa.
University of Washington Press,
1999.
80 pp.; 24 color ills.; 24 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(029597933X)
Hecker, Judith B.
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now: Prints from The Museum of Modern Art.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Museum of Modern Art,
2011.
96 pp.; 72 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780870707568)
Homberger, Lorenz, ed.
Cameroon: Art and Kings.
Zurich:
Museum Rietberg,
2008.
256 pp.; 193 color ills.; 107 b/w ills.
Paper
$60.00
(9783907077638)
Homberger, Lorenz.
Cameroon - Art and Kings.
Exh. cat.
Zurich:
Museum Reitberg,
2008.
256 pp.; 193 color ills.; 107 b/w ills.
Paper
$60.00
(9783907077368)
Imperato, Pascal James, Leonard Kahan, and Donna Page, eds.
Surfaces: Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications on African Sculpture.
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press,
2009.
524 pp.; 122 color ills.; 15 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780253352514)
Jewsiewicki, Bogumil.
The Beautiful Time: Photography by Sammy Baloji.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Museum for African Art,
2010.
48 pp.; 31 color ills.
Paper
$22.00
(9780945802556)
Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield.
African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity.
Bloomington, IN and Indianapolis, IN:
Indiana University Press,
2008.
408 pp.; 16 color ills.; 63 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.95
(9780253219220)
Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield.
Contemporary African Art.
London:
Thames and Hudson,
1999.
224 pp.; 74 color ills.; 96 b/w ills.
Paper
$14.95
(0500203288)
Kusimba, Chapurukha M., J. Clair Odland, and Bennet Bronson, eds.
Unwrapping the Textile Traditions of Madagascar.
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History in association with The Field Museum,
2004.
196 pp.; 115 color ills.; 41 b/w ills.
Paper
$40.00
(0930741951)
LaGamma, Alisa.
Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams,
1999.
80 pp.; 50 color ills.; 5 b/w ills.
$22.50
(0870999338)
LaGamma, Alisa, ed.
Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2007.
368 pp.; 160 color ills.; 78 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300124095)
LaGamma, Alisa.
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures.
Exh. cat.
New York:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2011.
312 pp.; 232 color ills.; 70 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780300175844)
Liebenberg, John, and Patricia Hayes.
Bush of Ghosts: Life and War in Namibia 1986–90.
Cape Town, SA:
Umuzi,
2010.
many b/w ills.
ZAR 270.00
(9781415201008)
Lyons, Robert, and Scott Straus.
Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide.
Zone Books,
2005.
185 pp.; 78 b/w ills.
Cloth
(1890951633)
Mann, Griffith C.
Art of Ethiopia.
Sam Fogg Publications in association with Paul Holberton Publishing,
2005.
128 pp.; 108 color ills.
Paper
(0954901460)
Maurer, Evan M., and Niangi Batulukisi.
Spirits Embodied: Art of the Congo; Selections from the Helmut F. Stern Collection.
Minneapolis:
Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with University of Minnesota Press,
1998.
154 pp.; 76 color ills.; 79 b/w ills.
Paper
$34.95
(0816636559)
McNaughton, Patrick R.
A Bird Dance near Saturday City: Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade.
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press,
2008.
328 pp.; 24 color ills.; 2 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780253219848)
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed.
Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews.
Routledge,
1999.
264 pp.; some b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(0415166705)
Mullen Kreamer, Christine.
African Visions: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection.
Exh. cat.
Washington, D.C. and New York:
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution in association with Prestel,
2007.
240 pp.; 180 color ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(3791338021)
Murphy, Maureen.
De l’imaginaire au musée: Les arts d’Afrique à Paris et à New York (1931–2006).
Dijon:
Les presses du réel,
2010.
400 pp.; 54 b/w ills.
Paper
€26.00
(9782840662952)
Nelson, Steven.
From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
304 pp.; 8 color ills.; 101 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780226571836)
Nuttall, Sarah, ed.
Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics.
Durham, N.C. and The Hague:
Duke University Press in association with Prince Claus Fund,
2007.
416 pp.; 112 color ills.; 14 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.95
(9780822339182)
Onians, John, ed.
The Art Atlas.
New York:
Abbeville Press,
2008.
352 pp.; 600 color ills.
Cloth and CD
$55.00
(9780789209610)
Peffer, John.
Art and the End of Apartheid.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
352 pp.; 8 color ills.; 83 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780816650026)
Plankensteiner, Barbara, ed.
Benin: Kings and Rituals. Court Arts from Nigeria.
Exh. cat.
Vienna:
Snoeck,
2007.
536 pp.; 500 color ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9789053496268)
Princeton University Art Museum.
Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections.
Princeton and New Haven:
Princeton University Art Museum and Yale University Press,
2008.
384 pp.; 436 color ills.; 6 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780300122107)
Rosenthal, Mark, ed.
William Kentridge: Five Themes.
Exh. cat.
San Francisco, West Palm Beach, and New Haven:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Norton Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,
2009.
264 pp.; 297 color ills.
Cloth and DVD
$50.00
(9780300150483)
Ross, Doran H.
Gold of the Akan from the Glassell Collection.
Exh. cat.
Houston:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
2002.
296 pp.; 385 color ills.; 10 b/w ills.
Cloth
$79.00
(0890901155)
Roy, Christopher D.
Kilengi: African Art from the Bareiss Family Collection.
University of Washington Press,
1998.
420 pp.; 248 color ills.; 216 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(0295978228)
Sharpe, Christina.
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects.
Perverse Modernities series.
Durham, NC:
Duke University Press,
2010.
254 pp.
Paper
$22.95
(9780822346098)
Sheriff, Abdul, Paul Voogt, and Mubiana Luhila.
The Zanzibar House of Wonders Museum: Self Reliance and Partnership; A Case Study in Culture and Development.
KIT Publishers,
2005.
80 pp.; few color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9068324330)
Siegmann, William C.
African Art: A Century at the Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn:
Brooklyn Museum in association with DelMonico Books,
2010.
296 pp.; Many color ills.
Paper
$49.95
(9780872731639)
Sims, Lowery Stokes, ed.
The Global Africa Project.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Museum of Arts and Design and Prestel Publishing,
2010.
224 pp.; 200 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9783791350844)
Spring, Chris.
African Art in Detail.
Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press,
2010.
144 pp.; 150 color ills.
Cloth
$22.95
(9780674036222)
Stepan, Peter.
Picasso's Collection of African and Oceanic Art: Masters of Metamorphosis.
Munich:
Prestel,
2005.
152 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(3791336916)
Subiros, Pep, ed.
Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope).
Exh. cat.
New York:
Musuem for African Art,
2011.
192 pp.; 103 color ills.; 74 b/w ills.
Paper
$45.00
(9780945802570)
Thompson, Barbara, ed.
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body.
Exh. cat.
Hanover, N.H. and Seattle:
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in association with University of Washington Press,
2008.
376 pp.; 212 color ills.; 38 b/w ills.
Paper
$50.00
(9780295987712)
van Cutsem-Vanderstraete, Anne.
Powerful Headdresses: Africa and Asia.
Milan:
5 Continents Editions,
2010.
192 pp.
Hardback
$85.00
(9788874395514)
Van Dyke, Kristina, ed.
African Art from The Menil Collection.
Houston:
The Menil Collection,
2008.
240 pp.; 150 color ills.; 29 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300123760)
Visonà, Monica Blackmun, Robin Poyner, Herbert M. Cole, Michael D. Harris, Rowland Abiodun, and Suzanne Preston Blier.
A History of Art in Africa.
Upper Saddle River, N.J.:
Pearson Prentice Hall in association with Harry N. Abrams,
2000.
544 pp.; 129 color ills.; 600 b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(0810934485)
Walker, Roslyn Adele, ed.
The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Dallas:
Dallas Museum of Art,
2010.
321 pp.; 222 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300138955)
Werness, Hope B.
Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, & Culture in Africa, Oceana, & Native North America.
Continuum,
1999.
500 pp.
Cloth
$50.00
(0826411568)
Wiehager, Renate, ed.
Ampersand: A Dialogue Between Contemporary Art from South Africa and the Daimler Art Collection.
Exh. cat.
Munich:
Hirmer Verlag,
2011.
128 pp.; 164 color ills.; 23 b/w ills.
Paper
$34.95
(9783777428017)
Willett, Frank.
The Art of Life: A Descriptive Catalogue and Database.
Glasgow:
The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery,
CD-ROM
Williamson, Sue.
Resistance Art in South Africa.
Cape Town:
Double Storey Books,
2011.
160 pp.; Many color ills.
Paper
$35.82
(9781919930695)