| FORTHCOMING TITLES & RECENT RELEASES Living with Ghosts: A Reader
Edited with text and interview by KJ Abudu. Interview by Bouchra Khalili. Featuring republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and newly commissioned essays by some of today’s leading artists and writers, Living with Ghosts: A Reader explores the ways that Africa’s unresolved >>more
Pace Publishing
ISBN 9781948701594
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 37 color.
Pub Date: 04/04/2023 In stock
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|  Resist!
Edited by Ricardo Márquez García, Nanette Snoep, Vera Marušic, Lydia Hauth. Text by Nanette Snoep, Vera Marušic, Lydia Hauth. This volume illuminates 500 years of anticolonial resistance in the Global South, examining colonial violence and oppression and its ongoing repercussions, and paying homage to the people who resisted it in various ways and whose >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753302713
US $39.95 CAN $55.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 200 pgs / 450 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/06/2024 In stock
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|  Style Congo: Heritage & Heresy
Edited by Sammy Baloji, Silvia Franceschini, Nikolaus Hirsch, Estelle Lecaille. Text by Sandrine Colard, Johan Lagae, Debora Silverman, Traumnovelle, Rolando Vázquez Melken. “Style Congo” reflected a widespread fascination with “exotic” art and architecture while downplaying King Leopold II’s exploitation of the region. Based on historical materials and contemporary interventions, this book chronicles the representation of the Congo >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959057752
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Flexi, 8.5 x 11 in. / 196 pgs / 25 color / 118 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/16/2024 In stock
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|  The New African Portraiture: Shariat Collections
Edited by Florian Steininger. Text by Myrah Brown Green, Ekow Eshun, Claire di Felice, Philippe Godin, Alana Voldman. This catalog showcases over 20 figurative artists from the African continent and diaspora. While the artists assembled represent a diverse array of styles, they all explore complex questions of identity, aesthetics and art history. Amoako >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753303062
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Hbk, 10.25 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 73 color.
Pub Date: 03/25/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Where Is Africa
Edited with text by Emanuel Admassu, Anita N. Bateman. Foreword by Mabel O. Wilson. Designed by NMutiti Studio. In 2017, curator and art historian Anita N. Bateman and architect and professor Emanuel Admassu initiated research on the traditional positioning and mispositioning of the arts across the African continent. Where Is Africa has been >>more
CARA
ISBN 9781954939011
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Pbk, 6 x 10 in. / 346 pgs / 107 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/02/2024 In stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  The Kuba of the Democratic Republic of Congo are recognized throughout the world for the beauty and inventiveness of their figure sculptures, decorative arts and surface design traditions. However, only a few scholarly articles have >>more
Lucia|Marquand
ISBN 9781646570232
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Hbk, 9.25 x 10.5 in. / 240 pgs / 169 color.
Pub Date: 11/23/2021 In stock
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|  An illustrated study of traditional and figurative art of Africa that reflects the continent’s rich artistic and cultural heritage. African Art explores the continent’s marvelous artistic achievements which share its roots with humanities origins. Sculpture >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857208695
US $70.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 12 in. / 380 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2012 In stock
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|  Afro-Atlantic Histories
Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo. Text by Ayrson Heráclito, Deborah Willis, Hélio Menezes, Kanitra Fletcher, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Vivian Crockett. Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum
Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that >>more
DelMonico Books/Museu de Arte de Săo Paulo
ISBN 9781636810027
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Hbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 400 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  Ancient Nubia was home to a series of civilizations between the sixth millennium BCE and 350 CE that produced towering monuments, including more pyramids than in neighboring Egypt, and artifacts of enduring beauty and significance. >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468539
US $22.50 CAN $31.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 168 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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|  Bodys Isek Kingelez
Edited with text by Sarah Suzuki. Text by David Adjaye, Chika Okeke-Agulu, et al. The sculptures of Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948–2015) are imagined architectural propositions and improbable structures for a fairytale urban landscape. Comprised of paper, commercial packaging and the stuff of everyday life, his “extreme maquettes” transform these >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450547
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  Connecting Afro Futures
Edited with text by Claudia Banz, Cornelia Lund, Beatrace Angut Oola. Text by Tamar Clarke-Brown, Isaac Kariuki, D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem, Nadine Hounkpatin, Jaqee, Mwangi Hutter, Simon Njami, Mazzi Odu, Noliwe Rooks, Moses Serubiri, Cheikha Sigil, Jacqueline Shaw, Ken Aicha Sy, et al. Gathering artists and designers from Uganda, Benin and Senegal, Connecting Afro Futures explores the relational nuances between hair, fashion and African identity.
From ornate wig sculptures to a videographic survey of Afrofuturism to clothing made from >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735606150
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Pbk, 8.25 x 9.75 in. / 128 pgs / 37 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 Out of stock
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|  Digital Imaginaries
Edited with text by Oulimata Gueye, Julien McHardy, Richard Rottenburg, Philipp Ziegler. Text by Bethlehem Anteneh, Younes Baba-Ali, et al. This publication chronicles an exhibition and research project on the effects of digitization and technology on African societies and their worldwide perception, over the course of two years in Dakar, Johannesburg and Karlsruhe. >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735606570
US $50.00 CAN $70.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/10/2021 In stock
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|  Emeka Ogboh: Lagos Soundscapes
Edited with text by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi. Text by Emeka Ogboh, Karen Milbourne. Edited by MoMA curator Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, this first substantial monograph on Emeka Ogboh (born 1977)—a celebrated Nigerian sound and installation artist based in Berlin—is a compendium of sound works, video, installation and photographs focused >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735605306
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 216 pgs / 164 color / 85 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 Out of stock
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|  Europe in the Renaissance: Metamorphoses 1400–1600
Text by Bernard Aikema, Peter Burke, et al. The Renaissance experienced some of the most important advances in human history: the invention of the printing press using movable letters, the West's discovery of a continent and the formulation of a new view of >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775740739
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 320 pgs / 336 color.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 Out of stock
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|  Festac ´77: 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
Text by Alioune Diop, Barkley Hendricks, Audre Lorde, Dominique Malaquais, Marilyn Nance, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Betye Saar, Wole Soyinka. Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. The >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960984498
US $49.95 CAN $69.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 352 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 12/23/2019 Out of stock
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|  Premodern African art alongside contemporary art Group Spirit is an exhibition of works by contemporary artists alongside works of unknown African artists. Many of the contemporary works in Group Spirit use rough, non-artistic materials that achieve >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857233505
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Hbk, 8 x 12 in. / 120 pgs / 113 color.
Pub Date: 09/12/2017 In stock
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|  IncarNations: African Art as Philosophy
Edited by Kendall Geers. Text by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Marc Ghysels, Anna-Alix Koffi, Agnes Lacaille, Didier Mupaya Kapiten, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Jennifer Wilcox. Drawing on historical and contemporary art from Congolese art collector Sindika Dokolo’s collection, IncarNations looks at masks, images and historic objects from Africa and its diasporas. >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836642991
US $25.00 CAN $35.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/17/2020 Out of stock
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|  This volume looks at Lonnie Van Brummelen (born 1969) and Siebren de Haan’s (born 1966) participatory documentaries made in collaboration with the Dutch fishing community of Urk and with the autonomous African diasporic Saamaka and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775747059
US $46.00 CAN $63.50 FLAT40
Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 444 pgs / 45 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2022 In stock
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|  The African art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a portal into the life and politics of a large and complex continent with a wealth of history and culture. The highlighted works >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468645
US $22.50 CAN $29.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock
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|  Aisha in Wonderland presents the latest work by Senegal-based Italian multimedia artist Maimouna Guerresi (born 1951), which allegorically follows the titular Aisha, a veiled Senegalese woman played by an assortment of female family and friends, >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836642564
US $25.00 CAN $34.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 In stock
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|  Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty Bowl
By Gerald W.R. Ward. American patriot Paul Revere is wrapped in the swirling mixture of myth and poetry through which history often descends, but as a craftsman and artist, he left behind more tangible traces as well. In this >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468324
US $9.95 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 56 pgs / 23 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 In stock
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|  Robin Rhode: Memory Is the Weapon
Edited with text by Uta Ruhkamp. Foreword by Andreas Beitin. Text by Don Mattera, James Matthews, Robin Rhode, Gladys Thomas. South African artist Robin Rhode’s (born 1976) trademark material is the wall. Influenced by urban music culture, film, popular sports, youth culture and traditional South African storytelling, his works are created on public walls. Rhode’s >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775746052
US $62.00 CAN $88.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 224 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock
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|  Samuel Fosso: Autoportrait
Edited with text and interview by Okwui Enwezor. Foreword by Artur Walther, Jean-Marc Patras. Text by Quentin Bajac, Yves Chatap, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Terry Smith, Claire Staebler, James Thomas. A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick
Autoportrait is the first comprehensive survey of the multifaceted oeuvre of Nigerian photographer Samuel Fosso (born 1962). Since the mid-1970s, Fosso has focused on self-portraiture >>more
Steidl/The Walther Collection, New York
ISBN 9783958296121
US $85.00 CAN $120.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 11 in. / 188 pgs / 32 color / 47 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/11/2020 In stock
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|  Sanlé Sory: Volta Photo
Edited with text by Matthew S. Witkovsky. Text by Antawan Byrd, Florent Mazzoleni. The studio photographs of Sanlé Sory and his participation in the vibrant music scene in Bobo-Dioulasso give us a picture of a cosmopolitan city shaping its independent identity in the 1960s through to the ’80s, >>more
Steidl/The Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN 9783958294004
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 120 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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|  Teke: Ritual Figures
Edited by Henricus Simonis. Text by Gerd Korinthenberg. The ritual figures of the Central African Teke people embody the power of nature spirits and ancestors. This book documents the rich variety and unique formal properties of these figures. >>more
Walther Koenig
ISBN 9783753300573
US $75.00 CAN $103.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 120 pgs / 127 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2022 Out of stock
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|  The Journey: New Positions in African Photography
Edited with text by Simon Njami, Sean O’Toole. Text by Akinbode Akinbiyi, Lucienne Bestall, Nicola Brandt, Frédérique Chapuis, John Fleetwood, Emmanuel Iduma, Katrin Peters-Klaphake, Cara Snyman. A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2021
This volume presents the work of 17 contemporary African photographers, all of whom are alumni of the decade-long mentorship program in Johannesburg, South Africa, helmed >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735606822
US $69.95 CAN $97.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 342 pgs / 145 color / 56 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 Out of stock
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|  Thomas Sully: George Washington and The Passage of the Delaware
By Elliot Bostwick Davis. On the night of December 25, 1776, George Washington led his ragged Continental Army through a snowstorm across the Delaware River, on the way to a surprise attack in New Jersey that would turn the >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468331
US $9.95 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 64 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 In stock
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|  Specially trained Egyptian photographers were an integral part of the pioneering Harvard–MFA expedition during the first half of the 20th century. Over the course of some 40 years, their photographs documented the excavations with thousands >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468546
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.375 x 8.5 in. / 144 pgs / 80 duotone.
Pub Date: 06/19/2018 In stock
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|  Wild Beads of Africa
Edited by Billy Steinberg. Text by Jamey D. Allen. This is the first book dedicated to African powderglass beads, with over 180 photographs of gorgeous pieces from a collection assembled by songwriter Billy Steinberg (co-writer of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”).
Most of the pieces showcased >>more
Steinberg
ISBN 9780692907108
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 216 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock
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| Wild Beads of Africa
Edited by Billy Steinberg. Text by Jamey D. Allen. This is the first book dedicated to African powderglass beads, with over 180 photographs of gorgeous pieces from a collection assembled by songwriter Billy Steinberg (co-writer of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”).
Most of the pieces showcased >>more
Steinberg
ISBN 9780692907108
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 216 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT  Africa Remix
Edited by Jean-Hubert Martin. Essays by Salah Hassan, David Elliott, Mahmood Mamdani, Manthia Diawara, Jean Loup Amselle, Marie-Christine Eyen», and Charlotte Boudon. Africa Remix is one of the only comprehensive publications on young contemporary art of the last decade in and from Africa. It features more than 80 artists from nearly 30 countries, well representing the geographic >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775714723
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 240 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2005 Not available
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|  An Anthology Of African Art: The Twentieth Century
Edited by Jean Loup Pivin and N'Gone Fall. Essays by Francisco d'Almeida, Marie-Helene Boisdur de Toffol, Joelle Busca, Sabine Cornelis, Elsbeth Court, N'Gone Fall, Etienne Feau, Till Forster, Joseph Gazari Seini, Joanna Grabski, Sigrid Horsch-Albert, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, George Kyeyune, Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine, Marylin Martin, Elikia M'Bokolo, Adriano Mixinge, Simon Njami, Sylvester Ogbechie, Richard Pankhurst, Blaise Patrix, Thierry Payet, John Picton, Jean Loup Pivin, Sunanda K. Sanyal, Konjit Seyoum, Ousmane Sow Huchard, Yvonne Vera, Jean-Luc Vellut, Sue Williamson and Gaving Younge. The term "Modern African Art" is not an abuse of language. The 20th century has seen, but not properly documented, the birth, development, and maturation of contemporary art in sub-Saharan Africa, an art which was >>more
D.A.P./Editions Revue Noire
ISBN 9781891024382
US $80.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 408 pgs / 500 color / 51 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2002 Not available
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|  Art of the Senses
Text by Suzanne Preston Blier, Edmund Gaither, Michael Kan. 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 >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466597
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Clothbound, 9 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 04/02/2004 Not available
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|  Double Consciousness
Edited by Valerie Cassel Oliver. Essays by Franklin Sirmans and Valerie Cassel Oliver, Charles Gaines and Adrian Piper. Foreword by Marti Mayo. Double Consciousness explores the conceptual art practices of African-American artists over the past 35 years, using as its underpinning, the "reflexive" nature of art-making which emerged with the avant-garde of the late 1960s. The exhibition >>more
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
ISBN 9780936080925
US $24.95 CAN $27.50 TRADE
Paperback, 8.5 x 10 in. / 112 pgs
Pub Date: 04/15/2005 Not available
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|  New Identities: Contemporary Art From South Africa
Edited by Hans Günter Golinski and Sepp Hiekisch-Picard. Essays by Sello Duiker, David Koloane, Magdalena Krčner and Marilyn Martin. The era of Apartheid in South Africa came to an end with the first free elections in 1994. Since then, visual art has played an instrumental role in societal change--the quest for national identity is >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775714891
US $49.95 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 212 pgs / 117 color / 29 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Not available
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|  Personal Affects
Edited by Sophie Perryer. Essays by David Brodie, Okwui Enwezor, Laurie Ann Farrell, Churchill Madikida, Tracy Murinik and Liese van der Watt. Season South Africa is a major program of contemporary visual and performing arts that runs from September 2004 through January 2005. Launched by the Museum for African Art and The Cathedral of St. John the >>more
Museum for African Art/Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
ISBN 9780945802426
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 06/15/2004 Not available
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|  Personal Affects: Volume Ii
Edited by Sophie Perryer. Essay by Steven Nelson. This 128-page supplement to the Personal Affects catalogue features photographs and an essay documenting the exhibition and performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Museum for African Art, New York. >>more
Museum for African Art/Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
ISBN 9780945802440
US $20.00 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.25 x 10.5 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Not available
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|  The African Sniper Reader
Edited by Fernando Alvim, Heike Munder, Ulf Wuggenig, Essays by Oladélé Bamboyé, Mounir Fatmi, Kendell Geers, Loulou Cherinet, Simon Njami and Olu Oguibe. This anthology emerged from a series of solo exhibitions by Kendell Geers, Olu Oguibe, Oldadélé Bamgboyé, Mounir Fatmi and Loulou Cherinet--all artists with connections to Africa and living abroad. Reaching beyond the dialectic of difference >>more
JRP|Ringier/Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
ISBN 9783905701227
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available
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|  Unpacking Europe
Edited by Iftikhar Dadi and Salah Hassan. Artists include: Willem Boshoff, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Heri Dono, Jimmie Durham, Coco Fusco, Ni Haifeng, Ken Lum, Keith Piper, Yinka Shonibare. How European is Europe? In Rotterdam, the 2001 Cultural Capital of Europe, curator Salah Hassan posed this question to 18 international artists. Yinka Shonibare, Jimmie Durham, Willem Boshoff, Heri Dono, Coco Fusco, Ni Haifeng, Ken >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056622336
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 224 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/02/2002 Not available
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|  Yinka Shonibare: Double Dutch
Edited by Jaap Guldemond and Gabriele Mackert. Essays by Peter Bailey, Manthia Diawara, Achille Mbembe, Angela McRobbie, Onyema Offoedu-Okeke and John Picton. Interview with Jaap Guldemond and Gabriele Mackert. From the dandy with black skin to astronauts and aliens dressed in typical African colors and materials, Yinka Shonibare addresses issues of cultural identity in his artistic research with irony. The Nigerian-British artist seeks provocative >>more
nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen/Kunsthalle Wien
ISBN 9789056623678
US $39.95 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 75 color / 25 b&w
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Not available
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