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  • Loot

    Britain and the Benin Bronzes (Revised and Updated Edition)

    A Prospect Best Book of 2021‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The TimesIn 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retali... ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Flash of the Spirit

    African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy

    This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World. ... Read more

    £5.99

  • Tutankhamen: and the discovery of his tomb by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter (1923)

    Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as Mr Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. Very little is known as yet of the king himself, but twelve months hence no doubt his mummy will give up its secrets and perhaps the story of his life will be revealed. But at the moment he is supposed to have ... Read more

    £1.51

  • Complete Works of Meta Davis Cumberbatch

    by Peter Maynard ...
    Mrs. Cumberbatch was a classical pianist, writer, composer, actress, and teacher who had been born in Trinidad and Tobago to Vincentian parents. She studied medicine in Britain before she transferred to the Royal Academy of Music to train as a concert pianist, and she played on the stages of Wigmore Hall, London, and Carnegie Hall, New York. This book is a remarkable collection by Mrs. Cumberbatch ... Read more

    £22.19

  • Great Awakening Meta Davis Cumberbatch, 'Mother of the Arts'

    by Peter Maynard ...
    This book tells a real story about a very remarkable woman, liberation, self-expression, self-determination, the growth of a national identity and culture. ... Read more

    £23.10

  • The Benin Plaques

    A 16th Century Imperial Monument

    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art, and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City, Nigeria, are little understood. The Benin Plaques, A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a detailed analysis of a corpus of nearly 850 bronze plaques that were installed in the court of the Benin ... Read more

    £42.99

  • 創作者的日常生活

    Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

    Translated by 莊安祺 ...
    Series series 聯經文庫
    完全透視偉大創作者的日常生活與時間分配!村上春樹的小說是怎麼寫出來的?畢卡索、梵谷的名畫是怎麼畫出來的?莫札特、貝多芬的交響樂是怎麼譜出來的?偉大的心靈究竟如何規劃時間,創作不懈?他們真的是天才嗎?還是具有與眾不同的人格特質?161位古往今來最偉大的哲學家、作家、作曲家、建築師和藝術家……在《創作者的日常生活》裡,作者柯瑞一一敘述他們的日常工作習慣,激勵你建立自己的創作儀式!柯瑞書寫過去四百年來161位偉大創作者每天怎麼分配時間,運用自己最大的能力,如何安排他們的作息,發揮創意和生產力。藉著撰寫這些人物日常生活平凡的細節,提供新鮮的角度,來看他們... ... Read more

    £5.99

  • African Fabrics

    Sewing Contemporary Fashion with Ethnic Flair

    Create style with a touch of the exoticExciting! Inspiring! African fabrics are vibrant, beautiful, and widely available - and they are perfect for contemporary clothing for men, women, and children and great for home decor. An excellent reference for sewers or anyone who is interested in fabrics, culture, and history, this guide will teach you where to buy fabrics, how to choose the right ones, ... Read more

    £6.99

  • The African Lookbook

    A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women

    Winner of the African Photobook of the Year AwardA Choice Outstanding Title of the YearA USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month"An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' PickA BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the YearAn unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs... ... Read more

    £15.99

  • The God Child

    'Engrossing and memorable' Ben Okri'Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented' Taiye Selasi'I read this novel very slowly. I didn't want to miss anything ... It is a rich, beautiful book and when I got to the end, I wanted to start again' Chibundu OnuzoMaya grows up in Germany knowing that her parents are different: from one another, and ... Read more

    £5.99

  • African Art Now

    Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century

    by Osei Bonsu ...
    Over the past two decades contemporary African art has taken its rightful place on the world stage. Today, African artists work outside the confines of limiting categories and outdated perceptions; they produce art that is as much a reflection of Africa's tumultuous past as it is a vision of its boundless future.Far-reaching in its scope, African Art Now celebrates the diversity and dynamism of ... Read more

    £3.99

  • All Shades Of Beauty In Colours

    There's is beauty everywhere, from the blooming roses to the insects that zither in mid air.Beauty lies within the eyes of a lover to the shape of her love.These poetic pieces have been picked like different flowers rolled up in a garland.Read what beauty lies and learn to appreciate and be grateful whereever you see beauty.Read in a quiet room,read aloud so the words can ferry you into wondwerful ... Read more

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  • Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art and cultural practices and did so decades before the ... Read more

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  • Travels in West Africa

    by Mary Kingsley ...
    "Travels in West Africa" is a book as vivid and unforgettable as the extraordinary author herself, Mary Kingsley.In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman- ... Read more

    £0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guinea

    Masks, Music and Minerals

    Guinea is rich, both materially and culturally, with the world's largest bauxite reserves, gold, diamonds and iron ore. It abounds in culture and traditions and has a remarkable, if often turbulent, history. Guinea is also exceptional in that it was the first French colony proudly to declare its independence, in 1958. Thereafter, the country suffered under the tyranny of Sekou Toure. Today, headed ... Read more

    £21.99

  • African Fashion, Global Style

    Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear

    African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of ... Read more

    £5.99

  • Ich!

    Selbstbildnisse in der Moderne

    Im Selbstporträt verkörpert sich programmatisch das Wesen der Moderne. Wie das christliche Altarbild im Mittelalter oder die Landschaft in der Romantik stellt das Selbstporträt das neue symbolhafte Thema in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts dar. Der renommierte Kunsthistoriker Uwe M. Schneede erzählt mit dieser ersten Überblicksdarstellung versiert und kenntnisreich eine Geschichte der modernen Kunst ... Read more

    £19.00

  • Humus

    Translated by Lynn E. Palermo ...
    Series series CARAF Books
    While researching in Nantes, a port city enriched by the slave trade, celebrated French novelist Fabienne Kanor came across a chilling report written in 1774 by the commander of a slave ship, Le Soleil. Captain Louis Mosnier recounted the loss of valuable "cargo" when fourteen African women escaped from the ship’s hold to leap overboard rather than face enslavement. Half of them drowned or were ... Read more

    £19.99

  • African Artists under Mission Patronage

    Focus on Tanzania

    The development, promotion, and status of African art and African artists in twentieth-century Africa is linked to several stakeholders and agencies, including Western Christian missions. Fadhili Safieli Mshana, in African Artists under Mission Patronage, surveys how mission patronage of African artists influenced twentieth-century African art, presenting specific case studies of Oye-Ekiti ... Read more

    £35.99

  • Narrating African FutureS

    In(ter)ventions and Agencies in African and African diasporic fiction

    This volume is dedicated to fictional negotiations of future, or rather futureS. After all, ‘future’ cannot but exist in a multitude of complementary and/or competing futures, all causally related to each other just as much as to their pasts and their respective memories. Within this cyclical and causal triad of past, present and future, futureS have been made and unmade, remembered and forgotten, ... Read more

    £35.99

  • South-Eastern Mediterranean Peoples Between 130,000 and 10,000 Years Ago

    Edited by Elena A. A. Garcea ...
    The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time period in North Africa and the Near East. Recent archaeological research in North Africa has meant this region now plays a decisive role in scientific debate. ... Read more

    £23.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moroccan Silk Designs in Full Color

    Edited by Lucien Vogel ...
    Series series Dover Pictorial Archive
    Gathered from a rare French portfolio, here are 59 exquisite, royalty-free motifs — mainly florals and foliates — incorporating Romanesque, Byzantine, Persian, Far Eastern, and traditional Moroccan motifs.Fès (Fez), one of the oldest and most important cities in Morocco, has long been a center for the practice of Islamic crafts, including brasswork, leatherwork, pottery, textiles, and embroidery. ... Read more

    £8.33 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary African Art

    Series series World of Art
    Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by any particular style, technique or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude towards art-making, incorporating and building upon the structures from which older, precolonial and colonial genres were made.In this revised and updated edition of ... Read more

    £10.99

  • The Activist Collector

    Lida Clanton Broner’s 1938 Journey from Newark to South Africa

    Published by the Newark Museum. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.“After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers.” So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895–1982), an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, New Jersey, upon her return from an extraordinary nine-month journey to South Africa in 1938. This epic trip ... Read more

    £23.99