Allison Moore examines the tensions between the local and the global in the art photography movement that blossomed in Bamako, Mali, in the 1990s, showing contemporary Malian photography to be a rich example of Western notions of art meeting traditional cultural precepts to forge new artistic forms, practices, and communities.
A History in Documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archives
Edited by Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. Newman
Foreword by Guido Gryseels and Dominique Allard
Price: £68.00
ISBN: 9780821423660
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Pub Date: 22nd June 2020
Format: Hardcover
In 1871, journalist Henry M. Stanley embarked on a search for the famous explorer Dr. David Livingstone. In 1872, Stanley returned with the story of how he had found Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika, restored his health, and resupplied his expedition. This collection of unpublished documents reveals how Stanley shaped the...
Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa. The authors take a three-pronged approach....
Healing from Genocide in Rwanda demonstrates the power of art in the service of healing, and is a testimony to responsive community process in a highly sensitive environment. The...
Translated by Drew S. Burk and Sarah Jones-Boardman
Price: £19.99
ISBN: 9781517906917
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Pub Date: 14th April 2020
Format: Paperback
A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century In the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and...
Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa
by Jennifer Bajorek
Price: £22.99
ISBN: 9781478003922
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Pub Date: 7th February 2020
Format: Paperback
Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial politics in Francophone west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960, showing how photography both reflected and actively contributed to social and political change.
Eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers a previously unknown history of the influences and creative process of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings.
Edited by Allen F. Roberts, Tom Joyce and Marla C. Berns
Price: £62.00
ISBN: 9780990762669
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Pub Date: 3rd December 2019
Format: Hardcover
Striking Iron combines interdisciplinary scholarship with vivid illustrations to offer the most comprehensive treatment of the blacksmith’s art in sub-Saharan Africa to date. For more than...
Ambivalent makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories.
