Museum Exhibitions - African Art
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Tanzania: Meisterwerke Afrikanischer Skulptur ,Sanaa za Mabingwa wa Kiafrika
Munich, Germany: Verlag Fred Jahn, 1994. Hardcover. Cream cloth, cardboard slipcase, 527 pp., many BW illus.; weighs nearly 8 lbs. Text is in German and Swahili. Issued in conjunction with several 1994 exhibitions featuring these figure sculptures from Tanzania. With illustrated essays by Marc L. Felix, Enrico Castelli, Georges Meurant..... More
African Art of the Dogon: The Myths of the Cliff Dwellers
New York: The Brooklyn Museum / The Viking Press, 1973. Softcover. Black illustrated wraps. 64 pp plus catalogue. BW and a few color plates. Catalogue lists 103 items for the exhibition on art and culture of the Dogon people of Mali. More
African Art Today: Four Major Artists
New York, NY: African-American Institute, 1974. Softcover. Black illus. stapled wraps; 13 pp.; 4 bw plates, 4 bw photos. Accompanied an exhibition featuring works by Skunder Boghossian, Valente Malangatana, Twins Seven Seven, and Amir I.M. Nour. More
Egyptian Art from the Amarna Period
Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2005. Hardcover. Black and color-illustrated boards with beige cloth spine and stamped orange lettering. 110 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from Oct. 15, 2005-Apr. 30, 2006. More
Gods, Spirits, Ancestors: African sculpture from private German collections
München (Munich), Germany: Panterra, 1992. Softcover. Black illustrated wraps. 247 pp. Many color plates. Exhibition at the Villa Stuck Munchen. Book contains introductory essays and annotated catalogue of 200 works. More
The Sculpture of Primitive Peoples
Fredericksburg, Virginia: Mary Washington College, 1966. Softcover. Copper/white stapled wraps with black illustration and lettering. 23 pp. with 36 bw illustrations. Catalogue from exh. of Oct.-Nov. 1966. Foreword by Kinsman and the catalogue of 177 objects listed by country, within continental area: Africa (11 countries), Oceania (15 locations), North America..... More
African Cosmos: Stellar Arts
New York / Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art / The Monacelli Press, 2012. Hardcover. Black & illutrated glossy boards, 368 pp., yellow and white illustrated end papers; color illustrated frontispiece; many color & BW illustrations. "A groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum..... More
Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. Softcover. Pale blue-grey wraps with color image and black lettering. French flaps. 128 pp. with 89 illus., including 77 in full color. Catalogue from the exhibition held from Nov. 2002 to April 2003. Arranged in two parts and with a title essay..... More
Kongo: Power and Majesty
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2015. First printing. Hardcover. Gray and color illus. paper baords with oatmeal cloth spine, illus. flyleaves, 308 pp., many color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2015-2016 exhibition of artwork from the Kongo region of the African continent. "The..... More
Guere-Wobe-Bete
Paris: Galerie Helene Kamer, 1978. Softcover. White & BW illus. wraps, unpaginated, 40 BW illus., one map. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1978 exhibition of these 38 tribal masks from the Guere, Wobe, and Bete people of Cote d'Ivoire. With an opening essay by Helene Leloup..... More
Traditional Costumery & Jewelry in Africa / Tradition Costumes & Jewelry of Egypt
Washington, DC: Sminthsonian Institution, n/d. Paperback. Two separate cream, tri-fold brochures with bw cover illus., black lettering and bw internal illus., both inside a folded bronze card "folio." The brochure about African art is written by Lifschitz, and the one on Egyptian art is written by Mehrez. The catalogue for..... More
Blondiau-Theatre Arts collection of primitive African art
New York: New Art Circle, 1927. Original Copy (Not a reprint or e-book). Softcover. Goldenrod stapled wraps with black image, lettering, and decoration on both covers. [24] with 32 bw images of various kinds, mostly illustrations of catalogue items. Catalogue from the exhibition held February 7 to March 5 at..... More
J'Aime Cheri Samba
Paris: Fondation Cartier Pour l'art Contemporain, 2004. Hardcover. Color-illustrated boards with red and fuschia lettering. 137 pp. Color illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from January 24 to May 2, 2004. Text in French and English. More
Wild Spirits, Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness
NY: Center for African Art, 1989. Softcover. Color illustrated wraps. 152 pp. 120 color plates. Exhibition catalogue. More
Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back
Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 2002. Hardcover. Aubergine cloth/boards; color-illus. dj with green spine; 302 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name held at the Seattle Art Museum; Presents twelve "case histories" of objects from Seattle Art Museum's collection based on personal memories..... More
Art Contemporani del Marroc a la Fundacio Joan Miro / Arte Contemporaneo de Marruecos en la Fundacion Joan Miro
Barcelona: Fundacio Joan Miro, 1980. Softcover. Red/white wraps with bw lettering; fold-out front cover with bw photos of each artist. Unpaginated with 18 pp., illus. throughout in color. Parallel text, Catalan/French in one half of book; Arabic text in other half, with the 23 artists' works and brief bios in..... More
Goldgewichte aus Ghana
Goldgewichte aus Ghana: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1968. Paperback. German and English language text. Gold wraps with black title lettering. 241 pages with illustrations, 73 leaves of illustrations. Map and drawings: E. Armgardt. More
Art that Heals: The Image as Medicine in Ethiopia
New York: The Museum for African Art / Prestel, 1997. Softcover. Black & gold & illus. wraps, 126 pp., 126 BW or color illus. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition. With 8 chapters of explanatory material, most written by Jacques Mercier, one chapter by Henri Maldiney. Offers more detail than..... More
Le roi Salomon et les maitres du regard: Art et medecine en Ethiopie
Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1992. Softcover. Black and color illus. wraps, 232 pp., color & BW illus. Text is in French. "King Solomon and the masters of the gaze: art and medicine in Ethiopia."| Issued in conjunction with a 1992-1993 exhibition of Ethiopian talismanic art. With six thematic and..... More
Contemporary African Art
London: Studio International, 1969. Softcover. Duotone illus. stapled wraps; 40 pp.; 21 plates, 17 bw, 4 color; 12 bw photos; 1 bw map. From an exhibition held at the Camden Arts Centre in 1969. More
Luba : to the sources of the Zaire
Paris: Musee Dapper, 1994. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, color illus. dust jacket. 253 pp. Profusely illustrated with many color plates and additional images. Text in English. The outcome of 20 years of research by Francois Neyt, who has set out to rigorously explain and analyze the historical and sociological factors..... More
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz / Hayward Gallery, 2005. Softcover. Black & color illus. wraps, 224 pp., color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2004-2006 series of international exhibitons of contemporary African art. With six thematic essays. The catalogue is divided into themes: Identity & History; Body & Soul; and City &..... More
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists
Bielefeld, Germany: Kerber Verlag / Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main / Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2014. Hardcover. Slate gray and color illus. boards, 376 pp., many color & BW illus. Issued in conjunction with several 2014-2015 exhibitions of artwork by African artists, interpreting the levels of..... More
Royal Art of Cameroon: The Art of the Bamenda-Tikar
Hanover, NH: Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, 1973. Softcover. White wraps, 76 pp., 81 BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1973 exhibition of these 61 art pieces from this specific region of Cameroon. Uncommon. More