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Myrlande Constant
The Work of Radiance
Myrlande Constant: The Work of Radiance is the first museum retrospective of a contemporary Haitian female artist who has been creating groundbreaking work for thirty years. Constant's panels build on the drapo Vodou tradition, depicting...
ISBN: 9780998044514
more detailsAboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End
Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End presents the work of contemporary Australian textile artists working at five Aboriginal-owned art centers in the Northern Territory: Tiwi Design, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Injalak Arts and...
ISBN: 9780998044507
more detailsSummoning the Ancestors
Southern Nigerian Bronzes
Summoning the Ancestors explores a collection of 72 ofo (small ritual objects) and 74 bells produced in southern Nigeria by Igala, Igbo, Edo, Yorùbá, and other neighboring peoples, which was gifted to the Fowler Museum...
ISBN: 9780990762683
more detailsDressed with Distinction
Garments from Ottoman Syria
For hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syrian centers of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles for the royal courts, worldly merchants, and elite Bedouin families of the Ottoman Empire. City dwellers...
ISBN: 9780990762690
more detailsMeleko Mokgosi
Bread, Butter, and Power
Botswana-born Meleko Mokgosi is an emerging contemporary artist whose large-scale figurative paintings are garnering growing accolades and attention worldwide. In all his work, Mokgosi emphasizes narrative storytelling. This approach inspires the viewer to think deeply...
ISBN: 9780990762676
more detailsStriking Iron
The Art of African Blacksmiths
For more than two millennia, African blacksmiths have transformed one of Earth’s most basic natural resources into objects of life-changing utility, empowerment, prestige, spiritual potency, and astonishing artistry—shaping African cultures in the most fundamental ways....
ISBN: 9780990762669
more detailsAxé Bahia
The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis
Axé Bahia examines the unique cultural role played by Salvador, the coastal capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. An internationally renowned center of Afro-Brazilian culture, Salvador has been a vibrant and important hub of...
ISBN: 9780990762652
more detailsAfrican-Print Fashion Now!
A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
African-Print Fashion Now! introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international...
ISBN: 9780990762638
more detailsEnduring Splendor
Jewelry of India's Thar Desert
Enduring Splendor focuses on the rich and diverse silver jewelry traditions of India’s Thar Desert region, stretching across the western states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. These traditions are considered against the background of the five-thousand-year...
ISBN: 9780990762645
more detailsWorld Share
Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou
World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou gives us a large-scale immersive environment that combines the artist's sculpture, drawings, and poetry with Fowler artworks. Assembled from a stunning diversity of materials and found objects, Tayou’s...
ISBN: 9780990762607
more detailsJose Montoya's Abundant Harvest
Works on Paper / Works on Life
Chicano activist, poet, artist, intellectual, professor, and musician, José Montoya (1932–2013) was a veritable Renaissance man. Montoya often found inspiration in the verdant fields of the San Joaquin Valley where his family arrived from their...
ISBN: 9780990762621
more detailsTextiles of Timor, Island in the Woven Sea
Timor has been a divided island at least since the seventeenth century when Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires competed for its control. Despite this fragmentation, the weaving of cloth has remained intimately linked to the...
ISBN: 9780984755080
more detailsLight and Shadows
The Story of Iranian Jews
Light and Shadows highlights the 2,700-year history of Jews in Iran. It reveals centuries of oppression, fascinating cultural borrowings, and great artistic achievements. The story is told through rare archaeological artifacts, illuminated manuscripts, beautiful ritual...
ISBN: 9780984755028
more detailsMaking Strange
Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram
This volume juxtaposes for the first time two striking bodies of work by Delhi-based and internationally recognized contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram. Gagawaka, the first project, consists of twenty-seven sculptural garments made from a bizarre assortment...
ISBN: 9780984755097
more detailsSinful Saints and Saintly Sinners at the Margins of the Americas
The margins of the Americas―borders that are at once physical and societal―engender sacred figures who walk the fine line between sinfulness and sanctity. In worship and artistic representation alike, these entities reflect and impact the...
ISBN: 9780984755073
more detailsThe Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth
Ancient Threads / New Directions
In this beautifully illustrated book, textile expert Elena Phipps examines the ancient Peruvian process of weaving textiles with four finished selvages, or edges. Without cutting a thread, master Peruvian weavers wove each textile to the...
ISBN: 9780984755059
more detailsCentral Nigeria Unmasked
Arts of the Benue River Valley
Winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association
The Benue River Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan...
ISBN: 9780977834457
more detailsArt of the Lega
Drawing upon diverse sources, including Daniel P. Biebuyck’s seminal fieldwork of the 1950s, Elisabeth Cameron investigates the culture and the art of the Lega peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among the Lega,...
ISBN: 9780930741877
more detailsResplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe
A History in Layers
In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. These...
ISBN: 9780984755035
more detailsSteeped in History
The Art of Tea
After water, tea is the most frequently consumed beverage on the face of the earth. In ancient China tea was regarded as one of the seven daily necessities of life; for many Japanese it has...
ISBN: 9780977834419
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