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Grass Roots
African Origins of an American Art
Through the prism of America's most enduring African-inspired art form, the Lowcountry basket, Grass Roots guides readers across 300 years of American and African history. In scholarly essays and beautiful photographs, Grass Roots follows the...
ISBN: 9780945802518
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Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope)
Jane Alexander is one of the most significant South African artists working today. The artist's hybrid mutants speak to the porous borders between humans and other forms of animal life. Alexander acts as a nonjudgmental...
ISBN: 9780945802570
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Photography by Sammy Baloji
This suite of images by the Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji explores colonial architecture and copper mines in the city of Lubumbashi and the southeastern Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo....
ISBN: 9780945802556
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