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Nka: A Journal of Contemporary African Art. Number 26.
From the Editor Back Salah M. Hassan From the Editor Articles Back Tamar Garb A Land of Signs Lisa E. Bloom Arctic Spaces: Politics and Aesthetics in True North and Gender on Ice Nadine Siegert From the Border of the City to the Shore of the Island: The Angolan Artist António Ole Julie L. McGee [...]
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A Private passion
A Private Passion 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University Grenville L. Winthrop (1864-1943) was a lawyer and banker by profession, but his true passion was collecting art. He had the resources, the intuition and talented advisers to help him create a collection that is distinct not only in its [...]
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How Art Made the World DVD
As part of BBC’s agenda to generate public awareness about art history’s relevance to contemporary culture, the documentary series How Art Made the World is a landmark. Host Dr. Nigel Spivey, a Classical Archaeology professor from Cambridge, asserts, over five episodes, that not only have cultures thrived according to their abilities to communicate visually, but [...] |
The Drawings of Rembrandt
The Drawings of Rembrandt – A New Study This sweeping overview of Rembrandt’s extraordinary achievement as a draughtsman fills a gap in the otherwise enormous literature on the artist. Beautifully illustrated, mostly in colour, the more than 150 drawings culled from a corpus of some 800 are discussed in detail. The drawings span Rembrandt’s entire [...]
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Mirror of the World
Mirror of the World – A New History of Art What is art and where did it begin? Why do we make it and why does it change? These are some of the many questions that Julian Bell considers in his highly acclaimed book, now available in paperback. Bell, himself a painter, takes a global [...]
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo – The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture With an engaging text by renowned Michelangelo scholar William E. Wallace, “Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture” brings together in one exquisite volume the powerful sculptures, the awe-inspiring paintings, and the classical architectural works of one of the greatest artists of all time. Including everything from his sculptures [...]
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Spier Contemporary 2010
Spier Contemporary 2010 The Spier Contemporary 2010 will open on 14 March 2010 after two years of planning, a nationwide call for entry, an exhaustive curatorial tour, and the astonishing transformation of its exhibition space, the Cape Town City Hall.Presented by the Africa Centre, the Spier Contemporary Art Exhibition will showcase the work of 101 [...] |
African Art from the Menil Collection
Banana masks and headdresses, Lega ivories, Dogon sculpture, and Benue bronzes are among the many exquisite African artifacts found in the renowned Menil Collection. This book – the first comprehensive catalogue on John and Dominique de Menil’s collection of African art – features 115 of the museum’s finest pieces. Dating primarily from the nineteenth and [...]
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Taking Things Seriously:75 Objects With Unexpected Significance
Taking Things Seriously:75 Objects with unexpected Significance Taking Things Seriously is a wonder cabinet of seventy-five unlikely thingamajigs that have been invested with significance and transformed into totems, talismans, charms, relics, and fetishes: scraps of movie posters scavenged from the streets of New York by Low Life author Luc Sante; the World War I helmet [...]
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The Visible Vagina
The Visible Vagina The Visible Vagina is a publication that reproduces works of art that were designed to make visible a portion of the female anatomy that is generally considered taboo too private and intimate for public display. If shown at all, this part of a woman’s body is usually presented in an abject fashion, [...]
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