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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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Filed in Arts and Culture, Magazine

 

Rian Malan – My Traitor’s Heart

Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself. In 1977 Rian Malan, descendant of Daniel Francois Malan, South Africa’s first nationalist Prime Minister, and one of the master builders of apartheid, fled his homeland to live in America. Eight years later he returned from exile to [...]

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Filed in Bookstore, South African

 

The Picasso Book

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was the most prolific artist in the history of Western art, producing over two thousand oil paintings, as well as sculptures, ceramics, collages, prints, photographs, drawings and jewellery designs. Drawing extensively on recent research, this book provides an overview of the full range of Picasso’s art and career. In a unique [...]

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Filed in Bookstore, TATE Gallery London

 

Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910 – 1960

The exhibition will be the first in Europe focusing on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1920 the country was convulsed by the first socialist revolution, from which emerged a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting [...]

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Filed in Bookstore, International

 

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 [...]

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Babylon

Babylon – City of Wonders This book presents a strikingly-illustrated short introduction to Babylon, a powerful and sophisticated ancient city and the home of the fabled Hanging Gardens of Nebuchadnezzar, one of the 7 Wonders of the World. Over the centuries Babylon was lost to view, and survived only in a rich and bizarre set [...]

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Assyrian Palace Sculptures

Between the ninth and seventh centuries BC the small kingdom of Assyria in northern Iraq expanded through conquest to dominate the region from Egypt to Iran. The power of the Assyrian kings was reflected in the creation of a series of magnificent palaces in which the walls of principal rooms and courtyards were lined with [...]

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The Cat in Ancient Egypt

Many modern cats are descendants of the cats of ancient Egypt. These beautiful creatures thus represent a living link between the modern world and the ancient Egyptian civilization. Cats in Egypt were probably domesticated by around 4,000 BC, from wild ancestors. Over the following centuries, they became popular household pets; they are regularly shown in [...]

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George Grosz

George Grosz (1893–1959) was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group. He was born Georg Ehrenfried Groß in Berlin, but changed his name in 1916 out of a romantic enthusiasm for America. Anti-Nazi, Grosz left Germany in 1932, and in 1933 was invited to teach at the Art Students League of [...]

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Filed in Bookstore, International

 

The Book of Tea

Tea is a beverage with roots all over the globe, from English tearooms to the mountains of Tibet. This exquisitely illustrated volume leads readers on an investigation of the many faces of tea: a mythic plant, a ceremony, the cause of wars (remember the Boston Tea Party), and ultimately one of the world’s favorite beverages. [...]

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Filed in Bookstore, International

 

 
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