Angaza Africa: African Art Now - Softcover

Spring, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856695484 ISBN 13: 9781856695480

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

The mission of this book is to illustrate Africa's immensely fertile artistic landscape. Africa has emerged from its colonial past and is asserting its own identity. African art is not only confined to the continent itself, but has spread world-wide through the work of those descended from the enforced migrations of the slave trade and those who have more recently left their homesin Africa to take their place on an international stage.

This book brings together more than 60 of Africa's most creative contemporary artists, drawn from across the African continent as well as from Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and South America. Their art leaps off the page with over 350 color images (many especially commissioned). In addition to painters, sculptors, and photographers, there are a number of artists whose work embraces performance and installation. Many of the materials they use are as unorthodox astheir imagery, with ready made and found objects.

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Spring is curator of the Sainsbury African galleries at the British Museum in London. A practicing artist himself, he is the author of many books on Africa and its cultural heritage, including African Arms and Armour (1995), African Textile Design (1997), Africa: Arts and Cultures (2000), and Silk in Africa (2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1856695484
• ISBN 13: 9781856695480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336