Africa & African Diaspora

Susan E. Cahan Hardcover | 19.05 x 3.18 x 26.04 cm | 360 pp Duke University Press | 2016 | 9780822358978 In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan investigates the strategies African American artists and museum professionals employed as they wrangled over access to and the direction of...

Charles Fréger Hardcover | 19 x 3.3 x 23.6 cm | 320 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500022467 All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom,...

Timothy Anglin Burgard Hardcover | 22.56 x 1.91 x 26.67 cm | 184 pp Prestel | 2018 | 9783791357171 While the self-taught artists featured in this groundbreaking catalogue were born in the Jim Crow period of institutionalised racism, their works embody the promise and attainment...

Lowery Stokes Sims Hardcover | 24.89 x 3.05 x 28.7 cm | 224 pp MFA Publications | 2015 | 9780878468157 The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last four hundred years.From...

Leo Wainwright Softcover | 23.11 x 1.52 x 15.49 cm | 240 pp Liverpool University Press | 2017 | 9781781384176 Phenomenal Difference grants new attention to contemporary black British art, exploring its critical and social significance through attention to embodied experience, affectivity, the senses...

Softcover |  20.4 x 27.6 x 2 cm | 288 pp Prestel | 2011 | 9783791346960 Ever since the late 1960s when Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne presented African-inspired collections, the textiles, details, and colours of Africa have moved into the realm of high...

Softcover | 14 X 20 cm | 36 pp Café Royal Books | 2023 Jan Greshoff was a Belgium born architect by profession but a photographerby passion. He left Europe for Cape Town, South Africa in 1939 and documented Cape Town and his environs...

Softcover | 14 X 20 cm | 36 pp Café Royal Books | 2023 Jan Greshoff was a Belgium born architect by profession but a photographerby passion. He left Europe for Cape Town, South Africa in 1939 and documented Cape Town and his environs...

Edited by Rosalind Krauss Softcover | 15.4 x 1 x 23 cm | 187 pp | b&w illustrations MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262533454 Critical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge. Since...

William Kentridge & Amiee Ng Hardcover | 17.78 x 0.64 x 22.86 cm | 72 pp | 38 colour illustrations D Giles | 2021 | 9781911282709 The White Horse (1819) by John Constable (1776–1837) is the first of the series of the "six-footers," monumental landscapes of...

Koto Bolofo & Claudia Van Ryssen-Bolofo Hardcover | 29.8 x 1.9 x 38.1 cm | 112 pp Steidl | 2014 | 9783869306001 Having left South Africa at the age of four as a political refugee with his parents, photographer Koto Bolofo returned to his home country with...

Softcover | 14 X 20 cm | 36 pp Café Royal Books | 2023 Jan Greshoff was a Belgium born architect by profession but a photographerby passion. He left Europe for Cape Town, South Africa in 1939 and documented Cape Town and his environs...