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African Art: Modern & Contemporary Art
UW Art Library guide on finding books, journals, and databases on African Art.
Overviews
Books on African Artists
African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century by Publication Date: 2022
Wangechi Mutu by Publication Date: 2022
At Home in the World: A Memoir by Publication Date: 2021
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Databases
- Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture, and architectural design. - Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
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Art reference works, biographies, and encyclopedias, including Grove Art Online and Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly and general interest sources and historical newspapers and other primary sources on the Black experience from ancient past to present day.
Books on Modern & Contemporary African Art
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora by Call Number: N6487.N36 L66 2003Publication Date: 2004
A Companion to Modern African Art by Publication Date: 2013
Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to Marketplace by Call Number: N7380 .R4 1999Publication Date: 2000
Authentic/Ex-Centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art by Call Number: N7380.5 .A88 2001Publication Date: 2002
African Modernities: Entangled Meanings in Current Debate by Call Number: DT3 .A277 2002Publication Date: 2002
In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal by Publication Date: 2004
Ibrahim El-Salahi: a Visionary Modernist by Call Number: N7397.6.S733 S252 2012Publication Date: 2012
