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African Art: Modern & Contemporary Art

UW Art Library guide on finding books, journals, and databases on African Art.

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Contemporary African Art by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Call Number: N7380 .K36 2020

Publication Date: 2020
Contemporary African Art Since 1980 by Okwui Enwezor & Chika Okeke-Agulu
Call Number: N7391.65 .E59 2009

Publication Date: 2009

Books on African Artists

African Artists: from 1882 to Now by Rebecca Morrill & Simon Hunegs
Call Number: N7380 .A3485 2021

Publication Date: 2021
African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century by Osei Bonsu
Publication Date: 2022
Global Africa Project by Lowery Stokes Sims (Editor, Contribution by); Leslie King-Hammond (Editor)
Call Number: N7380.5 .G56 2010

Publication Date: 2010
Angaza Afrika: African Art Now by Christopher Spring
Call Number: N7380 .S67 2008

Publication Date: 2008
Robin Rhode: Memory Is the Weapon by Uta Ruhkamp
Call Number: N7396.R46 A4 2019

Publication Date: 2019
Wangechi Mutu by Adrienne Edwards
Publication Date: 2022
Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire by Thorsten Sadowsky
Call Number: N6797.S53 A4 2021

Publication Date: 2021
At Home in the World: A Memoir by Ibrahim El-Salahi, edited by Salah M. Hassan
Publication Date: 2021

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Databases

Art & Architecture Source
Comprehensive resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture, and architectural design.
Oxford Art Online
Art reference works, biographies, and encyclopedias, including Grove Art Online and Benezit Dictionary of Artists.

Oxford Art Online entry for "Africa: Modern African art"

Black Studies Center
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 Laurie Ann Farrell
Call Number: N6487.N36 L66 2003

Publication Date: 2004
A Companion to Modern African Art by Monica Blackmun Visona (Editor); Gitti Salami (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
World Is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art by Eddie Chambers
Call Number: N8232 .C58 2021

Publication Date: 2021
Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to Marketplace by Olu Oguibe & Okwui Enwezor (Editors)
Call Number: N7380 .R4 1999

Publication Date: 2000
Authentic/Ex-Centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art by Salah Hassan & Olu Oguibe
Call Number: N7380.5 .A88 2001

Publication Date: 2002
Issues in Contemporary African Art by Nkiru Nzegwu
Call Number: N7380 .I793 1998

Publication Date: 1998
African Modernities: Entangled Meanings in Current Debate by Jan-Georg Deutsch
Call Number: DT3 .A277 2002

Publication Date: 2002
In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal by Elizabeth Harney
Publication Date: 2004
Art and the End of Apartheid by John Peffer
Call Number: N7392.2 .P44 2009

Publication Date: 2009
Ibrahim El-Salahi: a Visionary Modernist by Salah M. Hassan
Call Number: N7397.6.S733 S252 2012

Publication Date: 2012
Earth Matters by Karen E. Milbourne: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa
Call Number: N7391.65 .M55 2014

Publication Date: 2013

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Subjects: African Studies, Arts