Research Catalog

Title

The global Africa project / [co-curators, Lowery Stokes Sims, Leslie King-Hammond ; authors, Naomi Beckwith [and others] ; edited by Martina D'Alton].

Publication

New York : Museum of Arts and Design ; Munich : Prestel, [2010]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sims, Lowery Stokes.
• King-Hammond, Leslie, 1944-
• Beckwith, Naomi.
• D'Alton, Martina.
• Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.)

Description

262 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

"This book provides a savvy survey of the latest work by designers, craftspeople, and architects of African descent from around the world. Artists and designers of African ancestry--many in Africa but also others throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Far East--are working in a wide array of mediums: fashion, architecture, non-traditional crafts, design, fine art, and photography. Authors Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King-Hammond, together with six contributors, challenge presumptions of what constitutes an "African" style or aesthetic, and demonstrate the power and expressive potential of materials, textures and forms. Work by well-known artists such as Yinka Shonibare, MBE and architects including David Adjaye appear alongside those of lesser-known but equally exciting designers whose garments, carpets, baskets, ceramics, furniture, body arts, wall painting, photographs and sculpture blur the distinction between art and craft. The result is an enormously diverse display of young and established talent, and a wide-ranging survey of contemporary African art and design."--Publisher's website.

Subjects

• Design > Africa > History > 21st century > Exhibitions
• African American women artists > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Design > Africa > Influence > Exhibitions
• Women artists, Black > 21st century > Exhibitions
• African American artists > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art, African > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art, African > Influence > Exhibitions
• Artists, Black > 21st century > Exhibitions

Note

• Published in conjunction with the exhibition The global Africa project, organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, November 17, 2010-May 15, 2010 [i.e. 2011].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-251).

Contents

Foreword / Holly Hotchner -- Acknowledgments / Lowery Stokes Sims, Leslie King-Hammond -- The global Africa project : contemporary design, craft, and art / Lowery Stokes Sims, Leslie King-Hammond -- Branding content : Patricia Blanchet ; Victor Ekpuk ; Janet Goldner ; Keith Haring ; Lyle Ashton Harris ; Rachid Koraïchi ; Gonçalo Mabunda ; Zwelethu Mthethwa ; Ruth Omabegho ; Kim Schmahmann ; Yinka Shonibare, MBE ; Hank Willis Thomas ; Tony Whitfield ; Kehinde Wiley ; Wu-Tang Clan -- My Africa / Tony Whitfield -- Global city, urban flux : three models of globalization from and in Africa / Naomi Beckwith -- Intersecting cultures : Ardmore Ceramic Art ; Willie Birch ; Black Coffee (Danica Lepen and Jacques van der Watt) ; Sheila Bridges ; iona rozeal brown ; Stephen Burks (Readymade Projects) ; Nick Cave ; Victor Glemaud ; Alex Locadia ; Missoni SPA ; Serge Mouangue ; Duro Olowu ; Cheryl Riley ; Adejoke "Wahala Temi" Tugbiyele Sedita ; Daniele Tamagni ; Mickalene Thomas ; Iké Udé ; Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleka ; Vlisco ; Fred Wilson -- A critical space : notes from the global yard / Christopher Cozier -- Eclectic dialogue : the architectural search for an Afro-centric design aesthetic / José J. Mapily -- Competing globally : Kossi Aguessy ; Alice Yard (Christopher Cozier/Marlon Darbeau/Sheldon Holder/Nicholas Laughlin/Sean Leonard/Richard Rawlins) ; Alexandre Arrechea ; Mervyn Awon ; Birsel + Seck (Ayse Birsel and Bibi Seck) ; Cheick Diallo ; Ndidi Ekubia ; Meschac Gaba ; Andrew Lyght ; Sakina M'sa ; Mabeo Furniture (Peter Mabeo) ; Esther Mahlangu ; Taslim Martin ; Odili Donald Odita ; Magdalene Odundo ; Billy Omabegho ; Jack Travis FAIA NOMAC -- Utopian processes, dystopian premonitions : African craft and design answer questions we have yet to ask / Keith Recker -- Sourcing locally : Olu Amoda ; Kossi Assou ; Egg Designs (Greg Dry and Roché Dry) ; Nomoda Ebenezer Djaba (Mr. Cedi) ; Groupe Bogolan Kasobane ; Bright Ugochukwu Eke ; Aboubakar Fofana ; Anggy Haïf ; Romuald Hazoumè ; Satch Hoyt ; Ousmane M'Baye ; Giovanna Menard ; MUD Studio (Philippa du Toit and Werner du Toit) ; Heath Nash ; Vincent Niamien ; Beverly Price ; Shompole Collection Makers ; Willowlamp (Sian Eliot and Adam Hoets) -- From masquerade to fashion and back / Judith Bettelheim -- Transforming traditions : Joël Andrianomearisoa ; Xenobia Bailey ; Chakaia Booker ; Mark Bradford ; Sonya Clark ; Melvin Edwards and Manufacture sénégalais des arts décoratifs ; Gee's Bend Quilters Collective ; Hair Wars ; Harlem's Heaven Hat Boutique (Evetta Petty) ; Maren Hassinger ; Mary Jackson ; Nesta Nala ; Ntombe Nala ; Thembi Nala ; Reuben Ndwandwe ; Beauty Ngxongo ; J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere ; Joyce Scott ; Siddi Women's Quilting Collective ; Clive Sithole ; Ubuhle Beads -- Bushpunk and the future of Africa / Julie Lasky -- Building communities : Gahaya Links Weaving Association ; Loring Cornish ; Victor Harris and Fi Yi Yi ; The Heidelberg Project (Tyree Guyton) ; William Kamkwamba ; Maker Faire Africa ; Algernon Miller and Sanaa Gateja with Kwetu Afrika Women's Association Angels ; Paa Joe ; zenzulu -- Artist profiles / René Treviño with Natalie Balthrop, Lisa Marie Harris, Monique Long, Brittany Marrow, Sabina Pieslak -- Bibliography ; Exhibition history : art from Africa and the African diaspora, 1989-2010 / Aiden L. Faust.

Call Number

Sc F 16-110

ISBN

• 9783791350844
• 3791350846

LCCN

2010932474

OCLC

630457118

Title

The global Africa project / [co-curators, Lowery Stokes Sims, Leslie King-Hammond ; authors, Naomi Beckwith [and others] ; edited by Martina D'Alton].

Publisher

New York : Museum of Arts and Design ; Munich : Prestel, [2010]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-251).

Added Author

Sims, Lowery Stokes.

King-Hammond, Leslie, 1944-

Beckwith, Naomi.

D'Alton, Martina.

Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

Sc F 16-110