Summary:

Accompanying the Grey Art Gallery's exhibition of the same name, The
Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art brings some 60
contemporary paintings, sculptures, videos and photographs by artists
living in Africa and abroad into dialogue with a selection of
mid-twentieth-century and recent African textiles. Artists include El
Anatsui, Samuel Cophie, Viye Diba, Sokari Douglas Camp, Groupe
Bogolan Kasobane, Abdoulaye Konate, Rachid Koraichi, Atta Kwami,
Grace Ndiritu, Nike Okundaye, Owusu-Ankomah, Yinka Shonibare, Malick
Sidibe, Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko, Rikki Wemega-Kwawu and Sue
Williamson, while texts are by renowned Africanist scholar John
Picton, Ghanaian poet Kofi Anyidoho and the Grey Art Gallery's Lynn
Gumpert, among others.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 709 -- Historical, areas, persons treatment

Book Details:

Physical Description: 6.5"x9.5"x0.5"; 0.8 lb; 112 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 2009-07-31

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