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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9783791350844 ISBN: 3791350846 Item Dimensions:1091026263818 Label: Prestel USA Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished Manufacturer: Prestel USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: November 15, 2010 Publisher: Prestel USA Studio: Prestel USA
Product Description: This book provides a savvy survey of the latest work by designers, craftspeople, and architects of African descent 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.