Arts

Adams, Monni. "African Visual Arts from an Art Historical Perspective." African Studies Review 32, no. 2 (1989): 55–103. A comprehensive overview of the literature up to the 1980s.

African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline. Papers Presented at a Symposium Organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, 1990.

Appiah, Kwame A. "Is the Post-in Postmodern the Post-in Postcolonial?" Critical Inquiry 17 (1991): 336–357.

Ben-Amos, Paula. "African Visual Arts from a Social Perspective." African Studies Review 32, no. 2 (1989): 1–53. A review of anthropological literature.

Bravmann, René A. Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

——. Open Frontiers: The Mobility of Art in Black Africa. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973.

Carroll, Kevin. Yoruba Religious Carving: Pagan and Christian Sculpture in Nigeria and Dahomey. Foreword by William Fagg. London and Dublin: G. Chapman, 1967.

Deliss, Clémentine, gen. ed., and Jane Havell, ed. Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa. London: Whitechapel, 1995.

Enwezor, Okwui, ed. The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994. Munich and New York: Prestel, 2001.

Fagg, William. African Majesty: From Grassland and Forest: The Barbara and Murray Frum Collection, May 22–July 12, 1981. Introduction by Alan G. Wilkinson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981.

Fall, N'Goné, and Jean Loup Pivin, eds. An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2002. A collection on the transition from traditional to contemporary African Art.

Geiss, Imanuel. The Pan-African Movement: A History of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe, and Africa. Translated by Ann Keep. New York: Africana, 1974.

Gerbrands, A. A. Art as an Element of Culture, Especially in Negro-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1957.

Hassan, Salah M. "The Khartoum and Addis Connections." In Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, edited by Jane Havell; general editor Clémentine Deliss, 105–125. London: Whitechapel, 1995.

——. "The Modernist Experience in African Art: Visual Expressions of the Self and Cross-Cultural Aesthetics." In Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor Oguibe, 215–235. London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 1999.

Hassan, Salah M., and Achamyeleh Debela. "Addis Connections: The Making of Modern Ethiopian Art Movement." In Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa, edited by Jane Havell, general editor Clémentine Deliss, 127–139. London: Whitechapel, 1995.

Kasfir, Sidney L. "African Art and Authenticity: A Text with a Shadow." African Arts 25, no. 2 (1992): 41–53, 96–97.

——. "One Tribe, One Style: Paradigms in the Historiography of African Art." History in Africa 11 (1984): 163–193.

Lamp, Frederick. Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Invention. Forewords by Simon Ottenberg and Djibril Tamsir Niane. New York: Museum for African Art, 1996.

Mount, Marshall W. African Art: The Years since 1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973. Reviews contemporary art schools, workshops, and styles up to the early 1970s.

Oguibe, Olu, and Okwui Enwezor, eds. Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace. London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 1999.

Perani, Judith, and Fred T. Smith. The Visual Arts of Africa: Gender, Power, and Life Cycle Rituals. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1998.

Phillips, Tom, ed. Africa: The Art of a Continent. New York: Prestel, 1995.

Picton, John. "In Vogue, or The Flavour of the Month: The New Way to Wear Black." In Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor, 115–126. London: International Institute of Visual Arts, 1999.

——. "Neo-Traditional Sculpture in Nigeria." In An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century, edited by N'Goné Fall and Jean Loup Pivin, 98–101. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2002.

Pollack, Barbara. "The Newest Avant-Garde." Art News 100, no. 4 (2001): 124–129.

Prussin, Labelle. Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Sieber, Roy, and Arnold Rubin. Sculpture of Black Africa: The Paul Tishman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968.

Steiner, Christopher B. African Art in Transit. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Visonà, Monica Blackmun, Robin Poynor, Herbert M. Cole, and Michael D. Harris. A History of Art in Africa. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

Williamson, Sue. Resistance Art in South Africa. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.