The global Africa project
By: [co-curators, Lowery Stokes Sims, Leslie King-Hammond ; authors, Naomi Beckwith et al. ; edited by Martina D'Alton]
Contributors: Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum of Arts and Design; Prestel
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; Munich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9783791350844
Subjects: Influence; African Art; Design; Exhibitions; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition The global Africa project, organized by the the Museum of Arts and Design, November 17, 2010-May 15, 2010 [i.e. 2011].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-251)
Table of contents: title: The global Africa project : contemporary design, craft, and art / Lowery Stokes Sims, Leslie King-Hammond; title: My Africa / Tony Whitfield; title: Global city, urban flux : three models of globalization from and in Africa / Naomi Beckwith; title: A critical space : notes from the global yard / Christopher Cozier; title: Eclectic dialogue : the architectural search for an Afro-centric design aesthetic / José J. Mapily; title: Utopian processes, dystopian premonitions : African craft and design answer questions we have yet to ask / Keith Recker; title: From masquerade to fashion and back / Judith Bettelheim; title: Bushpunk and the future of Africa / Julie Lasky; title: Exhibition history : art from Africa and the African diaspora, 1989-2010 / Aiden L. Faust.