Search Results: African Art from Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1988. Softcover. VG (With minor wear or few marks from previous gallery owner, or block slightly bent.). Black & color pictorial wraps. 195 pp. Many color and some bw plates. Catalogue for the loan exhibtion organized by the Center for African Art which presents 160 objects of art and ethnography selected from three anthropology museums founded in the 1860s: Buffalo Museum of Science, the Hampton University Museum (Virginia), and the American Museum of Natural History (New York City). The exhibit asks questions about the aesthetic and ethical challenges of the classifications of both African and modern art objects. Exhibition appeared at the Buffalo Museum of Science, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Henry Art Gallery of the University of Washington, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Carnegie Institute, and the Denver Museum of Natural History.

Sao Paulo: Museu de Arte Arqueologia da Universidade de S. Paulo, 1969. Softcover. VG, clean, tight interior but with soiling to covers.. White stapled wraps with bw illus. and black lettering. 40 pp. with several bw illus.; bw fold-out map inside back cover. Text in Portuguese. Catalogue from the exhibition held in Brazil of black African works of art from the collection of the institute in Dakar, Senegal. 423 items listed and described in brief. With an introduction by de Meneses and the catalogue and a brief commentary about it by Thiam. Two forewords as well, and a bibliography.

New York / Munich: The Center For African Art / Prestel-Verlag, 1988. Hardcover. VG- (scuffs & scratches to boards. light wear to corners. foxing to textblock edges w/ light remnants to pg edges; pgs clean. foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. dustjacket spine & edge sunned; scuffed & scratched w/ foxing). black cloth boards w/ silver spine printing. 255 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. black & red dustjacket w/ illustration. Remains fairly tightly bound.

New York: Center for African Art, 1991. Paperback. VG but for small bookplate of prior owner inside front cover. Silver illus. glossy wraps with black lettering; 294 pp. with numerous illus., some in color. Includes sections on traditional and extinct art. A very thorough and well-illustrated volume covering numerous artists.

Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2005. Paperback. VG-. Some shelf wear on covers and page edgings, but overall clean and tight.. Rainbow wraps with black, yellow, teal lettering. 59 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Title continues: L'art contemporain d'un continent / Contemporary Art of a Continent. An exhibition held at Centre Georges Pompidou, Galerie 1, May 25-August 8, 2005. Parallel text in English and French.

London: Royal Academy of Arts / Prestel, 1995. Softcover. Good+ (VG, clean, tight contents but with light shelf wear and scuffing to covers; binding slightly cocked). Black ill. wraps with red lettering. 613 pp. profusely illustrated with color and bw plates, numbered by chapter. Heavy at 7 pounds and will require extra postage. Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Royal Academy October 1995 to January 1996. Covers the art of all of Africa, divided into geographic sections, with different authors for each. Introduction by Tom Phillips. This volume provides a global vision of the art of Africa through a host of colourful images of the finest known objects from the continent's cultural heritage. It examines African art geographically in a "grand tour" that divides the continent into seven areas. Beginning with ancient Egypt and Nubia, it moves down the eastern coast through Ethiopia and the Sudan - including the island of Madagascar - to Southern Africa, then up through the Congo and Central… Read More

Guggenheim Museum, 1996. Softcover. VG (slight toning to top of pages). White wraps. 191 pp. profuse color and bw plates. Exhibition in London, England: Royal Academy of Arts. Oct. 4 , 1995 to Jan. 21, 1996, followed by showings at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin and Guggenheim NY. This is the abbridged version of the catalogue.

NY: Center for African Art / Prestel, 1988. Paperback. VG (minor edgewear on the wraps; interior is clean; binding is solid.). Black illustrated wraps. 255 pp. Color and bw plates. Catalogue for exhibition. An interesting and illuminating work of scholarship discussing the trade between African artists and European markets.

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum, 1978. Paperback. Good+ (Wraps are edgeworn, smudged and scuffed; notes might be present on endpapers; textblock edges are scuffed, smudged and foxed; textblock may be cracked; interior is clean; binding is solid.). Black wraps with white, green and red lettering; 143, 366 pp.; richly illustrated. Volume 1: The Essays; Volume 2: The Exhibition. These two volumes were created on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, September 30 through December 31, 1978.

Louisville, Kentucky: University of Louisville, 1966. Pamphlet. VG but with art museum stamp on front cover.. Glossy, bw tri-fold wraps with white lettering. 6 panels with 5 bw illus. Catalogue from the exhibition of December 1966. The works are listed in alpabetical order by collection name and, within that, by tribe. All works in the exhibition were made of wood. Collections represented included the Anita Glaze Collection, Indiana University Art Museum, Museum of Primitive Art (New York), and the Roy Sieber Collection. 25 works in all. With a brief essay by Joseph Polzer.

Washington, DC: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. Softcover. VG. Black wraps. 180 pp. 88 color plates. Includes essays by Micahel Kan and Roy Sieber. Describes and illustrates 88 works. Very nice catalogue of the collection. African Masterworks in the Detroit Institute of Arts showcases eighty-eight of the museum's finest works, representing the full range of major sub-Saharan sculptural traditions during the past three centuries: figures, masks, containers, carved stools, jewelry, and musical instruments. As noted in the introductory material, almost all African art has a functional base - each sculpture's primary justification is its effectiveness as a ritual or utilitarian object. Text accompanying each photograph describes not only the circumstances, when known, of the object's creation, but also the harmonious interplay of its aesthetic features and cultural and spiritual function. The catalogue also details the rituals surrounding the… Read More

New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc. Hardcover. VG-light wear and scuffing to cover, exlib with sticker to spine. Light brown boards. 89 pp. Profuse bw plates. Text in Danish and English. Covers Alangua, Baga, Baluba, Bangala, Dan, Ekoi, Ibibio, Makonde, Mendi, Senofo, Turka, Warega, Yoruba, and groups.

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1967. Softcover. VG. Cream textured wraps, stapled, with brown image of giraffe on front cover. Unpaginated with approx. 45 pp. and 50 bw images. With an introductory essay about the collection by Sieber. Catalogue of works from the collection, briefly described and pictured. 50 works from the Sudan, Congo and and Guinea, exhibited from April 9 to May 7 1967.

Ames, Iowa: State University of Iowa, 1956. Softcover. Good+ (Clean and tight interior but with some sunning and light wrinkling to covers.). White paper wraps with bw image and black lettering. 12 pp. with 11 bw illustrations. Catalogue of 160 objects exhibited from June - July 1956. Each work described in brief, and all works listed in geographic order, from French Sudan through the Guinea coast, the Cameroons, French Equatorial Africa and the Congo. Most pieces are made of wood. With an introductory essay by Sieber.

NY: Dover Publications, 1958. Softcover. G+, Wear and tanning to wraps with some minor stains. Contents clean and tight with tanning of page edges. Stains to outer edges of text block. An excellent reading or research copy.. Bw wraps. 34 pp. + 164 bw plates. Plates arranged as follows: French Sudan, French Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, British Nigeria, Cameroons, French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, Angola.

1981. Softcover. VG-, light scuffing to cover edges. Brown ill. wraps. 68 pp. Numerous bw plates.

New York: The Museum for African Art, 1993. Softcover. VG-. Glossy black wraps with color illustration and purple and white lettering; 24 pp. with 12 bw illustrations; in matching folio, with 24 single plates. Plates are on card stock with descriptions on back of each one; includes a brief introduction to African art and four short essays providing background information on each image.

Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1970. Softcover. Very clean and tight text but with soiling to covers and ex-lib. marks; a good reference copy. Color-pictorial stapled wraps; 63 pp. with bw illustrations throughout. Very good descriptions of each piece and with a thorough essay by Mr. Kan. Includes a map of Africa. Catalogue of a selection of the museum's holdings.

Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. Softcover. G (DJ has moderate wear to edges and has sunned spine; book flyleaves have slight foxing; interior pages are clean and clear.). White wraps, brown paper dust jacket, xix, appx. 200 pp., 283 bw plates. Annotated and wonderfully illustrated catalogue of 283 works preceded by a preface by Katharine Reswick, a one page-essay by William Fagg, and a four-page essay on the areas of Africa where the art originated.

New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1981. Softcover. VG- (Some pencil markings throughout; Personal library stamp on title page). Color illus. wraps; 288 pp.; 261 plates, 61 in color, the rest bw. Provides an overview of art from Africa and the study of African art; Contains sections on architecture, sculpture, and drawings and paintings.