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''After reading this book and savouring the photographs, fashion cognoscenti will have a different view of Africa’s place in the global world of fashion.''' Joanne B. Eicher, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture
The Art of African Fashion (1998) covers contemporary African fashion in the widest sense: clothes, textiles and hair design, body decoration and models – in short, all the arts relating to the decoration of human beings and the expression of self. Illustrated throughout with sumptuous colour and black and white photographs, the book has become canonical in the literature on African fashion and design.
African fashion designers featured in The Art of African Fashion: Abraham Pelham (Liberia/France),Tetteh Adzedu (Ghana), Joël Andrianomearisoa (Madagascar), Alphadi (Niger), Katoucha (Guinea/UK), Oumou Sy (Senegal) and Xuly Bët (Mali/France).
Contributors: Aminata Dramane Traoré (Mali), Hudita Nura Mustafa (South Africa), Mounira Khemir (Tunisia/France), T.K. Biaya (D.R. Congo/Senegal), Salah M. Hassan (Sudan/US), Marie-Amy Mbow (Senegal), Renée Mendy (Senegal/France), and Anna Getaneh (Ethiopia/US).
Photographers: Eric Don-Arthur (Ghana), Mamadou Touré Behan (Senegal), Karin Duthie (Botswana), and Bruno de Medeiros (Ivory Coast).
Els van der Plas is an art historian and the director of the Prince Claus Fund. Marlous Willemsen is an Arabist and deputy director of ISIM (The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World)
status sold out: reprint rights available
isbn 0 865 43 7262
publishers Red Sea Press and Africa World Press with Prince Claus Fund Library, 1998
paperback, 17 x 22 cm. 272 pages, 117 colour and 28b & w illustrations.
price US $ 29.95
rights world, Prince Claus Fund Library
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