The Prince Claus Fund Library

Lida Abdul

This is the first monograph on the work of this exceptional contemporary artist from Afghanistan. Lida Abdul
uses diverse media including video, film, photography, installation and live performance in which she transfers the experience of war, invasion, destruction and fanaticism into the symbolic language of art. read more

Kaveh Golestan 1950-2003,
Recording the Truth in Iran

Kaveh Golestan, the "Robert Capa of Iranian press photography", was the only photojournalist with a continued presence in Iran from before the revolution in 1979 until his premature death from a landmine in Northern Iraq in 2003. His monumental archive covers Iran's major political events as well as life of whole groups of people who were marginalised under the changing regimes. In cooperation with Hatje Cantz publishers, Germany. read more

The Art of African Fashion

The Art of African Fashion (1998) covers contemporary African fashion in the widest sense: clothes, textiles and hair design, body decoration and models. read more

Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes

This book published in 2003 brings together contemporary artists and writers from Africa and the African diaspora whose works trace the fault lines that are shaping contemporary experience locally and globally. read more

The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994

This volume is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994. read more

Authentic/Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art

Authentic/Ex-Centric (2001) posits Africa as the source of many of the ideas
associated with European Modernism. read more

Portrait Photographs from Isfahan: Faces in Transition, 1920–1950

Parisa Damandan spent over ten years accumulating an impressive collection of pioneering photographs from the early 20th century, in her hometown of Isfahan. read more

Against the Wind: Politics of Iranian Cinema

Against the Wind: Politics of Iranian Cinema charts the rise of
contemporary Iran through the movies. read more

Facing Up to the Past: Perspectives on the Commemoration of Slavery from Africa, the Americas and Europe

Facing Up to the Past offers refreshing insights in the manifold ways in which the slave trade and slavery are remembered and commemorated – or suppressed – as part of the national identity in the three continents forever connected by the legacies of this triangular trade. read more

Outlet: Yogyakarta within the Contemporary Indonesian Art Scene

The emergence of contemporary art in Indonesia was
influenced in reaction to the depoliticisation of art in the
mid-1960s and early 1970s. read more

Creating Spaces of Freedom: Culture in Defiance

Creating Spaces of Freedom is an anthology of essays on defiant culture, which contains nearly 100 photographs of news images,
cd and book covers, films, cartoons, websites and art. read more

De publicaties van The Prince Claus Fund Library weerspiegelen de doelstellingen van het Prins Claus Fonds, zowel qua inhoud als qua uiterlijk.

De multidisciplinaire boeken in deze serie behandelen een onderwerp dat nog in de kinderschoenen staat en analyseren het plaatselijke effect daarvan in combinatie met de gevolgen voor de rest van de wereld.

De publicaties van The Prince Claus Fund Library hebben een herkenbaar formaat, logo en omslag. De serie bestaat uit analyses van en opvattingen over kunst, cultuur en maatschappelijke betrokkenheid. De titels in de serie verschijnen in het Engels of tweetalig. De Library werkt samen met een aantal uitgevers over de hele wereld.

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