Best South African Artists - April 2024

My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South

A new consideration of extraordinary art created by Black artists during the mid-20th centuryMy Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary Black artists working throughout the southeastern United States. These paintings, drawings, mixed-media compositions, sculptures, and textiles include pieces ranging from the profound assemblages of Thornton Dial to the renowned quilts of Gee’s Bend. Nearly 60 remarkable examples are illustrated alongside insightful texts that situate them in the history of modernism and the context of African American experience in the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1588396096
• ASIN: 1588396096
• ISBN: 1588396096
• Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Simple journal - Everyday is your day: South African Ndebele art notebook, Daily Journal, Composition Book Journal, Sketch Book, College Ruled Paper, ... sheets). Dot-grid layout with cream paper.

Notebook with the south African Ndebele art cover and the quote "Simple journal - Everyday is your day.” You can take note or sketch down your ideas, your experiences or memories that you want to keep. This beautiful notebook can be a gift for friends, family, and all your loved ones. The paperback notebook consists of 150 numbered pages, size 5.25 x 8 inches.

• ASIN: 1088406572
• ASIN: 1088406572
• ISBN: 1088406572
• Manufacturer: Independently published

Counting Descent

Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary AwardFinalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards'One Book One New Orleans' 2017 Book Selection---Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1938912659
• ASIN: 1938912659
• ISBN: 9781938912658
• Brand: Write Bloody Publishing
• Manufacturer: Write Bloody Publishing

Ndebele

An internationally renowned photojournalist documents the colorful geometric murals and magnificent ceremonial beadwork produced by the Ndebele people of Southern Africa

• ASIN: 0847806855
• ASIN: 0847806855
• ISBN: 0847806855
• Brand: Rizzoli
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

The House Girl: A Novel (P.S.)

• ASIN: B0089LODXW
• ASIN: B0089LODXW
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

The Seventh Most Important Thing

This “luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews) story of anger and art, loss and redemption will appeal to fans of Lisa Graff’s Lost in the Sun and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy.NOMINATED FOR 16 STATE AWARDS!AN ALA NOTABLE BOOKAN ILA TEACHERS CHOICEA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR  Arthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. Arthur had his reasons, and the brick hit the Junk Man in the arm, not the head. But none of that matters to the judge—he is ready to send Arthur to juvie forever. Amazingly, it’s the Junk Man himself who offers an alternative: 120 hours of commun... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553497316
• ASIN: 0553497316
• ISBN: 0553497316
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Yearling

Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi

Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling’s sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist’s magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in pictures that are at once absorbing and tactile. When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Frank Bowling’s immense "map paintings" were widely celebrated for their vibrant color and subtle modulation of the painted surface. These works, like many in Bowling’s oeuvre, draw on the principle of mapping to create a kind of mental geography, woven throughout with personal and historic imag... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3791356585
• ASIN: 3791356585
• ISBN: 9783791356587
• Manufacturer: Prestel

Finding Martha's Place: My Journey Through Sin, Salvation, and Lots of Soul Food

Welcome to Martha's Place . . .  Martha Hawkins was the tenth of twelve children born in Montgomery, Alabama. There was no money, but her childhood was full of love. Martha's mother could transform a few vegetables from the backyard into a feast and never turned away a hungry mouth.   Memories of the warmth of her family's supper table would remain with Martha. Even as a poor single mother without a high school diploma, Martha dreamed of one day opening a restaurant that would make people feel at home. She'd serve food that would nourish body and soul. But time went by and that dream slippe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1439137811
• ASIN: 1439137811
• ISBN: 1439137811
• Brand: Touchstone
• Manufacturer: Touchstone

Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond

Mary Lee Bendolph’s extraordinary patchworks garnered national attention when they were featured among the works of other quiltmakers from her tiny, predominately African American community in the 2002 blockbuster exhibition and book, The Quilts of Gee’s Bend. This beautiful book examines Bendolph’s inspiration, creative process, and individual genius, as well as her profound connection to the cultural practices and expressive traditions out of which her work arises. It studies her artistic relationships with other artists — her mother, Aolar Mosely; her daughter, Essie Bendolph Pettway... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0971910480
• ASIN: 0971910480
• ISBN: 0971910480
• Brand: Brand: Tinwood Books
• Manufacturer: Tinwood Books

The Great Greene Heist (Jackson Greene)

"A political heist page-turner set in middle school? Is that even possible? Varian Johnson shows us how it's done." - Gordon Korman, author of SWINDLE "Do yourself a favor and start reading immediately." - Rebecca Stead, author of WHEN YOU REACH ME Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal, which could win him the presidency no matter the vote count. So Jackson as... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0545525535
• ASIN: 0545525535
• ISBN: 9780545525534
• Brand: Arthur A Levine Books
• Manufacturer: Arthur A. Levine Books

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college, she is now living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston-"too much of the south in her"-who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312541244
• ASIN: 0312541244
• ISBN: 0312541244
• Manufacturer: Griffin

Don't Block the Blessings

A memoir by the soul, gospel, and disco diva describes her terrible shyness as a child, the violent end of her parents' relationship when she was a teenager, and her eventual rise to the heights of stardom.

• ASIN: 1573220396
• ASIN: 1573220396
• ISBN: 1573220396
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Hardcover

Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence

• ASIN: 0811820823
• ASIN: 0811820823
• ISBN: 9780811820820
• Brand: Chronicle Books
• Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

Green Rooibos Tea Organic Teabags - 40 Non GMO Naturally Caffeine Free South African Green Unoxidized Red Bush Tagless Herbal Tea Bags by Rooibos Rocks: Rooibos Teas, Taste of Africa Feel the Goodness

At Rooibos Rocks we're as passionate about our South African organic decaf green herbal teas as we are about our people. It's why we make sure that every cup is filled with only the best organic premium grade A green roobois, by supporting the local families and farmers in the Cederberg Mountains who grow, hand harvest and select our African green roybus tea. Green Rooibos Tea is naturally caffeine free and comes in 40 unbleached, unwrapped tagless decaf tea bags. When you open our distinctive green tea box that's designed by South African artist Heidi Chisholm, you'll enjoy: A lighter bodied ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07MF2BY12
• ASIN: B07MF2BY12
• Brand: Rooibos Rocks
• Manufacturer: Trading Queen Inc

Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock & roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help in getting to the United States. She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War to seek asylum in China.Red Chin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385482329
• ASIN: 0385482329
• ISBN: 0385482329
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed NAMED ONE OF THE

• UPC: 52611618
• Rating: 4.557

Fodor's essential south africa : with the best safari destinations - paperback: 9781640970144

Everything about Africa that stirs the imagination is concentrated in its southernmost country. Lions freely roam vast game reserves such as Kruger National Park; vineyards stretch across the Cape Winelands; and mountains cascade into the

• UPC: 820127524

South of Pico : African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

Kellie Jones traces how the artists in L.A.'s black communities during the 1960s and 70s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism through the production of art

• UPC: 55365746

Ali Baba's Book Series on: Artistic Flags - Book One: Africa. North America. South America - eBook

This book is about celebrating so many beautiful cultures, customs, languages, and landscapes. As if over the years, all nations have collectively decided to display their flags as a way to mark their victory. Thus

• UPC: 745055578

South African Artists at Home - eBook

An artist’s canvas reflects the face he chooses to show to the world, but the place in which that art is made is seldom revealed. Paul Duncan was given unparalleled access into the homes and

• UPC: 785422833

Peter Abrahams - Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a li - Famous Quotes Laminated POSTER PRINT 24X20.

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• UPC: 423237649
• Size: 24"X20"24\" x 20\"

Philoslothical South Africa Weekly Planner: Habit Tracker, Build Healthy Routines, Achieve Goals and Live Your Best Life

Philoslothical South Africa Weekly Planner: Habit Tracker, Build Healthy Routines, Achieve Goals and Live Your Best

• UPC: 753298871

Zanele Muholi is not a Third World Lesbian. Exhibiting a South African Queer Artist in Germany - eBook

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1.0, Free University of Berlin (Otto-Suhr-Institut), course: Issues of postcolonial transformation in Africa, language: English, abstract: This paper

• UPC: 726847140

Zulu Designs: Telephone Wire Baskets by South African Artists

Zulu Designs: Telephone Wire Baskets by South African

• UPC: 304852003

Personnel: Randy Brecker (trumpet, flugelhorn); Maucha Adnet (vocals); David Sanborn (saxophone); David Bargeron (trombone); David Taylor (bass trombone, tuba); Keith Underwood (alto & bass flutes); Lawrence Feldman (bass flute); Bob Mintzer (bass clarinet); Gil Goldstein (accordion, keyboards); Adam Rogers (acoustic & electric guitars); Bakithi Kumalo (bass); Jonathan Joseph (drums); Cafe (percussion); Richard Sussman (programming).Principally recorded at Power Station, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Randy Brecker.INTO THE SUN won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance.This disc showcases Randy Brecker's wide-ranging influences and continuing love affair with Brazilian music. Brecker and arranger Gil Goldstein brought together musicians from NY, Miami, Brazil and South Africa to form a unit which manages to maintain a spontaneous feel within some extremely challenging and modern arrangements. "Grey Area" employs the talents of guitarist Adam Rogers to give the track a hard-edged fusion sound reminiscent of early Brecker Brothers music. "The Hottest Man In Town, a recording made by Brecker's father, when the junior Brecker was only two weeks old, predicting Randy's future as an innovative jazz musican.

INTO THE SUN [RANDY BRECKER]

• UPC: 3441664

Various Artists : Best of South African Jazz CD (2004) FREE Shipping, Save £s

• UPC: 303438107503
• Category: CDs
• Price: 2 GBP