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17 Search Results for "africa"

Image	Descripton	Specifications
	Banco:Adobe Mosques of Inner Niger	pages, 9788874390519 Five Continents Publishing Price (AUD) $90 Download PDF
	Art and Power in the Central African Savanna Petridis,Constantine Revealing the powers immanent in works that the West long regarded only as exotic or abstract, Constantine Petridis looks beneath the surface of the a... read more	160 pages, 30 x 24 100 colour images Hardback 9789061538301 Thames and Hudson Price (AUD) $90 Download PDF
	Pitch Blackness Thomas,Hank Williams Hank Willis Thomas gained wide recognition with his highly provocative series B??ANDED, which addresses the commoditisation of African-American male i... read more	128 pages, 20 x 25 125 colour images Hardback 9781597110723 Aperture Price (AUD) $59.95 Download PDF
	Ubangi:Art and Cultures from the African Heartland Grootaers,Jan-Lodewijk The Ubangi is a truly transitional region, situated between the dense forest in the South and the wooded savannah to the North, between Bantu speakers... read more	328 pages, 30 x 24 350 colour images Hardback 9789061537403 Thames and Hudson Price (AUD) $225 Download PDF
	Beaufort West Subotzky,Mikhael At the halfway point along South Africa's great highway theN1 running from Cape Town to Johannesburg lies the small town of Beaufort West. With a pr... read more	80 pages, 28 x 37 45 colour images Hardback 9781905712113 Chris Boot Ltd Price (AUD) $120 Download PDF
	Visions of Africa:Bamana Colleyn,Jean-Paul The Bamana (or Bambara) are members of the Mande culture, a large and powerful group of peoples in western Africa. The artistic tradition of the Baman... read more	160 pages, 16 x 24 64 colour images Flexibound 9788874393480 Five Continents Publishing Price (AUD) $59.95 Download PDF
	African Terra Cotta Morin,F & Wastiau,B. Terra cotta is not just used for domestic containers. It can take on an infinite number of forms, as a result of the ductility of clay and the extraor... read more	464 pages, 24 x 31 190 colour images Hardback 9788874394876 Five Continents Publishing Price (AUD) $180 Download PDF
	Living Africa Bloom,Steve This magnificent photographic survey is a personal tour through the length and breadth of Africa by one of the world's leading nature and wildlife pho... read more	336 pages, 35 x 26 200 images Hardback 9780500514276 Thames and Hudson Price (AUD) $90 Download PDF
	Visions of Africa:Baule Boyer,Alain-Michel While neighbouring peoples often content themselves with carving masks, and some just produce statuettes, the Baule used to have doors, spoons, pulley... read more	160 pages, 16 x 24 64 colour images Flexibound 9788874393862 Five Continents Publishing Price (AUD) $59.95 Download PDF
	Visions of Africa:Punu Perrois,L & Grand-Dufay,C Situated in the south-west of Gabon, the Panu are part of a group of a group of people known essentially for these white masks. These objects, which c... read more	160 pages, 16 x 24 64 colour images Flexibound 9788874394012 Five Continents Publishing Price (AUD) $59.95 Download PDF
	African Costumes & Textiles:From the Berbers to the Zulus Bouttiaux,Anne Marie This book is a tribute to the creativity of the peoples of Africa, in particular to its weavers, and presents magnificent textiles and accessories in ... read more	320 pages, 24 x 30 images throughout Hardback 9788874394760 Five Continents Publishing Price (AUD) $120 Download PDF
	African Air Steinmetz,George Flying hundreds, sometime thousands, of feet above ground strapped into a motorized paraglider that is little more than a parachute with a small motor... read more	216 pages, 33 x 22 Colour images throughout Hardback 9780810984035 Abrams - Australian Distributed Price (AUD) $59.95 Download PDF
	Places We Live Bendiksen,Jonas The year 2008 has witnessed a major shift in the way people across the world live: for the first time in human history more people live in cities than... read more	196 pages, 20 x 15 66 images Hardback 9781597110679 Aperture Price (AUD) $75 Download PDF
	Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu Hunwick,J & Boye,A.J. The city of Timbuktu in modern Mali has been a destination of legend for centuries, ever since the days when camel caravans made epic journeys across ... read more	176 pages, 32 x 34 200 colour images Hardback 9780500514214 Thames and Hudson Price (AUD) $75 Download PDF
	Orientalist Photographs:1870-1940 Milet,Eric This groundbreaking work is a privileged insight into the beliefs, culture, and traditions of Northern Africa during the “golden age of travel”. ... read more	204 pages, 24x31 120 images hardback 9782080300898 Flammarion Price (AUD) $75 Download PDF
	Medusa:African Sculpture of Enchantment Wastiau,Boris Just as the mythological Greek figure Medusa possessed the extraordinary power of turning onlookers into stone, the stunning African artifacts, masks... read more	256 pages, 28 x 24 160 colour images Hardback 9788874394692 Five Continents Publishing Price (AUD) $120 Download PDF
	Kuba: Visions of Africa Series Binkley,D & Darish,P A fascinating and essential overview of the Kuba people and their art through fifty exemplary pieces. The latest volume in the Visions of Africa se... read more	160 pages, 165 x 240 mm 79 Images, 64 in Colour Flexibound 9788874394043 Five Continents Publishing Price (AUD) $65 Download PDF