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Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, the film examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market hungry for new tribal...
Lekha Sarkar explores the myths and stereotypes associated with traditional African masks and through them their associated cultures. She traces her journey to Togo and the Cameroon, to High priests,...
Yinka Shonibare is a painter, photographer and installation artist, whose art is influenced by both the cultures of Nigeria, where he grew up, and Britain, where he studied and now lives. He has exhibited...
Looks at the distinctive characteristics of art from countries such as Ghana and Nigeria. Artists including Ato Delaquis, Prince Twins Seven-Seven, Vesta Adu-Gyamfi and Yinka Shonibare discuss their use of...
Illustrates tradition and change in African pottery based particularly on examples from Nigeria, Ghana, the Gambia and Kabylie in Algeria - areas where pottery is normally a female activity. (The set could...
Examines the traditional methods used to produced printed fabrics in Africa, and traces the cultural, historical and symbolic influences on the regions where the production of hand-dyed and printed textiles...
During the colonial period in the 1920s, European interest in collecting African art stimulated a transnational trade between Africa and the West. What has become a multi-million dollar trade lies largely in...
Batik is used all over the Third World for fabric design and has been incorporated in many of the world’s leading fashion designer’s collections. Works of art produced by the batik method are not...
The work of Asian, African and Caribbean artists in post-war Britain. The slides were taken from workd first exhibited in the Hayward Gallery, London 29 Nov 1989-4 Feb 1990. Includes the work of Rasheed...
Dramatisation of a visit to the British Museum by two Africans who discover African art, specifically Benin bronzes, hidden in the basement. An exposé of the policies of European colonial regimes which, in...
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