For more than three decades, Amalia Amaki has garnered critical acclaim for works that examine the beauty, music, experience, and contributions of African Americans. This volume brings together her photographs, quilts, souvenir fans, and mixed-media works. Incorporating fabric, beads, pearls, buttons, paint, glitter, and photographs with cultural symbols and visual puns, Amaki challenges and reconfigures American history in original and meaningful ways. Her artwork examines the breadth and overarching significance of ...
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For more than three decades, Amalia Amaki has garnered critical acclaim for works that examine the beauty, music, experience, and contributions of African Americans. This volume brings together her photographs, quilts, souvenir fans, and mixed-media works. Incorporating fabric, beads, pearls, buttons, paint, glitter, and photographs with cultural symbols and visual puns, Amaki challenges and reconfigures American history in original and meaningful ways. Her artwork examines the breadth and overarching significance of heritage and American culture. This book focuses on the legacies of race and gender in the United States, contests one-dimensional ideas about black life, and debunks mainstream beliefs about African Americans.
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Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials.
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Color illustrations. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 135pp [edgewear to dj; mild general wear to dj; old bookseller label on rear dj] Some shipping will require additional charges-Published in association with the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0295985410. Boards lightly bowed. Small ding to upper rear board and corner. Binding tight, inner pages crisp and clean.; 12.20 X 10 X 0.70 inches.
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New in Fine jacket. Book. 10 1/4 By 12 1/4" Very slight shelfware to DJ and top edge slightly curled. No damage to book, A collaboration between the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art....
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