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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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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NF, except for ex-library markings: spine label (one dj) and pencil notation behind title page. Blue cloth with gilt, blue pictorial dj with mylar cover; 135 pp.; . Published for an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts June 10-September 25, 2005. Includes essays, a catalogue of the exhibition, a checklist and a biography.
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New. 0295985410. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--136 pp. With 118 ills. (115 col. ). 31 x 25 cm. --with a bonus offer--
