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Black Artists Shaping the World
ISBN: 9780500652596
(HB - E)
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Written by award-winning Black British childrenÆs author Sharna Jackson, Black Artists Shaping the World celebrates the diversity of work being produced today by Black artists from around the globe, introducing young readers to thirty contemporary artists from Africa and of the African diaspora.
Sharna JacksonÆs experience as a childrenÆs author who has worked for over a decade in the cultural sector, both at Tate in London and at Site Gallery in Sheffield, is combined here with the curatorial expertise of Dr ZoÚ Whitley, Director of LondonÆs Chisenhale Gallery and co-curator of the landmark Tate exhibition æSoul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black PowerÆ. Their book features artists working in a variety of media from painting, sculpture and drawing to ceramics, installation art and sound art. Artists featured include British Turner Prize-winning painters Lubaina Himid and Chris Ofili, renowned South African visual activist Zanele Muholi, Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh, Sudanese painter
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