Hair in African Art and Culture
Catalog to the recent show at the Museum for African Art and other American venues. "Introduces the role of hair as a mark of social identity and as aesthetic expression, with a selection of photographs, figurative sculptures and masks." Includes text and photographs on hairdressers' signs.
Edited by Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman
Contributions by Niangi Butulukisi, Elze Bruyninx, Els De Palmenaar, Kennell Jackson, Manuel Jordan, Babatunde Lawal, Karel Nel, Mariama Ross, William Siegmann, Barbara Thompson, and James H. Vaughan
Museum for African Art, New York
Published by Prestel Verlag
Munich, London, New York, 2000
$65 (hardcover)
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Crowning Achievements: African Arts of Dressing the Hair
Catalog to the important show curated by the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at UCLA, which travelled to the Smithsonian and other venues. Features essays on African hairstyles, hats, headwraps and artifacts - headrests, combs, hair-pins etc.- relating to the hair. Includes a chapter on hairdressers' signs with extensive photographs.
Mary Jo Arnoldi and Christine Mullen Kreamer
Contributions by Michael Oladejo Afolayan, Betty Wass, Elisabeth L. Cameron, Patricia Darish and David A. Binkley
Museum for African Art, New York
Published by Fowler Museum of Cultural History,
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, 1995
$29.95 (paperback)
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Joe's Hair That Talks:
The Vibrant Sign Culture of Ghana
Written by Greg Coyle
Designed by Jason Wen
Published by Women in Progress, 2009
128 pages
$38 (hardcover) |
African Signs
Written by Rob Floor
Designed by Gert Van Zanten
w/ introduction by Paul Faber - Senior Curator Africa at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
Published by KIT Publishers
Haarlem, Netherlands, 2010
208 pages
$49 (hardcover) |
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