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Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica

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The Art Institute of Chicago and
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona

Purchase from the Art Institute Museum Shop

Available to booksellers from Yale University Press

Since the term “Pan-Africanism” was coined around 1900, the movement’s promise has been to foster liberation and solidarity for Black peoples worldwide. Focusing on its cultural expression, this book presents a rich selection of the visual, sonic, and other creative forms that have emerged throughout Pan-Africanism’s evolution. Among the nearly two hundred artists represented from across the continent and the African diaspora are Beauford Delaney, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Hoyt William Fuller, Wifredo Lam, Simone Leigh, Ernest Mancoba, Zanele Muholi, Kawira Mwirichia, Cauleen Smith, Alma Thomas, and George Albert Yon.

Reflecting Pan-Africanism’s ideals of diversity and dialogue as well as its aspirations to egalitarianism, essays from more than a dozen scholars, artists, and practitioners speak to a range of themes and places. They discuss works in all forms of media, addressing the magazines, movies, and music as well as the fine art of this enduring movement.

Edited by Antawan I. Byrd, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Adom Getachew, and Matthew S. Witkovsky 

384 pages, 9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.
372 color illus.

Hardcover $65 ($60 members)
ISBN: 978-0-300-278996

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