art collections

"The full, frank story of a remarkable life's journey-to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace-made possible above all by a family's love"--Provided by publisher.

"Accompanied by photographs of 266 masks, the largest representation of traditional polychrome masks from the Temne people of Sierra Leone and the Anang (Ibibio) people of Nigeria are documented here, as well as one of the largest published collections of articulated masks from the Ogoni people of Nigeria"--Dust jacket.

Showcases two hundred pieces of Japanese art created during the Edo period from the 2007 Price collection displayed at the Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., featuring screens, hanging scrolls, fans, and more.

Reproduces sixty-six works of African-American art from the Paul R. Jones collection, and includes ten essays in which contributors discuss collage and photomontage, discursive modernism, color, photography and printmaking, and other topics.

Presents color reproductions of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by twenty-seven self-taught African-American artists from the Southern U.S., and includes essays that explore the themes and meaning of the work.