Art of the Weya Women, The


Release date : Wednesday 01 january 1992
Genre : Fine & illustrated book

Book ISBN number : 0908311508
Pages : 184

Year : 1992
Column : Fine arts

Winner of the German Foundation for Book Art and Design, best designed book from developing countries. This beautifully produced book, with many vivid colour photographs, is a collaboration between rural African women and a European artist. Through their art, the women revealed aspects of their lives and traditions. They talk about their work in the captions that run alongside the colour photographs of the best of their artwork. In the accompanying text, the women talk about their worlds of marriage and children, sexuality and death, spirits and ancestors, hopes and worries.

54,95$
32,95£
format : 297 x 210 mm

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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