Product Description: "Transatlantic Dialogue" opens an exciting cultural dialogue at the crossroads where Western and African art traditions intersect. Despite diversity of media, technique, and form, these contemporary African and African American art works and the artists who created them are united by a rich network of connections, exchanges, and associations generated from both shores of the Middle Passage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The National Museum of African Art began as a private educational institution in 1964 and became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1979. This volume includes highlights from the museum's holdings of traditional African art from throughout the continent, although the majority of works originated in sub-Saharan Africa...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Shows examples of tomb figures, posts, ancestor figures, masks, chairs, stools, cups, boxes, and doors and describes the background of each work (view table of contents)

Shows pendants, spoons, figurines, and plaques, describes how the bronzes were made, and discusses the Benin society