<p>For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with political independence arriving for most peoples only in the last 50 years. "The Short Century" is a broad survey of cultural life in Africa from the independence movements through the post-colonial era to the end of apartheid in 1994. Expansive, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated, this book studies achievements in all areas of the performing and fine arts, photography, literature, theatre, architecture, music, and film.</p>

The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994

Arts & Photography

Museum Villa Stuck

History & Criticism

Prestel Pub

<p>This book brings the beautiful and controversial images of the esoteric camera artist Fred Holland Day back to the attention of the international audience which was both thrilled and scandalized by this same work in 1900. Fred Holland Day (1864-1933) was born in South Dedham, Massachusetts, into a family of wealth and social responsibility. By 1900 he was, with Alfred Stieglitz, the most influential champion and practitioner of art photography in America and Europe. Day, because of the challenging nature of much of his subject matter--sacred religious themes, draped and nude male figures--enjoyed a slightly edgier and more heightened reputation. Influenced by William Morris, Day established a publishing house in Boston in 1893 encouraging young and unusual authors, among them Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. At the same time he was becoming ever more involved in photography, sometimes using as models the talented immigrant boys whose education he sponsored, most notably the young Lebanese immigrant Kahlil Gibran. In 1904 Day's studio burned, destroying his negatives; the photographs in museums today are from Day's home or friends' collections, especially Stieglitz and the British photographer Frederick Evans. The book includes essays by Pam Roberts, Anne E. Havinga, Verna Posever Curtis, and Edwin Becker.</p>

F. Holland Day

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

Becker, Edwin

Roberts, Pam

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Havinga, Anne E.

Curtis, Verna Posever

Day, F. Holland

Photography & Video

W-Books

The Origins Of L'art Nouveau - The Bing Empire

Weisberg, Gabriel P.

Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh

Possémé, Évelyne

Bing, Siegfried

Musée Des Arts Décoratifs (france)

Caixaforum (barcelona, Spain)

Art Nouveau Bing (firm)

Mercatorfonds

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