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Book cover of 'African Art Now' featuring a portrait of a Black man in a yellow shirt with a vase of flowers on the table in the foreground.
Painting of a young Black girl in a yellow shirt standing in a city scene with yellow cars behind her. Above the image in white text reads 'engaging profiles written by author and curator Osei Bonsu'.
A photograph of a colorful jungle scene with two figures obscured by rainbow materials. The central figure is posed on a zebra and is covered in rainbow balloons and is wearing pink tights and black high heels. The second figure is standing on the right and is wearing a rainbow at and is covered with a patchwork of multicolored pieces of cloth. Above the photograph is text in white that reads 'featuring some of the most exciting artists working today'.
A painting of a group of Black people featuring a man in yellow on the left who is wearing a yellow shirt and holding a bouquet of red roses, a figure in the middle who is facing away from the viewer and is wearing a blue shirt, and a woman on the right who is crying and is being embraced by the figure in blue. Above the painting in white text is written 'the definitive guide to contemporary African art'.
Wadsworth Atheneum

African Art Now

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With African artists attracting sizable audience numbers to museums, setting sky-high auction records, and appearing in mainstream press, it has become impossible to overlook the cultural significance of contemporary African art today. Author and curator Osei Bonsu's engaging profiles of leading African artists—along with gorgeous full-color reproductions of their work—introduce readers to a generation of movers and shakers whose innovative artwork reflects on Africa as both an idea and an experience. Using diverse forms, languages, and expressions to articulate what it means to be a part of the world, these artists generate alternate histories and imaginative futures—work that is both personal and political, universal and incredibly specific. Their work helps define contemporary African art as a vast artistic and cultural movement.

Publisher: ‎ Chronicle Books

Author: Osei Bonsu

240 pages

Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1797217208