Note: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Smithsonian Museum's National Museum of African Art, and Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Smithsonian Museum's National Museum of African Art, and Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Exhibition catalog of a traveling exhibition of the same name , Foreword , Acknowledgments , Notes on fashioning art across Africa , Introducing African-print fashion , Part I. African-print cloth: origins and transformations ; Dutch wax classics: the designs introduced by Ebenezer Brown Fleming circa 1890/1912 and their legacy , Design at Vlisco , Designing for wax prints at ABC , African prints/African ownership: on naming, values, and classics , African prints made in Europe , "Bringing fabrics to life": Akosombo Textiles Limited of Ghana , African prints made in Africa , African-print cloth in Abidjan: a success story , Real/Fake: brands, labels, and China in West Africa , African prints made in Asia: China, India, and Pakistan , Part II. Fashioning identities, expanding styles ; Portraits in print , "Life" dressing in Kumasi: African-print style in "popular" fashion , Nsaasaawa: Ghanaian patchwork from the kitchen to the catwalk , From grandmother's dress to the fashion runway: Chitenge styles in Zambia , Ankara Fashions in Nigeria , Shopping in Abidjan with Saundra Lang , Voices on the runway: African prints and African fashion designers , Claire Kane Guaranteed Wax Collection and the photography of Omar Victor Diop , Part III. New directions ; Vlisco--rebranding into fashion , Re-dressing the past: Vlisco's entry into post-apartheid South Africa , Designing futures: virtual communities and fashion weeks push African-print fashion forward , The eternal return of fashion: Angelina, the dashiki, and twenty-first-century African fashion , From colonialism to hip-hop style: African-print fashion in Senegal , In the making: African-print fashion and contemporary art , Cloth, dress, and drama

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages (pages 355-357)

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages (pages 355-357)

Note: Includes artist's statements by Wangechi Mutu, Clive Van den Berg, Alan deSouza and George Osodi , Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-307) and index , Catalog of an exhibition "Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, April 22 through January 5, 2014 , Chapter 1. The Material EarthChapter 2. The Power of the EarthThe Power of Earth in My Work , Chapter 3. Imagining the UndergroundBreaking Surface , Chapter 4. Strategies of the SurfaceWhere You Looking At? , Chapter 5. Art as Environmental ActionMatter, Eco-Ethics, and Composite Space: Thoughts on My Pictorial Compositions , Chapter 6. Earth Works.