African Art

The Africa Center, an important publisher in the field, has digitized all of its books and exhibition catalogs. Use this site to search the full-text of these influential titles.

Use to locate the earliest available documentation of African art collected in the west. This archive contains full-text and images published before 1923 that describe objects brought out of Africa into Europe and North America. Works depicted include (when know), current location, people or country, etc.

A collaborative international digitization project of 18 partner institutions from the Caribbean region to document their diverse historical & cultural legacies. Collections from academic libraries, private collections, & archives. "Collection groups" include map collections, newspaper collections, teaching guides, “Partner collections,” “Haitian Law,” “Panama & the Canal,” & “News.” Browsing: sorted categorically, including by format (maps, newspapers, books, photographs etc.) & thematic groups (culture, science & medicine, law, slavery & resistance, etc.). There are also several dozen featured special collections & exhibits. Searching is easy and intuitive; options are listed on home page. Searches can be limited by language, publisher, topic, geographic area, and genre.

For journal articles start with African Arts, the premier journal in the field. The art library owns the entire run from 1967 to the current issue; it is also available as an ejournal from multiple vendors.

Search Nka for scholarly articles on work by contemporary African and African Diaspora artists. Nka also includes exhibition and book reviews, interviews, and roundtable discussions.

Maintained by Prof. of African Art Mark DeLancey, DePaul University, these bibliographies build upon Janet L. Stanley's 3 volume Arts of Africa: an annotated bibliography.

Annotated list of the best books in the field, covering African and the African diaspora. Compiled by Janet Stanley, Librarian, at the National Museum of African Art.