Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons, and the Blues

by Amalia Amaki, Leslie King-Hammond, Andrea D. Barnwell, et al.

For more than three decades, Amalia Amaki has garnered critical acclaim for works that examine the beauty, music, experience, and contributions of African Americans. This volume brings together her photographs, quilts, souvenir fans, and mixed-media works. Incorporating fabric, beads, pearls, buttons, paint, glitter, and photographs with cultural symbols and visual puns, Amaki challenges and reconfigures American history in original and meaningful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295985410
• ISBN13: 9780295985411
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.1" x 12.3"