Monographs Marking Change – Modern and Contemporary African Artists

Authored by Kris Juncker

This monograph on Victor Ekpuk is one of many volumes dedicated to Modern and Contemporary African artists in Smithsonian Libraries’ collections.

Janet Stanley, Librarian at the National Museum of African Art, has been actively collecting monographs dedicated to the lives and work of Modern and Contemporary African artists for four decades. Around 2013, Stanley began to maintain the annotated bibliography, “Monographs on African Artists,” online. The purpose of the collection is to communicate the important twentieth and twenty-first-century stories of artists who have a global impact.

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