BIBLIOGRAPHY of both conventionally printed texts and Internet publications
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There is not much in print about Zambian visual art, apart from items in newspapers and magazines.
First uploaded: 16 Feb 2016
Updated: 21 February 2016
Deregowski, J.B.
Pictorial Art in Zambia. In: African Arts, 1971, Vol. 4, no 2:37-8, 80. The author (a psychologist) argues that there is not much in the way of Zambian pictorial art.
Ellison, Gabriel
Art in Zambia. 2004, Lusaka, Bookworld Publishers. This book to date is the only book with a broad coverage of the subject. Addresses broad non-specialist audience. Produced by the Zambia National Visual Arts Council, beautifully laid out by Graphicam (the company of Andrew Macromalis). Written by one of Zambia’s prominent artists, with extensive support of the VAC Book Project Committee.
Jules-Rosette, B.
The Potters and the Painters: Art by and about Women in Urban Africa. In: Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1977, Vol. 4, no2: 112-27.
Images of Modernity in Popular African Painting. 1979a, unpublished paper.
Art and Ideology: The Communicative Significance of some Urban Art Forms in Africa. In: Semiotica, 1979b Vol. 28, no 1 & 2: 1-29.
Littlefield Kasfir, Sidney and Till Förster (eds.)
African Art and Agency in the Workshop (African Expressive Cultures series). 2013 Indiana U.P. Reviewed by Andrew Mulenga in 2016 in his Hole in the Wall.
Littlefield Kasfir, Sidney
African Art and the Colonial Encounter. Inventing a global commodity. 2007, Indiana U.P.
Macmillan, Hugh
Stephen Kappata, artist with a democratic vision. Paper presented at history workshop: “Democracy: popular precedents, practice, culture.” 1994, University of Witwatersrand Conference publication.
The Life and Art of Stephen Kappata’, African Arts, winter 1997, pp. 20 - 31, 93 – 4.
Mbuya Yombwe, Agness
She is not an Artist. 2016, 140 pp. Autobiography plus essay by William Miko produced by Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, Livingstone, Zambia.
Mubitana, A.K.
Pictorial Arts in Zambia. African Arts, 1974, Vol 7, no 2: 80-1. Mubitana was the first Zambian director of the Livingstone Museum. His article is a response to Deregowski (1971).
Pictorial Arts in Zambia (a propos). African Arts, 1975, Vol 8, no 1: 83-4. More response to Deregowski (1971).
Setti, Godfrey
2000. An analysis of the contribution of four painters to the development of contemporary Zambian painting from 1950-1997. M.A. thesis for Rhodes University. Internet published in 2001 and can be accessed and downloaded in pdf format via: http://contentpro.seals.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1002218
Witkamp, Gijsbert
Henry Tayali and Fakson Kulya: Academic and folk art in Zambia of the seventies and eighties. 2013, edited 2015. Internet publication at: http://www.zfactorart.com/artists-tayali--kulya-part-1.html
SPECIAL Catalogues
Lechwe Trust
Exhibition catalogue, Lusaka National Museum, 21st September – 29th October 2000. Provides some information about the Lechwe Trust and activities supported by the Trust.
Lechwe Trust Collection. 2004.Lists artists of the Trust’s portfolio with brief description and itemizes collected works.
Updated: 21 February 2016
Deregowski, J.B.
Pictorial Art in Zambia. In: African Arts, 1971, Vol. 4, no 2:37-8, 80. The author (a psychologist) argues that there is not much in the way of Zambian pictorial art.
Ellison, Gabriel
Art in Zambia. 2004, Lusaka, Bookworld Publishers. This book to date is the only book with a broad coverage of the subject. Addresses broad non-specialist audience. Produced by the Zambia National Visual Arts Council, beautifully laid out by Graphicam (the company of Andrew Macromalis). Written by one of Zambia’s prominent artists, with extensive support of the VAC Book Project Committee.
Jules-Rosette, B.
The Potters and the Painters: Art by and about Women in Urban Africa. In: Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1977, Vol. 4, no2: 112-27.
Images of Modernity in Popular African Painting. 1979a, unpublished paper.
Art and Ideology: The Communicative Significance of some Urban Art Forms in Africa. In: Semiotica, 1979b Vol. 28, no 1 & 2: 1-29.
Littlefield Kasfir, Sidney and Till Förster (eds.)
African Art and Agency in the Workshop (African Expressive Cultures series). 2013 Indiana U.P. Reviewed by Andrew Mulenga in 2016 in his Hole in the Wall.
Littlefield Kasfir, Sidney
African Art and the Colonial Encounter. Inventing a global commodity. 2007, Indiana U.P.
Macmillan, Hugh
Stephen Kappata, artist with a democratic vision. Paper presented at history workshop: “Democracy: popular precedents, practice, culture.” 1994, University of Witwatersrand Conference publication.
The Life and Art of Stephen Kappata’, African Arts, winter 1997, pp. 20 - 31, 93 – 4.
Mbuya Yombwe, Agness
She is not an Artist. 2016, 140 pp. Autobiography plus essay by William Miko produced by Wayi Wayi Art Studio and Gallery, Livingstone, Zambia.
Mubitana, A.K.
Pictorial Arts in Zambia. African Arts, 1974, Vol 7, no 2: 80-1. Mubitana was the first Zambian director of the Livingstone Museum. His article is a response to Deregowski (1971).
Pictorial Arts in Zambia (a propos). African Arts, 1975, Vol 8, no 1: 83-4. More response to Deregowski (1971).
Setti, Godfrey
2000. An analysis of the contribution of four painters to the development of contemporary Zambian painting from 1950-1997. M.A. thesis for Rhodes University. Internet published in 2001 and can be accessed and downloaded in pdf format via: http://contentpro.seals.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1002218
Witkamp, Gijsbert
Henry Tayali and Fakson Kulya: Academic and folk art in Zambia of the seventies and eighties. 2013, edited 2015. Internet publication at: http://www.zfactorart.com/artists-tayali--kulya-part-1.html
SPECIAL Catalogues
Lechwe Trust
Exhibition catalogue, Lusaka National Museum, 21st September – 29th October 2000. Provides some information about the Lechwe Trust and activities supported by the Trust.
Lechwe Trust Collection. 2004.Lists artists of the Trust’s portfolio with brief description and itemizes collected works.
