CV

Publications (selected)

1970         African Arts of Transformation                              Triple-R Press, Santa Barbara

1972         African Art & Leadership (w/ D. Fraser)                Univ. of Wisconsin Press

1974        “Vital Arts in Northern Kenya,” African Arts, VII, 2, pp. 15-23, 78

1975        “The History of Ibo Mbari Houses: Facts and Theories,” in African Images: Essays in African Iconology, D.
               McCall & E. Bay (eds), Africana Pub. N.Y., pp. 104-132

1975        “The Art of Festival in Ghana,”African Arts, VII, 3, pp. 12-23,         60-62, 90

1977        The Arts of Ghana (w/ D.H. Ross)                          Museum of Cultural History, UCLA

1982        Mbari: Art and Life among the Owerri Igbo             Indiana University Press, Bloomington

1983        Male and Female: Couples in African Sculpture     Los Angeles County Museum of Art
              (essay, exhibition brochure)

1984        Riders of Power in African Sculpture                      Los Angeles County Museum of Art
              (essay, exhibition brochure)

1984        Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos                         Museum of Cultural History, UCLA
              (w/ C. Aniakor)

1985        I Am Not Myself: The Art of African Masquerade     Museum of Cultural History, UCLA


1985       The Mother and Child in African Sculpture               Los Angeles County Museum of Art
              (essay, exhibition brochure)

1985      “The Art and Technology of Field Photography in Africa,” African Arts, XVII, 4, pp. 46-55, 98-99, (w/ D.H. Ross

1986       Beauty and the Beast: A Comparison of Two Igbo Masquerades (34 minutes videotape), shot and
              narrated by Cole, produced by K Morell, African Encounters, Univ. of WA

1988       “The Survival and Impact of Mbari,” African Arts, XXI, 2, pp54-65, 96

1989       Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa              Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C

1998       “The Mother and Child in World Art” in Mutter und Kind, an exhibition at the Hubert Goote Gallery,
              Zug, Switzerland

2001       A History of Art in Africa (3 chapters, 6                     Abrams & Prentice Hall, N.Y.
              mini-essays, with M. Visona, R. Poynor,
              and M. Harris.)

2002       “The Mother and Child in African Art,” in Perpetuating the Culture: African Images of the Mother and Child,
              Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville, N.Y.

plus approximately 50 other essays, chapters, catalogue entries, etc., in varied publications