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How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
Work by black artists today is almost uniformly understood in terms of its "blackness," with audiences often expecting or requiring it to "represent" the race....
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I Too Sing America
The Harlem Renaissance at 100
I Too Sing America
The Harlem Renaissance at 100
Winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History, I Too Sing America offers a major survey on the...
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Indigenous Histories
Centuries of art celebrating a global panorama of Indigenous cultures Continuing the work of the acclaimed Afro-Atlantic Histories, this publication from the Museu de Arte de...
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JAM
The Process as Art, 1974 to the Present
JAM
The Process as Art, 1974 to the Present
An archival dive with fresh interpretations of the legendary New York gallery and cultural laboratory that catalyzed collaboration among Black artists and their counterparts of...
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Kara Walker
(October Files)
Selected texts that survey the full range of Kara Walker's artistic practice, emphasizing the work itself rather than the debates and controversies around it. Kara...
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L.A. Object
& David Hammons Body Prints
L.A. Object
& David Hammons Body Prints
L.A. Object offers a historical overview of the Los Angeles assemblage movement of the 1960s and 70s. It focuses on works by primarily African-American artists often...
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Multiplicity
Blackness in Contemporary American Collage
Multiplicity
Blackness in Contemporary American Collage
An engaging introduction to contemporary Black American collage brings together art by fifty artists that reflects the breadth and complexity of Black identity Building on...
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Music Is History
Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove offers a thrilling, music-driven ride through the last fifty years of American history. In Music Is History, bestselling author...
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for the homie who invites you to art openings
Noah Davis
In Detail
Designed as a companion volume to the hugely successful monograph Noah Davis, this publication offers further insight into the impact and legacy of the revolutionary Los...
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for the friend with the wildest thoughts
Noah Davis
The Journal
Featuring the lush, powerful paintings of Noah Davis, this blank book--the latest in The Artist Journals series--offers the ideal forum to energize the inner artist or writer....
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Now You See Me
An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design
Now You See Me
An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design
Previously marginalized, overlooked, or even erased from history, Black designers are finally given their due in this first book to celebrate a century of ground-breaking...
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On Whiteness
The Racial Imaginary Institute
On Whiteness
The Racial Imaginary Institute
Writers and thinkers from Lauren Berlant to Jeff Chang explore the power structures, the "neutrality" and the frailty of whiteness Cofounded in 2017 by authors...
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Open Questions
Thirty Years of Writing about Art
Open Questions
Thirty Years of Writing about Art
An illustrated reader featuring a collection of essays from trailblazing curator and writer Helen Molesworth - the first book of her collected writingsOver the past...
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Paul R. Williams
Classic Hollywood Style (Back-Order, Nov 28 2023)
Paul R. Williams
Classic Hollywood Style (Back-Order, Nov 28 2023)
Over a career spanning six decades, architect Paul Revere Williams came to define what gracious living looked like for the Hollywood elite. Williams mastered an...
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Pharrell
Carbon, Pressure & Time: A Book of Jewels
Pharrell
Carbon, Pressure & Time: A Book of Jewels
With pieces drawn from the extensive personal collection of Pharrell Williams, this is a stunning and unprecedented exploration of the "bling" in hip-hop culture and...
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Rapper's Deluxe
How Hip Hop Made The World
Rapper's Deluxe
How Hip Hop Made The World
A visual and cultural history of hip hop, charting its meteoric rise from underground trailblazer to global tastemaker To tell the story of contemporary American...
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Regarding Paul R. Williams
A Photographer's View
Sold outRegarding Paul R. Williams
A Photographer's View
Janna Ireland, an award-winning photographer, presents a collection of stunning, intimate black-and-white photographs of the work of Paul Revere Williams, who was known as “Hollywood’s...
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Regeneration
Black Cinema, 1898–1971
Regeneration
Black Cinema, 1898–1971
The overlooked yet vibrant history of Black participation in American film, from the beginning of cinema through the civil rights movement From the dawn of...
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Sargent Claude Johnson
A rich reappraisal of a key Black American modernist through a lens of cross-cultural engagement Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967) was the first Black modernist on...
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Separate Cinema
The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art
Separate Cinema
The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art
This magnificent volume is a celebration of the first 100 years of Black film poster art. A visual feast, these images recount the diverse and...
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Sista Said
Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts (Pre-Order, June 18 2024)
Sista Said
Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts (Pre-Order, June 18 2024)
Two sets of 20 unique letterpress postcards featuring quotes by iconic Black women, from Audre Lorde to Octavia Butler This freshly commissioned set of postcards...
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Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers
Black Artists from the American South
Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers
Black Artists from the American South
A wide-ranging survey of Black art in the American South, from Thornton Dial and Nellie Mae Rowe to the quilters of Gee’s Bend For generations,...
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for the local art historian
South of Pico
African American Artist in Los Angeles in the 1960's and 1970's In South of Pico, Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during...
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Strikethrough
Typographic Messages of Protest
Strikethrough
Typographic Messages of Protest
A powerful new exploration of the uses of lettering, type and design to amplify resistance and inspire change―from 19th-century antislavery broadsides to the "Silence =...
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