Aaron Slater's Big Project Book for Astonishing Artists
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Andrea Beaty An inspiring, hands-on book about art, creativity, and how we see the world--featuring the newest Questioneer, Aaron Slater! Make art of all sorts in this... ArtBooks
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White Shoes
Nona Faustine White Shoes is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York that were central to the city’s once pivotal – and now largely... ArtBooks
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Beautiful, Still.
Colby Deal Beautiful, Still. is the first monograph from photographer Colby Deal, documenting the people, objects, and environments of everyday life in the Third Ward neighborhood in Houston,... Art$55.00
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Deana Lawson
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Contact High
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Martine Syms: Neural Swamp
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Martine Syms New commissioned work by an important American contemporary artist using a multidisciplinary approach to examine issues of race and identityProduced for the Future Fields Commission... ArtBooks
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Frida Orupabo
Frida Orupabo The first full monograph on Frida Orupabo, with images of her collages on paper and aluminum, digital prints, and a new visual essay by the... ArtBooks
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Hebru Brantley
with Pharrell Williams (Pre-Order, Oct 11 2022)
Hebru Brantley The first book on Chicago-born Hebru Brantley, the preeminent African American pop artist of his generation, whose work is hot and in demand in the... ArtBooks
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Maybe an Artist
A Graphic Memoir (Pre-Order, Oct 4 2022)
Liz Montague A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir from one of the first Black female cartoonists to be published in the New Yorker, when she was just... ArtAutobiography & Memoir
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Illustrated Black History
Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen (Pre-Order, Sep 27 2022)
George McCalman A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers—famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and more—with biographical reflections, all created and curated... ArtBooks
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AphroChic (Pre-Order, Nov 15 2022)
Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home
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There's Light
Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-being
Glenn Lutz There's Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-being is a collection of over sixty artworks from contemporary art legends and emerging talents,... ArtBooks
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In the Black Fantastic
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Ekow Eshun A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent. A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture... ArtBooks
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Kandis Williams
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Kandis Williams The inaugural volume in a new series of books, Kandis Williams documents the Los Angeles–based artist’s exhibition A Line. Interrogating issues of race, nationalism, authority, and eroticism, her... ArtBooks
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New Growth
The Art and Texture of Black Hair (Pre-Order, Jan 20 2023)
Jasmine Nichole Cobb From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured... ArtBooks
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Amoako Boafo
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Amoako Boafo The first monograph on the sinuous, exhilaratingly colorful and pattern-filled portraiture of Amoako Boafo Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo has built a practice synthesizing the ways... ArtPre-Order
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SEEN Journal
Issue 004
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Sadie Barnette
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Sadie Barnette Sadie Barnette's celebratory installations explore collective and familial histories in glittering, speculative spaces Oakland-based multimedia artist Sadie Barnette (born 1984) has made groundbreaking explorations of... ArtBooks
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Wake
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Janiva Ellis
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Black Internet Effect
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Hank Willis Thomas
All Things Being Equal
Hank Willis Thomas Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal presents a survey of the artist's prolific and extraordinary interdisciplinary career, incorporating all aspects of his art, with a... ArtNon-Fiction
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Art's Next Generation
Phaidon The most exciting rising stars in contemporary art - who's who and what's next - featuring 107 artists born since 1980, as chosen by a... ArtNon-Fiction
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I Am Sparkling
N.V. Parekh & His Portrait Studio Clients: Mombasa, Kenya, 1940-1980
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JAM
The Process as Art, 1974 to the Present (Pre-Order, Oct 25, 2022)
Various Artists 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... AntiracismArt
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Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971
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Various Authors 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... ArtBooks
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Carrie Mae Weems
A Great Turn in the Possible (Pre-Order, Dec 06, 2022)
Carrie Mae Weems The most comprehensive survey of Weems' genre-defying oeuvre yet published One of the most influential American artists working today, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated narratives... ArtBooks
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Carrie Mae Weems
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Henry Taylor: B Side
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Henry Taylor Painting on canvases, cereal boxes and cigarette packs, Taylor creates a grand pageant of contemporary Black life in America Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor's... ArtBooks
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Noah Davis: In Detail
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Noah Davis 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... ArtBooks
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African Textiles
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John Gillow The traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles covers, as no other volume has, the handmade... Art$34.95
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White Terror
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Aesthetics of Excess
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Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen
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Ghetto Gastro Knowledge Is Power Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Created with big Bronx energy, Black Power Kitchen combines 75 mostly plant-based, layered-with-flavor recipes with immersive storytelling, diverse voices, and... ArtAutobiography & Memoir
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Shikeith: Notes Towards Becoming a Spill
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Shikeith The first monograph by sculptor, filmmaker, and photographer Shikeith, Notes towards Becoming a Spill brings together a series of striking studio portraits of Black male subjects as... ArtBooks
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L.A. Object
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Caribbean Art
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Veerle Poupeye An updated and expanded edition of this classic, illustrated survey of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over 100 artists from the period of colonialism... ArtBooks
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Tomashi Jackson
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Enunciated Life
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Theaster Gates
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Freedom, Rhythm & Sound
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Nigeria
The Cover Art of Nigerian Music (Pre-Order, April 25 2023)
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Dancehall
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Suzanne Jackson
Five Decades (Back-Order, June 12 2022)
Suzanne Jackson Painter of vibrant assemblages and champion of African American art, Suzanne Jackson receives her first monograph Published on the occasion of the first full-career survey... ArtBooks
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A to Z of Caribbean Art
Various Artists A to Z of Caribbean Art is a visual overview of Caribbean art, from the beginning of the 20th century to now, and serves as a... ArtBooks
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Theaster Gates
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Killing Poetry
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Theaster Gates
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Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts
Thinking about History with the Block's Collection (Special Order, Additional Processing Required)
Kate Hadley Toftness & Essi Rönkkö Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts invites readers to think critically about how artists, artworks, and museums engage with narratives of the past. Richly illustrated and... ArtBooks
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SKEW Magazine
Issue 03 (Black Abundance)
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Kerry James Marshall
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Freedom Dreams (20th Anniversary)
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Robin D. G. Kelley The 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley’s influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a... ArtBooks
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Reimagining Design
Unlocking Strategic Innovation (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
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The Black Experience in Design
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Various Authors The Black Experience in Design spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens.Excluded from traditional design history and educational canons that heavily... ArtNon-Fiction
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Latinx Photography in the United States
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Mel D. Cole
American Protest: Photographs 2020-2021
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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?
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Somaya Critchlow
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Dream in Color
30 Posters of Power, 30 Black Creatives (Pre-Order, Aug 9 2022)
Tré Seals This large-format book features 30 removable posters by 30 inspiring Black creatives from around the world. Artists and designers such as the London-based muralist Lakwena... ArtBooks
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