Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was: Ming Smith’s poetic and experimental images are icons of twentieth-century African American life. One of the greatest artist-photographers working today, Smith moved to New York in the 1970s and began to make images charged with startling beauty and... MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was:
LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: The Notion of Family, offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America’s small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania. The work also considers the impact of that decline on the community and on... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was:
Upcoming Exhibition Noah Davis MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community. American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015) believed... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was:
Wifredo Lam MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was: A specialized monograph on the artist whose importance has finally been recognized, given clarity by recent biographical research. This beautifully illustrated book, the first monograph on Wifredo Lam since 1989, provides a comprehensive... MSRP: Now: $75.00 Was:
Tschabalala Self - Make Room MSRP: Now: $83.00 Was: First monograph of the African-American artist, renowned for her representations of black femininity, whose spectacular pop patchworks deconstruct and recompose the everyday feminine/masculine relationship in its domestic dimension, with seven essays and... MSRP: Now: $83.00 Was:
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers MSRP: Now: $65.00 Was: From his early self-portraits to his site-specific installations, this volume underscores Rashid Johnson's fearless engagement with the central themes, questions and aesthetics of the contemporary era Co-organized by the Guggenheim New York and the... MSRP: Now: $65.00 Was:
Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: Both personal and universal, Harris’ oeuvre weaves together legacies of family dynamics, queer histories and Afro-cosmopolitanism Gathering photographs, assemblages, video installations and archival selections from his celebrated and lesser-known series,... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was:
Adam Pendleton: Blackness, White, and Light MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was: A colossal survey of Pendleton’s classic works, together with newly created color silkscreens New York-based artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) uses letters, words, drips, splashes, sprays and collected images as primary materials in his... MSRP: Now: $50.00 Was:
Fighting for Freedom Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: As the companion to the exhibition, Fighting for Freedom places Black craftspeople at the forefront of American history, from before the Revolutionary War through the Civil War and beyond Reconstruction. Delving into diverse narratives of creativity,... MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was:
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys MSRP: Now: $69.95 Was: 'An encyclopedic necessity for anyone interested in contemporary art.' - Vanity Fair 'We want people to see themselves… We want you to see the giants on whose shoulders we stand.' - Alicia Keys Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz... MSRP: Now: $69.95 Was:
Amy Sherald: The World We Make MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings. Sherald rose... MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was:
Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space MSRP: Now: $49.95 Was: Tender yet compelling, Johnson's portraits of herself, her friends and her relatives are touchstones of Black figuration. A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson (born 1959) creates large-scale drawings of Black people... MSRP: Now: $49.95 Was:
African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century Osei Bonsu MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was: This deluxe hardcover survey, featuring profiles of 50 artists on the rise, is the definitive guide to contemporary African art. With African artists attracting sizable audience numbers to museums, setting sky-high auction records, and appearing in... MSRP: Now: $55.00 Was:
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance MSRP: Now: $39.95 Was: Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer’s activism The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924–87) considered himself a “witness” as he challenged perspectives on America and its history through his work... MSRP: Now: $39.95 Was:
Reframing the Black Figure MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was: This visual gift book introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. The selections included in this brief introduction... MSRP: Now: $19.95 Was:
Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic - Ekphrasis Series MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Larry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was:
Art Essentials: History of African Art MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was: This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 75,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the... MSRP: Now: $18.95 Was:
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art MSRP: Now: $34.99 Was: Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking. Beyoncé and Jay-Z break the internet by blending modern Black culture with fine art in their iconic music video filmed in the Louvre. Kehinde Wiley powerfully... MSRP: Now: $34.99 Was:
Between Worlds the Art of Bill Traylor MSRP: Now: $85.00 Was: Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born into slavery on an Alabama plantation, and his experiences spanned multiple... MSRP: Now: $85.00 Was:
Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was: Exploring the art and life of this important American artist whose work bridged the gaps between abstraction, feminism, and Blackness Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction is a fascinating examination of the multifaceted career of artist, activist,... MSRP: Now: $60.00 Was:
