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Black Art Books

Black Art Books

This Black History Month, we're spotlighting influential Black artists and Black Art History with a selection of our favorite books.

Browse monographs from local artists like Howardena Pindell and Horace Pippin alongside art theory and essay books like "Any Day Now" by Larry Neal and "Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art" by Ekow Eshun.

For more titles in conversation with the Black experience, check out our Noah Davis capsule.

  • Tschabalala Self - Make Room Tschabalala Self - Make Room

    Tschabalala Self - Make Room

    $83.00
    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...
    $83.00
  • Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

    Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

    $65.00
    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...
    $65.00
  • Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art

    Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art

    $60.00
    A vibrant contemporary art anthology that explores the complex ties between race, climate crisis, and colonialism by over 150 leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American, and Native American identity. Black Earth Rising presents works by artists...
    $60.00
  • Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love

    Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love

    $50.00
    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,...
    $50.00
  • Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

    Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

    $69.95
    '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...
    $69.95
  • Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space

    Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space

    $49.95
    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...
    $49.95
  • Reframing the Black Figure Reframing the Black Figure

    Reframing the Black Figure

    $19.95
    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...
    $19.95
  • Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic - Ekphrasis Series Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic - Ekphrasis Series

    Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    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...
    $15.00
  • BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art

    BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art

    $34.99
    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...
    $34.99
  • Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

    Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition

    $35.00
    At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African Americans since the abolition of slavery. In striking graphic visualisations and photographs (taken by mostly...
    $35.00
  • Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction

    Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction

    $60.00
    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,...
    $60.00
  • Barbara Chase-Riboud Malcolm X Steles

    Barbara Chase-Riboud Malcolm X Steles

    $25.00
    Bringing together more than forty works from the United States and Europe, this exhibition examines Barbara Chase-Riboud’s artistic career, focusing primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures. Five works from that series—among them the...
    $25.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art W E B Du Boiss Data Portraits Visualizing Black America Philadelphia Museum of Art W E B Du Boiss Data Portraits Visualizing Black America

    W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America

    $29.95
    Famed sociologist, writer, and Black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois fundamentally changed the representation of Black Americans with his exhibition of data visualizations at the 1900 Paris Exposition.  Beautiful in design and powerful in content,...
    $29.95
  • Horace Pippin, American Modern Horace Pippin, American Modern

    Horace Pippin, American Modern

    $50.00
    By Anne Monahan West Chester, PA's own Horace Pippin was arguably the most successful African American artist of his day. Pippin (1888–1946) taught himself to paint in the 1930s and quickly  earned international renown for depictions of World War I,...
    $50.00