Art - American - African American & Black
Explore our curated selection of African Americana books and art books. From Americana novels to best selling books, find the best books to read at our online bookstore today!
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Jack Whitten: The MessengerThe first full retrospective of Whitten's dazzling and trenchant abstraction from the 1960s-2010s, which transformed the relationship between art, race and societyJack Whitten offered the world a new way to see. Over nearly six decades, he dared to invent new forms of abstraction, constantly...
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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration SeriesLawrence's landmark series on African American migration in contextIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat HandbookAn affordable, compact primer on the artist who drastically shifted the course of late 20th-century artThis reader provides a concise introduction to the widely popular yet oft-misunderstood artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Guided by the steady hand of Basquiat scholar Larry Warsh, it is one of...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat. 40th Ed.The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with 1980s New York, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO, spraying caustic comments and fragmented poems on the walls of the city. He appeared as part of...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Iconic WorksThe artist's most inspired works in one volume. Jean-Michel Basquiat--artist and art world provocateur--took New York City by storm with his powerful and complex works that relentlessly engaged with charged sociopolitical issues, including race, police brutality, and structural inequity. In this important volume, devoted...
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John Wilson: Witnessing HumanityThrough paintings, sculptures, drawings and more, John Wilson's work foregrounds the human experience and refuses invisibilityAmerican artist John Wilson was not only a master draftsman, printmaker, painter and sculptor active for over seven decades, but he was also a keen observer and social activist....
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Jordan Casteel'[Casteel] captures everyday encounters with people and places in works that invite recognition of our shared humanity.' - MacArthur FoundationThe first monograph on Jordan Casteel, one of the most critically acclaimed artists working todayJordan Casteel (b.1989 in Denver) is a New York-based artist known...
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Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence"That is the archaeology I am unearthing: the specter of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and brown people all over the world." -Kehinde WileyPublished with Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence features...
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Kerry James Marshall: MastryThe definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall, accompanying a major traveling retrospective. This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America's greatest living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama,...
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Lorna Simpson: Source NotesThe first publication on the painting practice of artist Lorna Simpson, whose work combines abstraction and figuration to highlight complexities of memory and representation This revelatory first look at the paintings of Lorna Simpson (b. 1960), an artist who has worked primarily as a...
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Mapping Malcolm"For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought--his home of homes, where his heart was, and where his people are." Nearly sixty years since the martyrdom of Malcolm X, these words from Ossie Davis's eulogy remind us that Malcolm's political...
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Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem CollectionSelections from the extraordinary Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, accompanying the highly anticipated opening of the institution's first-ever purpose-built museum Meaning Matter Memory is a keepsake extension of the Studio Museum's collection of artwork by artists of African descent. Beautiful illustrations of significant works...
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Mickalene Thomas: All about LoveA major monograph chronicling Thomas' vibrant, rhinestone-adorned paintingsContemporary African-American artist Mickalene Thomas has created a dramatic body of work that ranges from painting, collage and print to photography, video and immersive installations. The book -- and the exhibition at the Broad Museum on which...
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National Museum of African American History and Culture 2e: A Souvenir Book, Second EditionTake a tour through Black history in 100+ Smithsonian objects with this updated edition of the beautifully illustrated keepsake--now featuring 72 new objects. Celebrating 10 years of the National Museum of African American History! Admire up-close more than 125 of the most influential and...
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Negro: An AnthologyReprint Edition of the 1934 Edition. This is the abridged edition of Nancy Cunard's classic collection. In 1934, Nancy Cunard self-published this volume in an edition of 1000 copies through her Hours Press. She was an odd source considering she was a wealthy white...
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Nina Chanel AbneyThe highly anticipated debut monograph from trailblazing artist Nina Chanel AbneyCombining representation and abstraction, Nina Chanel Abney's paintings capture the frenetic pace of contemporary culture. Broaching subjects as diverse as race, celebrity, religion, politics, sex, and art history, her works eschew linear storytelling in...
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Noah DavisThis 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 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral...
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Noah Davis: The JournalFeaturing 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. The late American artist Noah Davis made his mark as both a painter of ethereal figurative works...
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Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985Featuring more than 100 artists, this landmark book charts the intricate connections between photography and the Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement brought together writers, filmmakers, and visual artists who were exploring ways of using art to advance civil rights and Black self-determination....
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Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep ThinkersFrom 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 eraCo-organized by the Guggenheim New York and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, A Poem for Deep Thinkers...
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