American - African American & Black
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Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now
$50.00 Add to cartThe first publication to examine the symbolic importance of ancient Egypt to Black artists and other cultural figures, from the nineteenth century through the Harlem Renaissance to the present
From t- Author: Tommasino, Akili
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1588397858
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
$65.00 Add to cartA book highlighting the work of pioneering Black printmaker, sculptor, and activist Elizabeth Catlett.
Accomplished printmaker and sculptor, avowed feminist, and lifelong activist Elizabeth Catlett- Author: Scruggs, Dalila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0226836576
- Language: English
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The African Desperate
$15.95 Read moreThe acerbically funny and intimate screenplay for acclaimed visual artist Martine Syms’s debut film, The African Desperate.
The African Desperate follows Palace Bryant on one very long day in 2017 that
- Author: Syms, Martine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 164362170X
- Language: English
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Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.
$30.00 Read moreFrom the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributi… [more below]
- Author: Bond, Beverly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1501157922
- Language: English
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Kerry James Marshall
$54.95 Add to cartThe most comprehensive book yet on this inspired, inventive chronicler of the African-American experience
Alabama-born, Chicago-based Kerry James Marshall is one of the most exciting artists working to
- Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artist
- Author: Gaines, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0714871559
- Language: English
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Pieces of a Man
$60.00 Read more‘Pieces of a Man’ brings together 25 years of street photographs by noted American photographer Jamel Shabazz.”Beginning in Brooklyn’s tight-knit neighborhoods, including his own, Jamel Shabazz captur
- Author: Shabazz, Jamel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0692631852
- Language: English
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A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
$45.00 Read moreContemporary artists and writers reflect on the Great Migration and the ways that it continues to inform the Black experience in America
The Great Migration (1915-70) saw more than six million Africa- Author: Brown, Jessica Bell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300265735
- Language: English
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Rediscovering Black Portraiture
$40.00 Read moreJoin Peter Brathwaite on an extraordinary journey through representations of Black subjects in Western art, from medieval Europe through the present day.
“These mirror images with their uncanny resem- Author: Brathwaite, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1606068164
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
$65.00 Read moreA book highlighting the work of pioneering Black printmaker, sculptor, and activist Elizabeth Catlett.
Accomplished printmaker and sculptor, avowed feminist, and lifelong activist Elizabeth Catlett- Author: Scruggs, Dalila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0226836576
- Language: English
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The Highwaymen: Florida’s African-American Landscape Painters
$39.95 Add to cartThis volume introduces a group of young black artists who painted their way out of the despair of citrus grove packing houses. Their 1950s images of an idealized dreamlike Florida paradise form an ast… [more below]
- Author: Monroe, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0813022819
- Language: English
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Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
$69.95 Read more‘Our strategy is collecting from the heart…The reason why we doubled down on artists of color is because much of our own community wasn’t collecting these giants.’ – Swizz Beatz
‘We want people to
- Author: Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1838668691
- Language: English
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The Brilliance of the Color Black Through the Eyes of Art Collectors
$29.99 Add to cartBeauty is in the eye of the beholder… and the color black is one of the most beautiful colors
Art historian, art collector, curator, and writer Charles Moore takes you on an exquisite journey throug
- Author: Moore, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1955496234
- Language: English
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Black Astronaut
$39.95 Add to cartBlack Astronaut. The Stars
Believe in yourself, whatever the mission Join award winning photographer Kamal X on his epic search for beauty through a divided America. Black Astronau
Belong to the People- Author: X, Kamal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1908211938
- Language: English
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Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
$55.00 Add to cartExplores the powerful ways in which visual art has long provided its own rich outlet for protest, commentary, escape, and perspective for African Americans.
This important book showcases the potent ro- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 084783669X
- Language: English
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Black Is Beautiful: Jet Beauties of the Week
$49.95 Read moreFamed 60s sunshine pop band 5th Dimension’s LaMonte McLemore’s additional enduring legacy is that of a photographer, contributing a weekly column “Beauty of the Week” to the renowned publication of Af… [more below]
- Author: McLemore, LaMonte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1648230474
- Language: English
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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
$65.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism
Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of a- Author: Murrell, Denise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1588397734
- Language: English
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Living While Black: Portraits of Everyday Resistance
$22.95 Read moreIn homage to the radical power of art, Living While Black celebrates the small acts of resistance that comprise the daily lives of Black folks by presenting them in a series of vivid illustrations.
La- Author: Mance, Ajuan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1797216864
- Language: English
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Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces
$45.00 Add to cartAn archival dive with fresh interpretations of the legendary New York gallery and cultural laboratory that catalyzed collaboration among Black artists and their counterparts of diverse backgrounds
Just
- Author: Lax, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1633451372
- Language: English
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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
$50.00 Add to cartAfrican American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers
In the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult question
- Author: Godfrey, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1942884176
- Language: English
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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South
$42.00 Add to cartRomare Bearden (1911-1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black e… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 146966786X
- Language: English
