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Egostrip Book 1 by Dan Lish 9781913231446
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €27.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231446Author Dan LishFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press -
Art of Jazz: A Visual History by Alyn Shipton
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €27.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545048Author Alyn ShiptonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. -
Exhale: A Self Care Coloring Book - Celebrating Black Women, Brown Women and Good Vibes by Latoya Nicole 9781734879742
RRP: €10.02Booksplease Price: €8.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734879742Author Latoya NicoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Precise Publishing Inc.Publisher Precise Publishing Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions by Wole Soyinka
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €20.83An intimate reflection on culture and tradition, creativity and power, that draws on a lifetime's commitment to aesthetic encounter The playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is also a longtime art collector. This book of... -
The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past by Lisa Gail Collins 9780813530222
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €34.58"This important study is the first to confront head-on the avoidance of the visual that has plagued black studies in the United States. The Art of History opens the often hermetic world of black visual culture to a much broader realm in which questions... -
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin by Hilton Als 9781954947092
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €31.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954947092Author Hilton AlsFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Dancing Foxes PressPublisher Dancing Foxes Press -
A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See by Tina M. Campt
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €17.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546058Author Tina M. CamptFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art by Tony Nourmand 9781909526068
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €37.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526068Author Tony NourmandFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art PressWeight(grams) 2232g -
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys by Kimberli Gant 9781838668693
RRP: €59.44Booksplease Price: €38.89'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 see themselves…We want you to see the giants on whose... -
Music and the Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat by Mary-Dailey Desmarais
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €29.19During the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City was financially and socially bankrupt, but the art and music scene was flourishing. During these years, the downtown New York music scene - no wave, hip-hop, disco funk and club culture - shaped... -
Lauren Halsey: emajendat by Lauren Halsey 9780847847815
RRP: €50.58Booksplease Price: €35.01The artist s important work centers the on Black community, both aesthetically and materially. Halsey gathers icons of pride, autonomy, initiative, and resilience from local vernacular sources recontextualizing and reinterpreting them for her utopic... -
Abloh-isms by Virgil Abloh
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.89A collection of essential quotations from the renowned fashion designer, DJ, and stylistAbloh-isms is a collection of essential quotations from American fashion designer, DJ, and stylist Virgil Abloh, who was a major creative figure in the worlds of pop... -
Noah Davis by Noah Davis 9781644230374
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €39.76Providing a crucial record of the painter Noah Davis's extraordinary oeuvre, this monograph tells the story of a brilliant artist and cultural force through the eyes of his friends and collaborators. Despite his exceedingly premature death at the age of... -
Basquiat - 40 by 9783836580922
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.67The 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 a... -
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at The Frick by Aimee Ng 9780847873593
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €33.12American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945 2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in the late 1960s. This book contextualizes Hendricks s portraits at different stages of the country s history... -
Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches Sharrell Luckett 9781138907621
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €43.40Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics,... -
Kerry James Marshall by Elizabeth Alexander 9780847848331
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €42.47This 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, and witness to the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an... -
Beauty Is a Basic Service: Theology and Hospitality in the Work of Theaster Gates by Maria Fee
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506469843Author Maria FeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure (c) by Lisane Basquiat
RRP: €47.54Booksplease Price: €36.09Organised by the family of Basquiat, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue feature over 200 never before and rarely seen paintings, drawings, ephemera, and artifacts. The artist s contributions to the history of art and his exploration into our... -
Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.23The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of black people in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.The... -
Basquiat by Marc Mayer
RRP: €22.55Booksplease Price: €17.60Jean-Michel Basquiat was only twenty-seven when he died in 1988, his meteoric and often controversial career having lasted for just eight years. Despite his early death, Basquiat's powerful A uvre has ensured his continuing reputation as one of modern... -
Assembling a Black Counter Culture by Deforrest Brown
RRP: €20.23Booksplease Price: €18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734489736Author Deforrest BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
Lorna Simpson - Revised & Expanded Edition by Thelma Golden
RRP: €59.44Booksplease Price: €40.79The most comprehensive and up-to-date monograph available on the work of celebrated artist Lorna Simpson, a trailblazer who continues to influence and inspire Lorna Simpson is a multimedia artist known for her pioneering approach to conceptual... -
Arthur Jafa: Magnumb by Arthur Jafa 9788793659353
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.64An essential overview of Jafa's sweeping, dynamic and disquieting video portraits of Black American life Though he has worked in film and music for decades, American video artist Arthur Jafa only garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video... -
Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer by Diana Seave Greenwald 9780691973852
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €38.35A richly illustrated look at how travel influenced the work of renowned contemporary artist Betye SaarBetye Saar (b. 1926) is an artist whose assemblages tell visual stories and convey powerful political messages. A leading figure of the Black Arts... -
A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See by Tina M Campt
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045872Author Tina M. CamptFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Roy DeCarava: Light Break Roy DeCarava 9781644230251
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €37.16Light Break presents the first survey since 1996 of photographer Roy DeCarava, an essential figure of American art and culture, whose "poetry of vision" re-forms urban life, labor, love, and jazz into the discovery of "an intimate, emotional arc of... -
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Iconic Work by Dieter Buchhart 9780847873814
RRP: €50.58Booksplease Price: €44.32The 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... -
The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593232255
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €42.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593232255Author Nikole Hannah-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters by Tricia Rose
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.78Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and 'hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining... -
Bisa Butler: Portraits by Erica Warren
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.79A beautifully illustrated look at the work of one of today's most exciting artists Bisa Butler (b. 1973) is an American artist who creates arresting and psychologically nuanced portraits composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics that... -
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Of Symbols and Signs by Dieter Buchhart
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €36.14Jean-Michel Basquiat's symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all-too-brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy-not... -
William H. Johnson: An American Modern by Teresa G. Gionis
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €20.98"My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and tradition, and which is now concentrated in me."--William H. Johnson An... -
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by Anais Duplan
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.55Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anais Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by... -
London: Immigrant City Nazneen Khan-Ostrem 9781472145727
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.18TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so... -
Black and Blur by Fred Moten
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €20.62"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of... -
The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America Sarah Lewis 9780674238343
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €28.39Chicago Tribune, 10 Best Books of 2024A Hyperallergic Best Book of the YearThe award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the... -
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.88'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.'Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets; creator of Son of Baldwin'Standout..... -
Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.37One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur "genius" grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged in unsettling scenes on gallery walls. These visually... -
Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West by Christian Tagsold 9780812246742
RRP: €66.64Booksplease Price: €50.67One may visit famous gardens in Tokyo, Kyoto, or Osaka-or one may visit Japanese-styled gardens in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Paris, Sao Paulo, or Singapore. We often view these gardens as representative of the essence of...