African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439235201Author Osiris HalisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692365205Author Horace Randall WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Tinwood BooksPublisher Tinwood BooksWeight(grams) 1633gDimensions(mm) 312mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991130542Author Aisha LumumbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Original Bed Art QuiltsPublisher Original Bed Art QuiltsWeight(grams) 249g

Never Late for Heaven chronicles an odyssey in American art and social events beginning with the often-romanticized Harlem Renaissance and traveling through the Great Depression and beyond. Gwen Knight's story reveals the life and the passion for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990711001Author Xavier PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Over the Edge BooksPublisher Over the Edge BooksWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692388563Author Sirron V KylesFormat PaperbackImprint Houstone PublishingPublisher Houstone PublishingWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692953525Author Adrian Ace MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint True Warrior FamilyPublisher True Warrior FamilyWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990664444Author Breazia Renee RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint O & J AwakeningsPublisher O & J AwakeningsWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985314132Author David Judah OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Dimlights PublishingPublisher Dimlights PublishingWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963959485Author Aisha LumumbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Few Books, IncorporatedPublisher Few Books, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883781968Author Kalamu ya SalaamFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Third World Press,U.S.Publisher Third World Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991130535Author Aisha LumumbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Original Bed Art QuiltsPublisher Original Bed Art QuiltsWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932216786Author Catharina ManchandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Seattle Art MuseumPublisher Seattle Art MuseumWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951449452Author Dieter RoelstraeteFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Gagosian GalleryPublisher Gagosian GalleryWeight(grams) 1842gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

This resource assembles 129 Black artists and their magnificent works, highlighting their important contributions to art worldwide. Beginning with the Brooklyn-based artists active during the Works Progress Administration years and continuing...

In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. NoEl investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation...

Writing in Space, 1973-2019 gathers the writings of conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady, who for over forty years has investigated the complicated relationship between text and image. A firsthand account of O'Grady's wide-ranging practice, this volume...

The Unicorn Incorporated celebrates the work and career of Seattle artist Curtis R. Barnes. For over five decades, Barnes has worked as an artist, illustrator, muralist, and community advocate. In his sculpture, painting, and drawing, he employs imagery...

The first major exhibition and catalog dedicated to the work of groundbreaking painter and filmmaker Mike Henderson. Mike Henderson (b. 1944) is a painter, filmmaker, and professor emeritus at University of California, Davis. Published to accompany...

Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578486932Author Amy ChaloupkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Whatcom Museum FoundationPublisher Whatcom Museum FoundationWeight(grams) 567g

The Visual Blues explores the enormous impact that blues and jazz music emanating from the Deep South and moving north had on artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Through a synthesis of interdisciplinary studies, The Visual Blues will fill a...

Malvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber were three New York City artists whose work was popularly assigned to the category of "racial art" in the interwar years of the twentieth century. The term was widely used by critics and the public at...

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement. From the painting of murals as a way to reclaim public space and the establishment of independent community art centers to...

A comprehensive, in-depth presentation of African-Americana, also known as black memorabilia or collectibles, through over 500 color photos. This gorgeous photo essay and extensively researched historical perspective includes a broad sampling of...

‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music,...

A beautifully illustrated review of the deeply connected lives and careers of this prominent Minneapolis African American artist-couple Clarence Morgan and Arlene Burke-Morgan are the epitome of an artist-couple: in love with each other and their family,...

60 Americans is a response to the ill-gotten gains of flipper-collectors, money corrupted and trend obsessed gallerists, shopping mall inspired art fairs, nepotism and favoritism of the made-men and women of privileged MFA programs in America. 60...

101 Contemporary Artists Volume 1 features 101 of the most exciting contemporary artists from around the World. Curator Terrence Sanders-Smith has compiled a relevant and important survey of emerging and mid-career artists of the 21st century. 101...

The art and artists of Harlem: Found Ways represent the place and its people, burnishing Harlem's luster but never attempting to smooth its rough edges. The works in the exhibition span a variety of media to explore the invention of Harlem and, at the...

The Crisis was an integral element of the struggle to combat racism in America. As editor of the magazine (1910-1934), W. E. B. Du Bois addressed the important issues facing African Americans. He used the journal as a means of racial uplift, celebrating...

Smithsonian American Art Museum's 2021 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American ArtMichael Ray Charles is the most comprehensive presentation yet of the work of an artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s for works that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119156Author Aisha Sabatini SloanFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint McSweeney'sPublisher McSweeney'sWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 147mm *...

The artists featured in The Black Index-Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas-build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Their translations of...

Contemporary 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 African Americans leave the South for destinations across the...

Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American artists. And by the time the civil rights movement reached the American art museum, it had already crested: the first public demonstrations to integrate museums...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010073Author Terrence SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint UNO PressPublisher University of New Orleans Publishing

A New York Times best art book of 2022A groundbreaking study of the public art collective Smokehouse Associates, whose abstract works transformed New York's Harlem community in the late 1960s Between 1968 and 1970, the artist collective Smokehouse...

This book examines the quilts, ceramics, paintings, sculpture, installations, assemblages, daguerreotypes, photography and performance art produced by African American artists over a two hundred year period. The author draws on archaeological discoveries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780997416596Author Romi CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Green Lantern...