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Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention: The Old Negro in New Negro Art by Phoebe Wolfskill
Booksplease Price: £44.36An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach... -
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics by Margo Natalie Crawford
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine... -
Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life by Tavia Nyong'o
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Winner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Honorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American... -
Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting Hal Foster 9781644230152
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £34.20Kerry James Marshall is one of America's greatest living painters. History of Painting presents a groundbreaking body of new work that engages with the history of the medium itself. In Kerry James... -
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics by Margo Natalie Crawford 9780252041006
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine... -
Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life by Tavia Nyong'o 9781479856275
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.86Winner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Honorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American... -
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic by Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton 9780367689094
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the discourse of representation in visual culture of the United... -
Brushed Aside: The Untold Story of Women in Art by Noah Charney 9781538170991
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.90How many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe, Marina Abramovic? How about female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then... even a... -
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe by Marisa Anne Bass
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic significance of shells in early modern EuropeAmong nature's most artful creations, shells have long inspired the curiosity and passion of... -
Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe by Marisa Anne Bass 9780691215761
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.14A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic significance of shells in early modern EuropeAmong nature's most artful creations, shells have long inspired the curiosity and passion of... -
Contemporary Painting (World of Art) by Suzanne Hudson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86Painting is a continually expanding and evolving medium. The radical changes that have taken place since the 1960s and 1970s - the period that saw the shift from a modernist to a postmodernist visual... -
Diversity among Architects: From Margin to Center Craig Wilkins 9781138900462
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94Diversity among Architects presents a series of essays questioning the homogeneity of architecture practitioners, who remain overwhelmingly male and Caucasian, to help you create a field more... -
Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights by Derek C. Maus 9781617039973
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.80From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the... -
Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights by Derek C. Maus 9781496804563
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the... -
The Book of Change by Stephen Ellcock 9781912836833
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.57A brilliant awakening to our vast shared potential and creative energy for change, from the beloved social media curator Stephen Ellcock. Featuring 240 reproductions of art, photography and... -
The Struggle of Memory: Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection by Deutsche Bank AG 9783735609144
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £29.35Memory responds to the acquisitions Deutsche Bank has made over the past decade, many of which are by artists from Africa and/or are of African descent. By focusing on personal narratives,... -
The Routledge Companion to African American Art History by Eddie Chambers
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines how African American art has been constructed over... -
Artists on Andy Warhol Andy Warhol 9780944521861
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Artists on Andy Warhol is the third installment in a series culled from Dia's Artists on Artists lectures, focused on the work of artist Andy Warhol (1928-87). This small-format paperback book delves... -
Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker by Sarah Greenough 9780691172873
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.35Photography Reinvented brings together thirty-five works by eighteen critically acclaimed artists who, through innovative experimentation and visionary conceptual scope, have changed the course of... -
Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices by Jorunn Svensen Gjerden 9789004520097
Booksplease Price: £53.18Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the... -
Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art by Bruce Altshuler
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.86Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies... -
Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art by Brandon K. Ruud 9780803278837
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.30As the first serious study and presentation of the Sheldon Museum of Art's collection of works on paper, this catalog introduces students and art lovers alike to the largest, most international area... -
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor by Leslie Umberger 9780691182674
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.90A major new look at the work of one of America's foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is... -
Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices by Jorunn Svensen Gjerden 9789004395206
Booksplease Price: £117.29Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the... -
Art in Pursuit of Common Cause by Abigail Winograd 9781636811291
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.57MacArthur Fellows including Jeffrey Gibson, Kara Walker and more collaborate with and create art in Chicago's urban spaces This publication examines the development and reception of Toward Common... -
ArtQuake: The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art by Susie Hodge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.18Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up. ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal... -
The Puppet Show by Ingrid Schaffner 9780884541134
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.57At first glance, The Puppet Show seems a flip title. Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, this exhibition catalogue focuses--with both humor and gravity--on... -
Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema by Jennifer DeClue 9781478016526
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.34In Visitation, Jennifer DeClue shows how Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers draw from historical archives in order to visualize and reckon with violence suffered by Black women in the United... -
Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women's Practice by Gill Perry 9781405112024
RRP: £22.75Booksplease Price: £21.64This thought-provoking book explores the increasing visibility of women's art in Britain, Europe and America. Considers the work of American artists Martha Rosler and Kara Walker, Irish artist Alice... -
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation by Imani Perry 9781478000600
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem-"patriarchy"-is used so loosely... -
Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment by Jillian Hernandez 9781478010050
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89Heavy makeup, gaudy jewelry, dramatic hairstyles, and clothes that are considered cheap, fake, too short, too tight, or too masculine: working-class Black and Latina girls and women are often framed... -
The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art and History by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 9781478030171
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages... -
The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art and History by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw 9781478025924
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages... -
Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema by Jennifer DeClue
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Visitation, Jennifer DeClue shows how Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers draw from historical archives in order to visualize and reckon with violence suffered by Black women in the United... -
Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie Helen Molesworth 9781913620905
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.24Face to Face presents a selection of portraits of artists by three of the most prominent portrait artists of our time. Bringing together the diverse and distinctive work of Tacita Dean, Brigitte... -
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson 9780393072150
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.49Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that... -
Making Memory Matter: Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art by Lisa Saltzman
Booksplease Price: £27.62In an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that... -
Going There: Black Visual Satire by Richard J. Powell
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £36.83A kaleidoscopic survey of black satire in 20th- and 21st-century American art In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in... -
Women Making Art: Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts Since 1960, Second Edition by Wendy Oliver 9781433153907
RRP: £35.20Booksplease Price: £32.32This important interdisciplinary book is a unique and timely contribution to the field of women in the arts. Each chapter is devoted to a single artist and a single ground-breaking work that altered... -
Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora by Raquel Kennon 9780807176818
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Afrodiasporic Forms explores the epistemological possibilities of the "Black world" paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its constitutive African...