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Betye Saar: Black Doll Blues by Betye Saar
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $62.99An investigation into Saar's lifelong interest in Black dolls, with new watercolors, historic assemblages, sketchbooks and a selection of Black dolls from the artist's collection This volume... -
Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight by Betye Saar
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $59.67Rarely seen installation works that exemplify this pioneering artist's critical focus on Black identity and Black feminism Showcasing a lesser-known aspect of Saar's art, Betye Saar: Serious... -
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight Betye Saar 9781646570423
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $34.48Luminous and tranquil, Saar's newest installation uses natural objects and materials to take the viewer on a spiritual journey This volume features the Huntington Library and Museum's commissioned... -
Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer by Diana Seave Greenwald 9780691973852
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $64.00A 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... -
Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11 Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins 9780300283563
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $53.74This third and final volume in the Black Artists in America series features work from the transitional moment of the late 1970s to the dawn of the twenty-first century In the 1980s and 1990s, Black... -
Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention: The Old Negro in New Negro Art by Phoebe Wolfskill
Booksplease Price: $86.74An 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... -
Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon by Cheryl Finley
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.71How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembranceOne of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving... -
Remember to Dream!: 100 Artists, 100 Notes by Hans Ulrich Obrist 9781912122073
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.74Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, brings his curating expertise to the Instagram feeds of more than 386,000 followers (and counting!), in an endeavour... -
Joan Didion: What She Means by Joan Didion
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $54.80An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics-including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus,... -
Going There: Black Visual Satire by Richard J. Powell
RRP: $82.88Booksplease Price: $71.82A 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... -
Boundary Trouble in American Vanguard Art, 1920-2020 Lynne Cooke 9780300267112
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $105.05A profound examination of the complex constructs that have kept "outsider" and self-taught artists on the margins of the mainstream The artists in Boundary Trouble in American Vanguard Art defy... -
Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought by Bettina Judd 9780810145320
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79How creativity makes its way through feeling-and what we can know and feel through the artistic work of Black women Feeling is not feelin. As the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues,... -
Picturing Motherhood Now by Emily Liebert
Booksplease Price: $59.34Collective insights from a diverse and global group of contemporary artists whose works challenge traditional representations of motherhoodPicturing Motherhood Now brings together work by a range of... -
African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present by Celeste-Marie Bernier
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $68.56This book examines the quilts, ceramics, paintings, sculpture, installations, assemblages, daguerreotypes, photography and performance art produced by African American artists over a two hundred year... -
Black Art: A Cultural History by Richard J. Powell 9780500203620
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $45.96This groundbreaking book explores the visual representations of black culture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. From blues to rap, from the paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner... -
The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art: Performing Identity by Caroline Brown
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within... -
The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture Karen Lemmey 9780691261492
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $69.87A major new survey of American sculpture, exploring how it both reflects and redefines concepts of race and identity in the United StatesWhen viewing a sculpture, how quickly do we tend to assign... -
Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection Ingrid Schaffner 9783907493243
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $67.86The eloquent story of Eileen Harris Norton's collection and its pivotal role in championing the work of women artists, artists of color, and changing narratives of contemporary art. Since she... -
Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism by Marci Kwon 9780691181400
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $95.30The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernismJoseph Cornell (1903-1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed... -
Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love Kellie Jones 9780691261997
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $74.63A richly illustrated account tracing the full arc of contemporary painter Suzanne Jackson's life and multifaceted artistic visionFirst and foremost a painter, Suzanne Jackson has worked for six... -
Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights by Robert J Patterson 9780252042775
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks fueled by resentment and reaction. African American... -
Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights by Robert J Patterson
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $26.60The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks fueled by resentment and reaction. African American... -
Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015 by Celeste-Marie Bernier 9780520286535
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $110.06The first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the lives and works of over fifty painters, photographers,... -
Manet: A Model Family Diana Seave Greenwald 9780691260662
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $66.98A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manet's family to his artAll families are complicated, but the family of Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was more complicated than most... -
Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory by 9780472034017
RRP: $46.70Booksplease Price: $45.69"An engaging study of 'mammy,' the provocative figure of the African American nanny, cook, and housekeeper in white households . . . Wallace-Sanders reveals . . . disturbing innuendos of mammy still... -
No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America by Waldo E. Martin, Jr. 9780674015074
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $59.01In a vibrant and passionate exploration of the twentieth-century civil rights and black power eras in American history, Waldo Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the... -
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood by Hettie Judah 9780500027868
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $39.00'Hettie Judah's enthralling and important book expands a male-centred art history to include mothers as subjects and symbols, makers and myths' Jennifer Higgie 'One of the most electrifying and... -
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by Kellie Jones 9780822361459
Booksplease Price: $201.51Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a... -
Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles by Daniel Widener
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians' unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of... -
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by Kellie Jones
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.32Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a... -
This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga 9781438488288
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $45.65Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the... -
This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga 9781438488271
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $135.74Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the... -
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by Kellie Jones 9780822348733
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $44.85A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kellie Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers in Manhattan's East Village and absorbed in black nationalist ideas... -
The Soul of a Nation Reader: Writings by and about Black American Artists, 1960-1980 Mark Godfrey 9781941366325
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $48.71A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, based on the landmark... -
Great Women Sculptors Phaidon Editors 9781838667771
RRP: $97.40Booksplease Price: $68.52As seen in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and ELLE Decoration A celebration of more than 300 groundbreaking women sculptors that surveys 500 years of creative ingenuity from around the world...