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Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal by Hank Willis Thomas 9781597114486
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $75.50Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal presents a survey of the artist's prolific and extraordinary interdisciplinary career, with a particular focus on the work's relationship to the... -
For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? Hank Willis Thomas 9781580936620
RRP: $94.40Booksplease Price: $67.33The first monograph of the hundreds of billboards by artist-led coalition For Freedoms, the largest public creative collaboration in American history Founded in 2016 by Hank Willis Thomas, Eric... -
Goin' Viral: Uncontrollable Black Performance Gabriel A Peoples 9780252046643
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39Black virality refers to the spread of Black performance that becomes uncontrollable because of its rapid and ubiquitous circulation through popular media. Gabriel A. Peoples examines Black people... -
Goin' Viral: Uncontrollable Black Performance Gabriel A Peoples 9780252088742
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Black virality refers to the spread of Black performance that becomes uncontrollable because of its rapid and ubiquitous circulation through popular media. Gabriel A. Peoples examines Black people... -
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle by Elizabeth Hutton Turner 9780295747040
RRP: $92.30Booksplease Price: $70.33This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of... -
Taking Stakes in the Unknown - Tracing Post-Black Art by Nana Adusei-poku
RRP: $92.38Booksplease Price: $66.72In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly... -
Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance by Torin Monahan 9781478016113
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $136.27In Crisis Vision, Torin Monahan explores how artists confront the racializing dimensions of contemporary surveillance. He focuses on artists ranging from Kai Wiedenhoefer, Paolo Cirio, and Hank... -
Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon by Cheryl Finley
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.76How 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... -
Black Love Letters by Cole Brown 9781638931201
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $29.09As seen on ABC's The View * One of W magazine's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confused glory . . ... -
Bull City Summer: A Season At The Ballpark by Sam Stephenson 9780988983168
Booksplease Price: $86.37Bull City Summer: A Season At The Ballpark unites a group of artists and documentarians (Hiroshi Watanabe, Alec Soth, and Hank Willis Thomas) around the 2013 season of minor league baseball in... -
The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography: Classic Tool, Universal Applications Chris Johnson 9781138206311
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $95.74This sixth edition of The Practical Zone System by Chris Johnson updates the classic manual on Ansel Adams's landmark technique for the digital age. For photographers working digitally or with film,... -
Branded and On Display by Daniel Thomas Cook
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $36.14Ours is a culture defined by marketing and acquiring. Virtually every activity in our lives is experienced through purchases, from layettes to caskets. The landscape is studded with logos, brand... -
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility by Ashley James 9780892075638
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $79.65From Dawoud Bey and Lorna Simpson to Sondra Perry and Kerry James Marshall, a multiethnic group of artists explores what it means to be seen, not seen or erased in the world through formal... -
Vision & Justice: Aperture 223: Vision & Justice by Sarah Lewis 9781597114103
RRP: $48.20Booksplease Price: $35.49As the United States navigates a political moment defined by the close of the Obama era and the rise of #BlackLivesMatter activism, Aperture magazine releases "Vision & Justice," a special issue... -
Where Art Meets Nature: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden Monacelli Editors 9781580936491
RRP: $104.90Booksplease Price: $72.11An up-to-date survey of the stunning sculpture collection at the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) Situated on twelve lush, landscaped acres, the New... -
Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art by Phaidon Editors 9781838665463
RRP: $104.90Booksplease Price: $72.11A ground-breaking global survey of today’s most innovative artists working with text The inclusion of text in works of art was a revolutionary creative advancement of the twentieth century, with... -
Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance by Torin Monahan
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In Crisis Vision, Torin Monahan explores how artists confront the racializing dimensions of contemporary surveillance. He focuses on artists ranging from Kai Wiedenhoefer, Paolo Cirio, and Hank... -
70th Anniversary Issue: Aperture 248 by 9781597115261
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $31.56Anniversary issue features seven original commissions by leading photographers and artists, and seven essays about Aperture's legacy by award-winning writers and critics This fall, Aperture... -
MONUMENTS Hannah Burstein 9781636810997
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $83.58Scholars and contemporary artists reckon with decommissioned monuments, examining fraught narratives of the legacy of the Civil War and slavery as well as national identity in the United States ... -
Question Bridge: Black Males in America Deborah Willis 9781597113359
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $30.51Question Bridge assembles a series of questions posed to black men, by and for other black men, along with the corresponding responses and portraits of the participants. The questions range from the... -
Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas by Natalie Alvarez 9783030115562
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $209.62This collection promises to be a cornerstone in the field of performance studies and human rights activism. By mixing scholarly chapters with artists' manifestos or "interruptions" it promotes the... -
Afro-Atlantic Histories by Adriano Pedrosa
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $68.94A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro-Atlantic Histories... -
The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century by Asma Naeem 9781941366547
RRP: $102.90Booksplease Price: $72.51A sweeping survey of hip hop's resounding impact on contemporary art and culture across the past 20-plus years Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition originating at the Baltimore Museum of Art,... -
Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia by Paul M. Farber
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $52.63What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia? That was the question posed by the curators, artists, scholars, and students who comprise the Philadelphia-based public art and... -
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory Deborah Willis 9788862087803
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $62.35'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial exhibition that is scheduled for Fall 2022 and will run at the National Underground... -
Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015 by Celeste-Marie Bernier 9780520286535
RRP: $149.10Booksplease Price: $118.52The 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,... -
Creative Quest by Questlove 9780062670571
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.12NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Esquire * PopSugar * The Huffington Post * Buzzfeed * Publishers WeeklyA unique new guide to creativity from Questlove-inspirations, stories, and lessons on... -
Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World by Anna Arabindan-Kesson
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.88In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism... -
Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World by Anna Arabindan-Kesson 9781478011927
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $129.72In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism... -
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art by Miranda Lash
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $70.73Featuring the work of sixty artists and including 300 illustrations, the catalog Southern Accent accompanies a major contemporary art exhibition that questions and explores the complex and contested... -
You Next: Reflections in Black Barbershops by Antonio Johnson 9781641602853
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $42.40"A stirring work . . . images meet text to convey a most handsome portrait of Black barbering in America as a revered cultural practice. Honest, intelligent, poignant-You Next is brilliant from cover... -
The Legacy Sites: A History of Racial Injustice Bryan Stevenson 9781580937320
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $60.88The Legacy Sites is a compelling and visually rich book exploring the groundbreaking work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) through its transformative public spaces: the Legacy Museum, the... -
Kelly Wearstler: Synchronicity by Kelly Wearstler 9780847873425
RRP: $99.75Booksplease Price: $77.97Kelly Wearstler, one of the most irreverent and successful designers working today, continues to push boundaries with her inventive and opulent residential and commercial interiors.Celebrated for... -
The Debt Project: 99 Portraits Across America by Brittany M. Powell
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $39.86FEATURED IN THE NEW YORKER: The Faces of Americans Living in DebtFinalist for the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize in Documentary.Featured on Politico, in the Washington Post, the Daily Mail, and the...