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Kara Walker: Figa by Kara Walker 9786185039325
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $26.99Critical insight into the gesturing hand piece from Kara Walker's monumental sugar sphinx Kara Walker's (born 1969) Figa, a sculpture monumental in both size and symbol, was installed at the DESTE... -
Kara Walker: White Shadows in Blackface by Kara Walker
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $30.74Themes and motifs in the art of Kara Walker, from blackface to abjection, by a leading art historian In 2002, Kara Walker was selected to represent the United States at the prestigious Sao Paulo... -
Kara Walker by Vanina Gere
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $21.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544474Author Vanina GereFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.06One 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... -
Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race by Rebecca Peabody
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and... -
Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race by Rebecca Peabody 9780520288928
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.18In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and... -
Parkett: Vol 59: Marizio, Cattelan, Yayoi, Kusama, Kara, Walker by Yayoi Kusama 9783907582091
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783907582091Author Yayoi KusamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Parkett... -
Ari Marcopoulos: Zines by Ari Marcopoulos
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $44.98Ari Marcopoulos is an inveterate maker of zines. This project collects in one volume for the first time a selection of zines by Marcopoulos, many never before released, providing a unique insight and... -
Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker by Ilka Saal 9781609387785
RRP: $99.33Booksplease Price: $83.67Collusions of Fact and Fiction traces a generational shift in late twentieth-century African American cultural engagements with the history and legacies of transatlantic slavery. With a focus on... -
Drawing in the Present Tense by Roger Malbert
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.60A richly illustrated, up-to-the-minute overview of new approaches in drawing, set in the context of recent developments of other forms of contemporary art. This book explores the variety of ways in... -
Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970 by Vivien Green Fryd
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $40.03As part of the feminist movement of the 1970s, female artists began consciously using their works to challenge social conceptions and the legal definitions of rape and incest and to shift the... -
Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing by Erica L. Johnson 9783030020972
Booksplease Price: $66.22Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art. The... -
Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People Avery Gordon 9781594510151
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $68.29Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings... -
Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hands by Dr Salomé Voegelin
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $25.90Uncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity. It foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial... -
The Art of Print: From Hogarth to Hockney by Elizabeth Jacklin
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.48Prints have played a unique and vital role in the history of art and image. Yet printmaking remains a mysterious discipline, often considered in terms of reproduction instead of as an innovative and... -
Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11 Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins 9780300283563
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.94This 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... -
Painful Forms: Aesthetic Violence in American Literature and Art, 1945–2001 Anna Ioanes 9781469688947
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suffering of the sociopolitical moment, new... -
Fictions of Emancipation - Carpeaux`s Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered by Elyse Nelson
Booksplease Price: $27.15A critical reexamination of Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images-this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol... -
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson 9780807856864
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.95Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their... -
Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Shirley Samuels 9781498573139
Booksplease Price: $43.65Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging... -
Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body by Ayo A. Coly
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $39.38Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical... -
Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body by Ayo A. Coly 9781496238887
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical... -
Can We Stop Killing Each Other? Tafadzwa Nomphanelo Makwabarara 9781836360148
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.64Can We Stop Killing Each Other? wrestles with the darkest side of humanity. It explores the fundamental question of why humans are led to kill, examining the artworks, films, video games and... -
Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture by Claire Pajaczkowska
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $138.07Why do human beings feel shame? What is the cultural dimension of shame and sexuality? Can theory understand the power of affect? How is psychoanalysis integral to cultural theory?The experience of... -
Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture by Claire Pajaczkowska 9780415420129
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $43.98Why do human beings feel shame? What is the cultural dimension of shame and sexuality? Can theory understand the power of affect? How is psychoanalysis integral to cultural theory?The experience of... -
Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education New Museum 9780415960854
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $77.06For over a decade, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education has served as the guide to multicultural art education, connecting everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with... -
The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art: Performing Identity by Caroline Brown
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $68.29This 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... -
Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media Mick Broderick (Murdoch University, Australia) 9780415845328
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $58.10Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on... -
Sociology Looks at the Arts Julia Rothenberg 9780415887953
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Sociology Looks at the Arts is intended as a concise yet nuanced introduction to the sociology of art. This book will provide a foundation for teaching and discussing a range of questions and... -
100 Years, 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art by Agnes Berecz
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $28.06This dazzling book showcases the history of modern and contemporary art using one hundred of the most significant art works--one per year--of the past 100 years. Starting with Marcel Duchamp's 1919... -
Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture by Shawan M. Worsley
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.44Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley... -
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage by Kathryn E. Delmez 9780300272963
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.08An engaging introduction to contemporary Black American collage brings together art by fifty artists that reflects the breadth and complexity of Black identity "A lavish catalog . . . provides not... -
Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance by Amber Jamilla Musser 9781479807031
Booksplease Price: $116.84Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so,... -
Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance by Amber Jamilla Musser
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do... -
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith 9780241729595
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.83An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith'Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes... -
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith 9780241729601
Booksplease Price: $18.06An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith'Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes... -
Not Your Mother's Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women's Media by Tracey L Walters
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.30Not Your Mother's Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and... -
Not Your Mother's Mammy: The Black Domestic Worker in Transatlantic Women's Media by Tracey L Walters 9781978808584
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $129.88Not Your Mother's Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and... -
Art As Sanctuary: Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic Michael D. Harris 9781478015062
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $103.33In Art as Sanctuary, Michael D. Harris considers literal and metaphorical uses of sanctuary in the Black experience and African diaspora art, including locales of spiritual expression, self-renewal,... -
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children by Jamaica Kincaid 9780374608255
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $21.85In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind...