Art

Delving behind the scenes of Black Dada pioneer Adam Pendleton's multilayered, genre-redefining painting practiceThe work of American artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) blurs the distinctions among painting, drawing and photography through a process...

Writings on black men's cultural production and black masculinity by one of today's leading historians of modern and contemporary art. Collecting twenty years of incisive essays, articles, and interviews--including four published here for the first...

How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spirit Color does more than capture a viewer's attention. It assaults one's equilibrium physically and psychologically. In this stunning book, Richard...

The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation's racial regime. In a masterpiece of...

Substantial and comprehensive book is a unique exploration of a major collection of art by Black American and African American artists, comprising some 1,000 works by more than 200 individual artists.Over 55 years, a museum in the American South has...

The first biography of a preeminent postwar architect who championed the cause of freedom through architecture and transformed Black history and modernism J. Max Bond Jr. (1935-2009) was a civil rights activist, educator, and architect who shaped such...

A richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life. In twentieth-century Chicago, generations of Black artisans, craftspeople, art educators,...

An exploration of sisterhood, creativity, and community inspired by the artist Alma Thomas's life and work, from the award-winning poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs Alma Thomas (1891-1978) was an influential figure in twentieth-century modern art, best known...

Despite some field research our knowledge of the sacred among the Mumuye is still embryonic. In all these acephalic groups of a binary and antinomic nature, the complex va constitutes an extremely varied semantic field in which certain aspects are...

Recommended on Vogue's "'Superfine' Reading List" for the 2025 Costume Institute Exhibition This gorgeous coffee table book is the first-ever collection of works devoted to celebrating Black models. "Fashion devotees will find glorious images of supers...

Dispossessed is a poetic representation of life in three stages through the eyes of a poet. It shows, from the thematic interests of the poet; what he considers the crucial stages in life - Innocence, Transgression and Atonement. In the end, dispossessed...

The ethnographic literature of the 20th century focused mainly on the sculptural traditions of the numerous ethnic groups that populated Southern Nigeria while the more northern areas remained largely terra incognita. In 2013 Jan Strybol published a...