Arts & Photography
Arts & Photography
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
Articulates the role black theatricality played in the radical energy of the sixtiesBlack Performance on the Outskirts of the Left illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These...
$102.49
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
Articulates the role black theatricality played in the radical energy of the sixtiesBlack Performance on the Outskirts of the Left illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These...
$36.00
Black Lives, Black Words: 32 Short Plays
Selected and edited by the award-winning American playwright Reginald Edmund, who produced Black Lives, Black Words across the US, which premiered in Chicago, July 2015. The international project has explored the black diaspora’s experiences in some of the largest multicultural cities in...
$41.99
Black Film British Cinema II
The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period.Black Film British Cinema II considers the politics of blackness in contemporary British cinema and...
$30.00
The Black Figure in the European Imaginary
With forty major loans, including paintings, engravings, lithographs, watercolors, sculpture, and decorative arts, this new volume studies the way in which the visual arts in Europe perceived, or imagined, the black figure during the "long" nineteenth century (ca.1750-1914).
$45.00
'Black but Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700
Black British Migrants in Cuba offers a comprehensive study of migration from the British Caribbean to Cuba in the pre-World War II era, spotlighting an important chapter of the larger trajectory of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Grounded in extensive and rigorous...
$150.00
Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity
“Cleveland successfully problematizes the term Afro-Brazilian art as a category, challenging many assumptions about black art in Brazil specifically, and in the African Diaspora more broadly.”—Heather Shirey, University of St. Thomas“An insightful and clear discussion of the world of contemporary black art...
$86.00
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black...
$32.00
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
$123.99
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black...
$123.99
Biko's Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness
“When you say, ‘Black is Beautiful,’ what in fact you are saying . . . is: Man, you are okay as you are; begin to look upon yourself as a human being.” With such statements, Stephen Biko became the voice...
$29.95
Betye Saar: Black Girl’s Window
Made at a critical juncture in Betye Saar’s (born 1926) career, the enigmatic assemblage Black Girl’s Window (1969) was recognized by the artist as a crucial link between her past and future even at the time she made it. Saar has drawn...
$14.95
Among Others: Blackness at MoMA
"Considers MoMA's complex history with black artists, black audiences, and art about blackness" –Victoria L Valentine, Culture Type A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2019This expansive collection of essays on nearly 200 works in the collection of the Museum...
$65.00
African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology
This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current...
$57.50
African Images (Global Issues)
This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current...
$195.50
African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction (African Humanities and the Arts)
African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction analyzes the aesthetic strategies adopted by contemporary African diasporic filmmakers to express the reconstruction of identity. Having left the continent, these filmmakers see Africa as a site of representation and cultural circulation. The diasporic experience...
$63.99
African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions
African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discipline of African American Studies and provides a basic reference source for sixteen areas of knowledge of the discipline: anthropology, art, dance,...
$201.99
Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in New York City’s Gilded Age
$19.00
Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in New York City’s Gilded Age
Betsy Prioleau’s biography of Gilded Age female tycoon Miriam Leslie is “an appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne fountain that somebody else is paying for”...
$19.00
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil...
$21.00
Modern Fashion Illustration: Simple Techniques for Stylish Drawings
The Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming the Next Big Fashion IllustratorYou’ve got a knack for designing―now what? With the help of successful fashion artist Holly Nichols, you’ll learn how to take your passion to a new level. Elevate your designs with...
$22.99
Korakrit Arunanondchai: Songs for Living Songs for Dying
Part survey, part artist's book and part visual essay, this volume embodies the Thai multimedia artist’s passion for expansive storytelling Bangkok-born, Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Korakrit Arunanondchai (born 1986) probes the thresholds of birth, decreation and death through his video, painting...
$45.00
William Bell Scott's Screen: A Pre-Raphaelite Romance
William Bell Scott's screen, The King's Quair, was commissioned by James Leathart, an important collector of Pre-Raphaelite art. The beautifully decorated folding screen took as its inspiration The Kingis Quair, a 15th-century Scots poem attributed to James I of Scotland....
$25.00
Atelier Ryza 2: Official Visual Collection
The alchemist Ryza and her friends had gone their separate ways, but by chance they have found each other once again. Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy explores new regions from mythical ruins to deep dungeons in...
$49.99
Atelier Ryza: Official Visual Collection Vol 1
With light and shadow woven together, an unforgettable adventure awaits! Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout combines alchemy and combat for a unique JRPG experience.Atelier Ryza: Official Visual Collection compiles the gorgeous artwork behind this refreshing entry in...
$49.99
The Beginner’s Guide to Procreate: Everything You Need to Know to Master Digital Art
Creative Tools, Resources and Tutorials to Help You Put the Pro in ProcreateStart your digital art journey the right way with this incredible collection of all the know-how, tools and techniques you need to jump head first into Procreate®. Digital...
$23.99
Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Lot of People
Four decades of participatory art, films, sculpture and more from the iconic Relational Aesthetics pioneer Accompanying the first US survey and largest exhibition to date dedicated to Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE traces four decades of Tiravanija’s...
$55.00
Ellsworth Kelly: Colors for a Large Wall: MoMA One on One Series
Jodi Hauptman examines the procedures and context behind Kelly's formative 1951 abstraction Ellsworth Kelly’s landmark 1951 work Colors for a Large Wall is the culmination of an extraordinarily productive moment in the artist’s early career, a time when he developed his singular...
$14.95
Shigetaka Kurita: Emoji: MoMA One on One Series
On the development of emoji, from their creation by the legendary Japanese designer to their present-day global ubiquity Created in 1998 by Shigetaka Kurita (born 1972), a young designer at the Japanese telecom company NTT DOCOMO, emoji act as the...
$14.95
Gus Wagner: Globe Trotter and Hand Tattoo Artist
A visual history of the life of Augustus “Gus” Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art history from the 1890s to the 1930s.In 1897, Gus embarked on a four-year career as a...
$34.99
The Art of Playful Lettering: A Super-Fun, Super-Creative, and Super-Joyful Guide to Uplifting Words and Phrases - Includes Bonus Drawing Lessons
Hand lettering just got a whole lot more fun with this instructional guide from professional lettering artist Dawn Nicole Warnaar. This comprehensive book, perfect for beginners and experienced lettering artists alike, begins with three foundational lettering styles and then expands...
$29.99
Find Your Flow: A Beginner's Guide to Unlocking Creativity through Intuitive Fluid Art with Alcohol Ink & More
Learn how to lean in to your unique style of creativity with this fluid art instruction book that combines creative inspiration and soulful introspection with practical instruction.Author and licensed psychotherapist Jessica Young is your expert, empathetic guide to developing your...
$29.00