ART / American / African American
Showing results 1-10 of 16
Filter Results OPEN +
Glenn Ligon
ISBN: 9780262052627
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 21, 2026
How contemporary artist Glenn Ligon’s expansive body of work mines American history and literature to ask critical questions about modern culture.
Black Elegies
Meditations on the Art of Mourning
ISBN: 9780262551724
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2025
A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it.
David Hammons
ISBN: 9780262549363
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 28, 2025
The first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons.
Martine Syms
She Mad
ISBN: 9781915609335
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: June 4, 2024
A source book documenting five episodes of Martine Syms's fragmented imagined television series, She Mad.
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?
A Series of Open Questions
ISBN: 9783956796593
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
Hugh Hayden
American Vernacular
ISBN: 9780262047999
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural assimilation, as well as the construction of nature.
Donald Rodney
Autoicon
ISBN: 9781846382574
Publisher: Afterall Books
Pub Date: June 6, 2023
An illustrated examination of Donald Rodney's seminal digital media work Autoicon (1997–2000).
A Black Gaze
Artists Changing How We See
ISBN: 9780262546058
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 21, 2023
Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see—and see Blackness in particular—anew.
Kara Walker
ISBN: 9780262544474
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
Selected texts that survey the full range of Kara Walker's artistic practice, emphasizing the work itself rather than the debates and controversies around it.
In the Black Fantastic
ISBN: 9780262047258
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 6, 2022
A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent.
Glenn Ligon
ISBN: 9780262052627
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 21, 2026
How contemporary artist Glenn Ligon’s expansive body of work mines American history and literature to ask critical questions about modern culture.
Black Elegies
Meditations on the Art of Mourning
ISBN: 9780262551724
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 18, 2025
A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it.
David Hammons
ISBN: 9780262549363
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 28, 2025
The first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons.
Martine Syms
She Mad
ISBN: 9781915609335
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: June 4, 2024
A source book documenting five episodes of Martine Syms's fragmented imagined television series, She Mad.
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?
Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?
A Series of Open Questions
ISBN: 9783956796593
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation.
Hugh Hayden
American Vernacular
ISBN: 9780262047999
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural assimilation, as well as the construction of nature.
Donald Rodney
Autoicon
ISBN: 9781846382574
Publisher: Afterall Books
Pub Date: June 6, 2023
An illustrated examination of Donald Rodney's seminal digital media work Autoicon (1997–2000).
A Black Gaze
Artists Changing How We See
ISBN: 9780262546058
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 21, 2023
Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see—and see Blackness in particular—anew.
Kara Walker
ISBN: 9780262544474
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
Selected texts that survey the full range of Kara Walker's artistic practice, emphasizing the work itself rather than the debates and controversies around it.
In the Black Fantastic
ISBN: 9780262047258
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 6, 2022
A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent.