Academic Titles: Art

Henry James credited John Singer Sargent with a "knock-down insolence of talent." Among the painter's many renowned works, few deserve the phrase as much as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), one of Sargent's >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468607
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 262 pgs / 25 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock

At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African Americans since the abolition of slavery. In striking graphic visualisations and photographs (taken by >>more
Redstone Press
ISBN 9781942884538
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Flexi, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color / 54 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/29/2019 In stock

Ten adults—men and women, black and white—fight, flee or die over the twelve-foot span of American People Series #20: Die, as an interracial pair of children cowers unnoticed in their midst. While Faith Ringgold (born >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450677
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock

In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450400
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 77 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2017 In stock

In the period of radical change that was 1963–83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to make art that would stand as >>more
D.A.P./Tate
ISBN 9781942884170
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Hbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 203 color / 33 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock