Commemorate Black History Month with these 2019 Staff Picks

Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer

Published by Fondazione Prada.
Edited with text by Mario Mainetti, Chiara Costa, Elvira Dyangani Ose. Foreword by Miuccia Prada, Patrizio Bertelli. Text by Richard J. Powell, Deborah Willis, Kellie E. Jones.

Uneasy Dancer brings together over 80 works including installations, assemblages, collages and sculptures by the pioneering Los Angeles artist Betye Saar (born 1926) produced between 1966 and 2016. This handsomely designed volume presents Saar’s work as a copiously illustrated timeline, with numerous documentary images and exhibition details.

“Uneasy Dancer” is an expression Saar has used to define both herself and her artistic practice: “my work moves in a creative spiral with the concepts of passage, crossroads, death and rebirth, along with the underlying elements of race and gender.” Through her use of found objects, personal memorabilia and derogatory images that evoke denied or distorted narratives, Saar developed a powerful social critique that challenges racial and sexist stereotypes deeply rooted in American culture.

PUBLISHER
Fondazione Prada

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 10 in. / 320 pgs / 500 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/28/2017
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ISBN 9788887029673 SDNR30
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Black Fire! New Spirits!

Images of a Revolution: Radical Jazz in the USA 1960-75

Published by Soul Jazz Books.
Edited by Stuart Baker.

Vintage portraits of the giants of 1960s Free Jazz, from John Coltrane to Miles Davis

PUBLISHER
Soul Jazz Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12.5 x 12.5 in. / 192 pgs / 75 color / 125 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/31/2014
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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 65   

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ISBN 9780957260016 TRADE
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Charles White: Black Pope

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Text by Esther Adler.

The Chicago-born artist Charles White (1918–79) was celebrated during his lifetime for depictions of African-American men, women and children that acquired the name “images of dignity. White’s draftsmanship, his direct address of the social and political concerns of his time, and his commitment to media that gave his art wide circulation established him as a major artist, and one with significant influence both on his contemporaries and on later generations.

Beginning with White’s early days as an artist in the Chicago of the 1930s and ’40s, moving through his time spent developing his craft in New York in the late 1940s and ’50s, and closing with his final decades as a revered figure in Los Angeles, Charles White: Black Pope explores the artist’s practice and strategies through consideration of key works. It devotes particularly close examination to his late masterwork Black Pope (Sandwich Board Man)," in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. By creating visually compelling, ideologically complex works that engage audiences on many levels, White established himself as a key figure of his time, one whose work continues to resonate today."

Esther Adler is Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.5 in. / 64 pgs / 35 color.

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Pub Date 10/24/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 88   

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ISBN 9781633450271 TRADE
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Gordon Parks: The New Tide

Early Work 1940–1950

Published by Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art.
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip Brookman. Foreword by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Earl A. Powell III. Introduction by Sarah Lewis. Text by Maurice Berger, Philip Brookman, Richard J. Powell, Deborah Willis.

The emergence of a social conscience in rarely seen images from Parks' formative years

PUBLISHER
Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 304 pgs / 42 color / 126 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/20/2018
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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 16   

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ISBN 9783958294943 TRADE
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Jack Whitten: Odyssey

Sculpture 1963–2017

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Text by Katy Siegel, Kelly Baum, Jack Whitten, Richard Shiff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kellie Jones. Interview with Courtney Martin.

"Whitten's objects in carved wood and found materials revisit and reclaim the forms, rituals and spirituality of African sculpture." –Roberta Smith, New York Times

PUBLISHER
Gregory R. Miller & Co.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / 161 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/12/2018
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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 43   

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ISBN 9781941366172 TRADE
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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited by Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall. Text by Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Spears Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Crystal Williams, Kevin Young.

Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in context

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 77 color / 25 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/28/2017
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 15   

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ISBN 9781633450400 TRADE
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Jamel Shabazz: Sights in the City, New York Street Photographs

Published by Damiani.
Introduction by Marla Hamburg Kennedy. Interview by Cheryl Dunn.

Two decades of black-and-white New York street photography

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11.5 x 9.15 in. / 160 pgs / 70 color / 50 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/25/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 28   

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ISBN 9788862085229 TRADE
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Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968

Published by Damiani.
Edited by Steven Kasher. Text by Jill Freedman, John Edwin Mason, Aaron Bryant.

The climax of Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 141 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/27/2018
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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 39   

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ISBN 9788862085830 TRADE
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Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me

Published by Wexner Center for the Arts.
Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Text by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Michael Goodson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Antwaun Sargent.

Deconstructing the charged connections between sitter, artist and viewer

PUBLISHER
Wexner Center for the Arts

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 40 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/20/2018
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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 54   

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ISBN 9781881390572 TRADE
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Muhammad Ali: Fighter's Heaven 1974

Photographs by Peter Angelo Simon

Published by Reel Art Press.
Foreword by D.A. Pennebaker.

In this previously unpublished photo-essay, the legendary boxer Muhammed Ali is captured up close and unguarded in the run-up to the "Rumble in the Jungle"

PUBLISHER
Reel Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 105 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/23/2016
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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 26   

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ISBN 9781909526389 TRADE
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Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art

Published by Reel Art Press.
Edited by John Duke Kisch, Tony Nourmand. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Text by John Duke Kisch, Peter Doggett. Afterword by Spike Lee.

A visual feast, these images recount the diverse and historic journey of the Black film industry from the earliest days of Hollywood to the present day

PUBLISHER
Reel Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 320 pgs / 270 color / 30 bw.

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Pub Date 10/6/2014
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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 177   

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ISBN 9781909526068 TRADE
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Soul of a Nation

Art in the Age of Black Power

Published by D.A.P..
Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Zoé Whitley. Contributions by Linda Goode Bryant, Susan E. Cahan, David Driskell, Edmund Barry Gaither, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Samella Lewis.

African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers

PUBLISHER
D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 203 color / 33 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/26/2017
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ISBN 9781942884170 TRADE
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Voguing and the Ballroom Scene of New York 1989-92

Photographs by Chantal Regnault

Published by Soul Jazz Books.
Edited by Stuart Baker.

Harlem’s gay ball subculture of the late 1980s is superbly documented in this trove of previously unseen photographs.

PUBLISHER
Soul Jazz Books

BOOK FORMAT
Flexi, 9 x 11.5 in. / 208 pgs / 40 color / 140 bw.

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Pub Date 12/31/2011
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ISBN 9780955481765 TRADE
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Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts

Published by Badlands Unlimited.
By Aruna D'Souza.

"An exploratory case study in institutional racism as it has manifested in the New York City art world” —Brooklyn Rail

PUBLISHER
Badlands Unlimited

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 160 pgs.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/22/2018
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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 87   

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ISBN 9781943263141 TRADE
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