CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/23/2020

'Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists' is Back in Stock!

Vaughn Spann's "Staring back at you, rooted and unwavering" (2018) is reproduced from Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists, one of our top Holiday Gift Books for Art Lovers 2020, back in stock at last after the first printing sold out immediately upon initial release. Based on the renowned collection of Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi, this is a book for all serious home, academic and museum art libraries, presenting more than forty of the most interesting and influential rising Black artists today, alongside a host of artists from previous generations who helped pave the way. "The majority of the four hundred plus artworks in the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection provide a diverse reflection of the past decade in black artistic production," editor Antwaun Sargent writes. "The paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs, and drawings speak broadly to the notion of community as the site of multiple narratives, identities, and histories that, while rooted in the specific experiences of blackness, address the universal. By illuminating concerns and celebrations that abound inside the work, the art exposes the inner life of black communities—which has historically been erased and is still rarely acknowledged—in dynamic and empathetic ways."