| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People
Edited by Jeffreen Hayes. Foreword by Chana Sheldon. Text by Leslie Guy. A Chicago Tribune 2020 holiday gift guide pick
AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) was founded on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 by a group of five young Black artists. Today, it is >>more
Gregory Miller/Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
ISBN 9781941366301
US $49.95 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 01/05/2021 Out of stock
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|  Afro-Atlantic Histories
Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo. Text by Ayrson Heráclito, Deborah Willis, Hélio Menezes, Kanitra Fletcher, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Vivian Crockett. Published with Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum
Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636810027
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Hbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 400 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  In Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr, provides a history and critical analysis of techno and adjacent electronic music such as house and electro, showing how the genre has been >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781734489736
US $20.00 CAN $27.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 432 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/23/2022 In stock
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|  Black American Portraits
Edited with text by Christine Y. Kim and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews. Forewords by Mary Schmidt Campbell and Michael Govan. Text by Hilton Als, Bridget R. Cooks, Ilene Susan Fort, Dhyandra Lawson, Jeffrey C. Stewart. Afterword by Naima J. Keith. Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Spanning over two centuries from around 1800 to the present day, Black American Portraits chronicles the ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselves in >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636810164
US $49.95 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 222 color.
Pub Date: 01/17/2023 In stock
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|  Black Fire! New Spirits!
Edited by Stuart Baker. At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm and thought and an ideology >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780957260016
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 12.5 x 12.5 in. / 192 pgs / 75 color / 125 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock
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|  Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style
Edited with text by Jason Jules. Art direction and design by Graham Marsh. Named one of the best books of 2021 by The Financial Times
From the most avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists and poets to architects, philosophers and writers, Black Ivy: A Revolt in Style charts a period >>more
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526822
US $55.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 100 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/21/2021 In stock
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|  Published in three issues between 1978 and 1979, Black Phoenix: Journal of Contemporary Art & Culture in the Third World (the subtitle was changed to Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture for its >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781736534670
US $24.00 CAN $33.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 104 pgs / 59 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/10/2022 In stock
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|  Following the eponymous exhibition at Gray Gallery, this publication gathers a selection of multimedia works by 15 artists exploring historical and emergent instances of Black space, including contributions by Dawoud Bey, McArthur Binion, Nick Cave, >>more
GRAY
ISBN 9798985761313
US $50.00 CAN $72.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 100 pgs / 55 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/13/2024 In stock
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|  This book is a comprehensive investigation of photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the “colonial gaze” as its starting point, Events of the Social looks at >>more
Steidl/The Walther Collection
ISBN 9783969990872
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 117 color / 115 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/17/2023 In stock
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|  Four Generations
Edited by Courtney J. Martin. Introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell. Text by Christopher Bedford, Joost Bosland, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Andrianna Campbell, Alexis Clark, Nicholas Cullinan, Elvira Dyangani, Jacqueline Francis, Gary Garrels, Mark Godfrey, Thelma Golden, Jamillah James, Hannah Johnston, Eungie Joo, Norman L. Kleeblatt, Thomas J. Lax, Courtney J. Martin, Lucy H. Partman, Lawrence Rinder, James Rondeau, Katy Siegel, Franklin Sirmans, Philippe Vergne, Zoe Whitley. Jessica Morgan in conversation with Leonardo Drew, Jen Mergel with Shinique Smith, Courtney J. Martin with Mark Bradford & Charles Gaines, Gary Garrels with Kevin Beasley, Pamela Joyner & Alfred Giuffrid with Courtney J. Martin. Afterword by Pamela Joyner & Alfred Giuffrida. The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art is widely recognized as one of the most significant collections of modern and contemporary work by artists of the African diaspora and from the continent of Africa itself. Four >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9781941366264
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Hbk, 8 x 10.25 in. / 528 pgs / 325 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock
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|  Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics
Edited with text by Dhyandra Lawson. Text by Dionne Brand, Ytasha Womack. Additional contributions by Sammy Baloji, Widline Cadet, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Frida Orupabo. Afterword by Michael Govan. Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
This book was born out of frustration with art histories that emphasize Black artists’ resilience over the aesthetic impact of their work. The experiences of oppression Black people >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636810898
US $49.95 CAN $73.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 12/10/2024 In stock
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|  In Search of African American Space
Edited with text by Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, Carrie Eastman, Ashley Simone. Foreword by Tina M. Campt. Text by Sara Caples, Radiclani Clytus, Yolande Daniels, Ann Holder, Everardo Jefferson, Walis Johnson, Elizabeth Kennedy, Rodney Leon, Marisa Williamson. Richly illustrated with vintage adverts, maps, posters and architectural plans, and organized thematically, this anthology, edited by Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff at the Pratt Institute in New York, is divided into three sections. The >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786338
US $35.00 CAN $52.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 148 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2020 In stock
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|  Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces
Edited with text by Thomas J. Lax, Lilia Rocio Taboada. Text by Eric Booker, Brandon Eng, Kellie Jones, Yelena Keller, Marielle Ingram, Legacy Russell. Interview with Linda Goode Bryant by Thelma Golden. Just Above Midtown, or JAM, was an art gallery and self-described laboratory for experimentation led by Linda Goode Bryant that foregrounded African American artists and artists of color. Open from 1974 to 1986, it was >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York/The Studio Museum in Harlem
ISBN 9781633451377
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 184 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2022 In stock
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|  Others Shall Come
Edited with text by Armelle Dakouo, Allison Glenn, Jeanne Mercier. This publication presents a multifaceted vision of Africa that transcends historical borders. The book revolves around the impact of curatorial voices in the contemporary art world, particularly with regard to the inclusion and representation of >>more
JBE Books/AKAA
ISBN 9782365680783
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Hbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/16/2024 In stock
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|  This visual gift book introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. The selections included >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145481
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Hbk, 6.5 x 7.75 in. / 112 pgs / 48 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2024 In stock
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|  Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971
Edited with text by Doris Berger, Rhea L. Combs. Foreword by Whoopi Goldberg. Text by Donald Bogle, Cara Caddoo, Terri Simone Francis, Michael Boyce Gillespie, J. Raúl Guzmán, Shola Lynch, Ron Magliozzi, Ellen C. Scott, Jacqueline N. Stewart. Published with Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
From the dawn of the medium onward, Black filmmakers have helped define American cinema. Black performers, producers and directors—Bert Williams, Oscar Micheaux, Herb Jeffries, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Ruby >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636810515
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Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 80 color / 182 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/18/2022 In stock
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|  Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California
Foreword by Julie Rodrigues Widholm. Edited with text by Elaine Y. Yau. Text by Daphne A. Brooks, Bridget R. Cooks, Basil Kincaid, Eli Leon, Adia Millett, Matthew Villar Miranda, Wendy M. Thompson. Conversation with Sharbreon Plummer, Carolyn Mazloomi, A’donna Richardson. Published with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
The first publication dedicated to historical African American quilts in California, Routed West traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636811598
US $65.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 280 color.
Pub Date: 05/20/2025 In stock
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|  Soul of a Nation
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. Published with Tate.
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 >>more
D.A.P.
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
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|  Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers
Text by Maxwell L. Anderson, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, Paul Goodwin. For generations, Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices, they have created masterpieces in clay, driftwood, roots, soil, and recycled and cast-off objects >>more
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781912520954
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Hbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 144 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 05/09/2023 Out of stock
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|  The Cricket
Edited by A.B. Spellman, Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka. Preface by A.B. Spellman. Introduction by David Grundy. Edited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A.B. Spellman and Larry Neal between 1968 and 1969, and published by Baraka’s New Jersey–based JIHAD productions around the time of the Newark Riots, this experimental music magazine >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691101
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 184 pgs / 2 duotone / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/13/2022 In stock
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|  The Journey: New Positions in African Photography
Edited with text by Simon Njami, Sean O’Toole. Text by Akinbode Akinbiyi, Lucienne Bestall, Nicola Brandt, Frédérique Chapuis, John Fleetwood, Emmanuel Iduma, Katrin Peters-Klaphake, Cara Snyman. A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2021
This volume presents the work of 17 contemporary African photographers, all of whom are alumni of the decade-long mentorship program in Johannesburg, South Africa, helmed >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735606822
US $69.95 CAN $97.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 342 pgs / 145 color / 56 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 Out of stock
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|  The Soul of a Nation Reader
Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Allie Biswas. Afterword by Zoé Whitley. A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick
What is “Black art”? This question was posed and answered time and time again between 1960 and 1980 by artists, curators and critics deeply affected by this >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9781941366325
US $39.95 CAN $55.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 628 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 In stock
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|  The Theater of Refusal
Edited by Rhea Anastas, Charles Gaines, Jamillah James, Eric Golo Stone. Text by Rhea Anastas, Maurice Berger, Charles Gaines, Catherine Lord, Fred Moten, et al. Published with Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart and The Brick.
In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted a category-breaking exhibition of Black artists from different generations, working across Fluxus, Conceptualism, assemblage, photography >>more
Dancing Foxes Press
ISBN 9781954947108
US $40.00 CAN $58.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 11 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Out of stock
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|  “There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now,” wrote James Baldwin. Published in conjunction with the >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145580
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 67 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2024 In stock
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|  In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single called "Deep in Vogue." Early the next year, Madonna had one of the biggest hits of her career, with the single "Vogue," >>more
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780955481765
US $39.99 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Flexi, 9 x 11.5 in. / 208 pgs / 40 color / 140 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists
Edited with essay by Antwaun Sargent. Text by Graham C. Boettcher, Jessica Bell Brown, Connie H. Choi, Anthony Graham, Lauren Haynes, Jamillah James, Thomas J. Lax, Hallie Ringle, Adeze Wilford, Gordon Dearborn Wilkins, Matt Wycoff. Interview with Bernard Lumpkin by Thelma Golden. A New York Times 2020 holiday gift guide pick
This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the >>more
D.A.P.
ISBN 9781942884590
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Hbk, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/22/2020 In stock
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