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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.
Mirror Reflecting Darkly
The Rita Keegan Archive
ISBN: 9781912685912
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: October 26, 2021
Documenting the artistic practice of Rita Keegan: from exhibitions at major venues to everyday life as a working Black female artist.
Carrie Mae Weems
ISBN: 9780262538596
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 1, 2021
Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems and its place in the history of photography, African American art, and contemporary art.
Love and Ethnology
The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)
ISBN: 9783956795039
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: May 26, 2020
Essays, artistic text contributions, and curatorial statements on the German writer Hubert Fichte's fascination with Afro-diasporic arts and religions.
Glenn Ligon
Untitled (I Am a Man)
ISBN: 9781846381928
Publisher: Afterall Books
Pub Date: April 13, 2018
An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)—a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact.

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.
Mirror Reflecting Darkly
The Rita Keegan Archive
ISBN: 9781912685912
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: October 26, 2021
Documenting the artistic practice of Rita Keegan: from exhibitions at major venues to everyday life as a working Black female artist.
Carrie Mae Weems
ISBN: 9780262538596
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 1, 2021
Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems and its place in the history of photography, African American art, and contemporary art.
Love and Ethnology
The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)
ISBN: 9783956795039
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: May 26, 2020
Essays, artistic text contributions, and curatorial statements on the German writer Hubert Fichte's fascination with Afro-diasporic arts and religions.
Glenn Ligon
Untitled (I Am a Man)
ISBN: 9781846381928
Publisher: Afterall Books
Pub Date: April 13, 2018
An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988)—a quotation, an appropriated text turned into an artifact.