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Black Elegies

Meditations on the Art of Mourning

by Kimberly Juanita Brown

ISBN: 9780262551724

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 18, 2025

A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it.

David Hammons

Edited by Kellie Jones

ISBN: 9780262549363

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 28, 2025

The first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons.

Martine Syms

She Mad

by Martine Syms

Edited by Axel Wieder

ISBN: 9781915609335

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: June 4, 2024

A source book documenting five episodes of Martine Syms's fragmented imagined television series, She Mad.

Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage?

A Series of Open Questions

Edited by Jacqueline Francis and Jeanne Gerrity

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

Edited by Sarah J. Montross

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

by Richard Birkett

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

by Tina M. Campt

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

Edited by Vanina Géré

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.