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Carla Acevedo-Yates, ed.
Exh. cat. New York: DelMonico Books, 2022. 288 pp. Cloth $65.00 (978-1636810614)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, November 19, 2022–April 23, 2023; ICA Boston, October 5, 2023–February 24, 2024
May 3, 2023

Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates with Iris Colburn, Isabel Casso, and Nolan Jimbo, Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today ...

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Rebecca Peabody
Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. 216 pp.; 24 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780520288928)
September 9, 2022

Rebecca Peabody’s Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race is the first monograph solely about Kara Walker’s work since ...

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Rebecca Zorach
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 416 pp.; 124 color ills.; 1 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9781478001409)
May 2, 2022

In the final passages of Art for People’s Sake, Rebecca Zorach offers a remarkable reading of a photograph of a young man using shaving cream ...

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Kristina Wilson
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 264 pp.; 74 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780691208190)
March 4, 2022

In the past few decades, design history has productively turned toward investigations of gender. Partly as a result of this emphasis, proportionately ...

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Sarah Thomas
London and New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2019. 304 pp.; 168 ills. (9781913107055)
November 4, 2021

John Simpson’s The Captive Slave (1827, Art Institute of Chicago) graces the cover of Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition ...

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Joshua I. Cohen
Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 304 pp.; 83 color ills.; 18 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780520309685)
September 28, 2021

I winced the first time I read the title of this book. The cause of my trepidation was the quotation marks that enshrined “Black Art.” As a Black ...

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Shawnya L. Harris, ed.
Exh. cat. Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2021. 192 pp. Cloth $40.00 (9780915977468)
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, January 30–April 25, 2021; Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, June 19–September 12, 2021; Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 11, 2021–January 2, 2022
September 16, 2021

A week before Emma Amos: Color Odyssey was set to close and four days before Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict for the murder of George Floyd, I ...

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Aston Gonzalez
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 324 pp.; 36 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9781469659961)
September 9, 2021

In nineteenth-century America, images were powerful tools in the battle to confront slavery and racial oppression. Aston Gonzalez’s Visualizing ...

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Richard J. Powell
Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT: Hutchins Center for African & African American Research in association with Yale University Press, 2020. 240 pp.; 76 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300245745)
July 19, 2021

Darryl Dickson-Carr writes, “African American satire’s earliest purpose in both oral and written form was to lampoon the (il)logic of chattel ...

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Rebecca VanDiver
University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2020. 256 pp.; 51 color ills.; 37 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (9780271086040)
June 22, 2021

Rebecca VanDiver’s intersectional monograph on the iconic artist Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998) is a remarkable step forward in the expanding art ...

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Christine Y. Kim and Rujeko Hockley
Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Prestel, 2019. 320 pp.; 450 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9783791358741)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 3, 2019–September 7, 2020; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 24, 2020–January 31, 2021; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 25–August 8, 2021; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 16, 2021–March 6, 2022
June 1, 2021

Five years in the making and developed in close collaboration with the artist by Christine Y. Kim (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and Rujeko ...

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Nicole R. Fleetwood
Exh. cat. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 352 pp.; 95 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780674919228)
MoMA PS1, Queens, September 17, 2020–April 5, 2021
May 12, 2021

There is no inside/outside when it comes to the carceral state. Guest curated by Nicole R. Fleetwood at MoMA PS1 and accompanied by a catalog ...

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Hank Willis Thomas
Exh. cat. Contributions by Julia Dolan, Sara Krajewski, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and Kellie Jones. New York and Portland, OR: Aperture Foundation in association with Portland Art Museum, 2018. 256 pp.; 300 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781597114486)
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, October 12, 2019–January 12, 2020; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, February 8–July 13, 2020; Cincinnati Art Museum, September 4–November 8, 2020
May 3, 2021

The contributors to the exhibition catalog Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal . . . write with depth and acuity about the artist’s complex ...

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Wadsworth A. Jarrell
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 320 pp.; 89 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9781478000563)
March 30, 2021

AFRICOBRA: Experimental Art toward a School of Thought is a necessary source for the study of the Black Arts Movement. Wadsworth A. Jarrell ...

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Anne Monahan
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. 264 pp.; 96 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300243307)
March 16, 2021

Conceptions of race have limited the trajectory of American art history since its inception in the early nineteenth century. Anne Monahan reckons ...

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