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Art and Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Thami Mnyele's life spanned the era of apartheid. He was born the same year the National Party won office and came of age in a time (the 1960s) a...
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Black Broadway in Washington, DC
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was kn...
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San Francisco Lithographer, Volume 14: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Grafton Tyler Brown--whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American--finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. W...
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Wilderness Dreaming: Memoir of a Wildlife Photographer
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Greg du Toit recounts his fascinating life having spent decades as an African Wildlife Photographer, including incredible once-in-a-lifetime experi...
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Brummett Echohawk: Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the Europe...
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Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A lyrical and biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin—the best-known African American artist of his time—Primitive offers...
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Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem: An Artist's Life
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a profess...
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Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem: An Artist's Life
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a profess...
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Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Ahmed Hussein and the History of Egyptian Development
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Johnson's book provides the rich and untold story of the architect behind Egypt's inspired and highly successful social reform policies. The Rura...
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A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /“This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered ...
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /“A visual document, engaging the eye with a volcanic profusion of penned-and-painted imagery.” —New York Times Published in its entirety, Frida ...
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I Always Knew: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother Barbara Ch...
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I Can't Forget the Bomb: Barefoot Gen and the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was six years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of Hiroshima. In this memoir, Nakazawa recounts his wa...
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Josef Albers in Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Albers in the promised land of abstract art" the little-known influence of Mexico"Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art," Josef Albers ...
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Nonbinary: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge--now in pape...
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Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The first book to chart Scott Burton's performance art and sculpture of the 1970s. Scott Burton (1939-89) created performance art and sculpture th...
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Ousmane Sembène: The Making of a Militant Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. Though Sembène has persistent...
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Lelooska: The Life of a Northwest Coast Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Don Smith - or Lelooska, as he was usually called - was a prominent Native American artist and storyteller in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1933 o...
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Romaine Brooks: A Life
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /This impressive collection brings to light the works of international scholars, some previously unavailable to an English-language audience. With n...
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The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigm...
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Pop Out: Queer Warhol
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well kn...
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Darger's Resources
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Henry Darger (1892-1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he wrote a 15,145...
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Smoke and Souvenirs: The Essence of Charles Demuth
PaperbackOriginal price $12.75 - Original price $12.75Original price $12.75$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Already, Demuth is a legend. Funny how a man can disappear.... There is left only the smoke, the souvenir--the essence, I suppose you could call it...
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Gene Bilbrew Revealed: The Unsung Legacy of a Fetish Art Pioneer
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With hundreds of rare and extraordinary images culled from his influential 24-year career, this volume illustrates the story of the first black car...
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