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The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /A groundbreaking method for writing art history, using the language of geometry. How do we embark on a history of art from the assumption of a glo...
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A Picture Gallery of the Soul
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A vivid and moving celebration of the ways that Black Americans have shaped and been shaped by photography, from its inception to the present day. ...
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Hugh Hayden: American Vernacular
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95Original price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The first-ever monograph on American artist Hugh Hayden, whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race, and cultural ...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This landmark volume tells the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat from the intimate perspective of his family, intertwining his artistic endeavors wit...
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Pieces of a Man
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /'Pieces of a Man' brings together 25 years of street photographs by noted American photographer Jamel Shabazz."Beginning in Brooklyn's tight-knit n...
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Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display: Exhibition Histories 13
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A critical anthology on the mediation of Blackness through pivotal historical art exhibitionsThe 13th volume of Afterall Books' Exhibition Historie...
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Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The acclaimed overview of Black abstract art, now in an expanded edition with nearly 100 additional color platesThe Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of ...
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The Art of Jazz: A Visual History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even i...
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When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, CapeTown, When We See Us presents a comprehensive exploration of Black representation thr...
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Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /What’s new, now and next from contemporary Black artists This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the v...
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Kara Walker: White Shadows in Blackface
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Themes and motifs in the art of Kara Walker, from blackface to abjection, by a leading art historianIn 2002, Kara Walker was selected to represent ...
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Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Known for her expansive multidisciplinary approach to art making Vancouver-based Dana Claxton, who is Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), has investigated not...
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Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region...
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Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoglu
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish repu...
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Marta Palau
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Alongside colleagues like Francisco Toledo and Cecilia Vicu a, Mexican artist Marta Palau has broken ground in late-twentieth and early-twenty-firs...
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The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Brazilian Modernism, 1954-1964 Volume 7
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of Neoconcretism, Mario...
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Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas. Printmakers have conspired, historically,...
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The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader: Writings, Interviews, and Critical Responses
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) burst onto the art scen...
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A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /An important examination of how artists have grappled with anti-Black violence and its representations from the late nineteenth century to the pres...
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The Romare Bearden Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrigh...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat. 40th Ed.
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with 1980s New York, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag ...
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Theories of the Nonobject: Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, 1944-1969 / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Theories of the Nonobject investigates the crisis of the sculptural and painterly object in the concrete, neoconcrete, and constructivist practic...
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Infrastructure and Form: The Global Networks of Indian Contemporary Art, 1991-2008
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /In the 1990s and 2000s, contemporary art in India changed radically in form, as an art world once dominated by painting began to support installati...
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Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings and Prints
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00Original price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Keiko Hara offers a detailed exploration of the prolific artist's unwavering commitment to painting, and her unique form of Japanese woodblock prin...
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