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Nordic Utopia?
African Americans in the Twentieth Century
Features the experiences of African American artists in Nordic Europe
During the twentieth century, Black Americans visited and lived in Nordic countries, performing, studying, working, and seeking adventure, love, freedom to explore sexuality, and distance from...
ISBN: 9798987929346
more detailsDetermined to Be
The Sculpture of John Rhoden
This richly illustrated book celebrates the groundbreaking work of an African American sculptor
Determined to Be explores the work of prizewinning American sculptor John Walter Rhoden (1916–2001). When Rhoden was young, his talent caught the attention...
ISBN: 9798987929322
more detailsBarbara Earl Thomas
The Illuminated Body
Features work across a wide range of artistic mediums including paper, glass, and Tyvek
A talented visual storyteller, Barbara Earl Thomas has drawn from history, literature, folklore, mythology, and biblical stories over her forty-year career to...
ISBN: 9798987929315
more detailsStitching Love and Loss
A Gee's Bend Quilt
A meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace
In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter...
ISBN: 9780295751603
more detailsBarbara Earl Thomas
The Geography of Innocence
Barbara Earl Thomas’s new body of work carries within it the sediments of history and grapples with race and the color line. At the heart of it lies a story of life and death, hope...
ISBN: 9780932216786
more detailsJacob Lawrence
The American Struggle
This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence’s radical way of transforming history into art by looking at...
ISBN: 9780295747040
more detailsWanted: Ed Bereal
For Disturbing the Peace
Born in Riverside, California in 1937 and profoundly affected by World War II, Ed Bereal made significant contributions to assemblage and performance arts in Los Angeles during the early 1960s through 1980s. A consummate draftsman...
ISBN: 9780578486932
more detailsThe Unicorn Incorporated
Curtis R. Barnes
The Unicorn Incorporated celebrates the work and career of Seattle artist Curtis R. Barnes. For over five decades, Barnes has worked as an artist, illustrator, muralist, and community advocate. In his sculpture, painting, and drawing,...
ISBN: 9780962460289
more detailsWilliam H. Johnson
An American Modern
"My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and...
ISBN: 9780295991481
more detailsElizabeth Catlett
An American Artist in Mexico
Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated as a visually eloquent expression of African American identity and pride...
ISBN: 9780295985459
more detailsNever Late for Heaven
Never Late for Heaven chronicles an odyssey in American art and social events beginning with the often-romanticized Harlem Renaissance and traveling through the Great Depression and beyond. Gwen Knight’s story reveals the life and the...
ISBN: 9780295983127
more detailsThe Complete Jacob Lawrence
Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence AND Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne
This two-volume set, including Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence and Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne, is the definitive publication on the work of artist Jacob...
ISBN: 9780295979632
more detailsNew Land, New Lives
Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest
As a painter and writer of prodigious talent and remarkable visionary sensibility, Barbara Earl Thomas continues to spark increasing attention both regionally and nationally. The granddaughter of southern sharecroppers who migrated to Seattle in the...
ISBN: 9780295977119
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