Resultados de búsqueda: American / African American from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. "An exploration of the visual representations of black culture, ranging from painting, sculpture and photography at the turn of the century, to racial and cultural identity used as artistic content in the 1980s and 1990s. Included are biographies of the many artists discussed. " - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction. The dark center; 1. Art, culture and "the souls of Black folk"; 2. Enter and exit the "new Negro"; 3. The cult of the people; 4. Pride, assimilation and dreams; 5. "Black is a color"; 6. Culture as currency; 7. Through a glass, diasporally.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2003. 114 pages, color illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of exhibition at Studio Museum in Harlem, October 15, 2003 to January. 4, 2004. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Roundtable conversation: Blake Bradford, Deborah Grant, Glenn Kaino, Peter Kang, Christine Y. Kim and Dominic Molon; Afro as am ., by Christine Y. Kim; Artists: Sanford Biggers, Iona Rozeal Brown, Patty Chang, Y. David Chung, David Diao, Sean Duffy, Ellen Gallagher, Rico Gatson, Luis Gispert, David Hammons, David Huffman, Arthur Jafa, Michael Joo, Glenn Kaino, Clarence Lin, Kori Newkirk, Paul Pfeiffer, Cynthia Wiggins, Roy Williams; Kung fusion: organize the 'hood under I-ching banners, by Vijay Prashad; The Black Asianphile, by Latasha Natasha Nevada Diggs.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Cumberland, MD: Reverie Publishing Company, 2004. Cloth, 144 pages, colour illustrations, portraits; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio.

Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. xii, 305 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Stated First Edition. "Between 1935 and 1942, photographers for the New Deal's Resettlement Administration-Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured in powerfully moving images the travail of the Great Depression and the ways of a people confronting radical social change. Those who speak of the special achievement of FSA photography usually have in mind such white icons as Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' or Walker Evans's Alabama sharecroppers. But some six thousand printed images, a tenth of FSA's total, included black figures or their dwellings. At last, Nicholas Natanson reveals both the innovative treatment of African Americans in FSA photographs and the agency's highly problematic use of these images once they had been created. While mono-dimensional treatments of blacks were common in public and private photography of the… Leer más

Seatlle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2012. 304 pages, illustrations; 16 cm. New and expanded edition. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. "This book spotlights over 100 comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels to feature black characters from all over the world over the last century, and the result is a fascinating journey to, if not enlightenment, then at least away from the horrendous caricatures of yore . . . Each strip, comic, or graphic novel is spotlighted via a compact but instructive 200-word essay and a representative illustration [in black and white]. The book is augmented by a context-setting introduction, an extensive source list and bibliography, and a foreword by Charles R. Johnson, the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and winner of the National Book Award for his 1990 novel Middle Passage." -Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 16mo.

New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2002. 124 pages, colour illustrations; 25 x 25 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition "Black romantic," at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, April 25 to June 23, 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: To be real, by Thelma Golden; Black romanticism: the will toward imagistic sovereignty, by Lowery Stokes Sims; Who will speak for us? A Utopian romance novelette, by Valerie Cassel; Types and tales: reading Black romantic, by Kelefa Sanneh; We've got a Love Jones, by Franklin Sirmans; All good: interview with Alonzo Adams, by LeRonn Brooks; Another hero: interview with Dean Mitchell, by Regina L. Woods; Strong men keep comin': interview with Kadir Nelson, by Malik Gaines; Faux real: interview with Kehinde Wiley, by Christine Y. Kim.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Hanover, NH and Seattle, WA: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in association with University of Washington Press, 2008. 374 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Issued in connection with an exhibition held March 8 to September 7, 2008, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and at later dates, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First paperback edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. Black Womanhood examines an especially charged icon - the black female body - and contemporary artists' interventions upon historical images of black women as exotic Others, erotic fantasies, and supermaternal… Leer más

Secaucus, NJ: Blue and Gray Press, 1989. 370 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. Subtitle on DJ: Black Involvement and Participation in the War Between the States. Includes excerpts from: The Negro in the American rebellion, by W. W. Brown; A history of the Negro troops in the war of the rebellion, by G. W. Williams; The Black phalanx, by J. T. Wilson; Reminiscences of my life in camp, by S. K. Taylor; Journal, by C. Forten; Life and public services of Martin R. Delaney, by F. A. Rollin; From the Virginia plantation to the national capitol, by J. M. Langston; [Writings], by F. Douglass.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019. 339 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured--and influenced--a critical moment in American history. Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and 60s: Martin Luther King Jr. riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at his nephew's killer. But from his position at the heart of the cultural revolution, Withers was simultaneously gathering information for the FBI. Withers traversed disparate worlds, from Black Power meetings to raucous Memphis nightclubs where Elvis brushed shoulders with B. B. King. In this gripping narrative history, Preston Lauterbach examines the complicated political and economic forces that supported… Leer más

New York and Berkeley, CA: Whitney Museum of American Art; University of California Press, 1998. 200 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 25, 1998 to January 3, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Like many other artists and musicians of the 1950s, Bob Thompson (1937-1966) found his voice in the novel hybrid forms that emerged from postwar American culture: Abstract Expressionism and abstract figuration, and jazz and rhythm and blues. This catalogue, the first comprehensive book on Thompson's work, accompanies a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and provides an opportunity to celebrate the brief but intense career of an artist who managed to create over a thousand works in the short span of seven years./ Thelma Golden is curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was the organizer… Leer más

Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2000. 80 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Monograph series; no. 29. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, November 12, 2000 to May 13, 2001. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xii, 305 pages, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "Since the 1980s, Los Angeles has become the most racially and economically divided city in the United States. In the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles, buildings in disrepair--the legacy of racial unrest. Moving beyond stereotypes of South Central's predominantly African American residents, Jo o H. Costa Vargas recounts his almost two years living in the district. Personal, critical, and disquieting, Catching Hell in the City of Angels examines the ways in which economic and social changes in the twentieth century have affected the black community, and powerfully conveys the experiences that bind and divide its people. Through compelling stories of South Central, including his own experience as an immigrant of color, Vargas presents portraits of four groups. He talks daily with women living in a low-income Watts apartment building; works with… Leer más

San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate, 2007. Cloth, x, 118 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. David C. Driskell series of African American art, vol. 6. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine bumped at the crown. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Introduction; Enduring roots; Living the Renaissance; Modern life and modern art; A man for all seasons; An enduring narrative; Charles Alston chronology; Index.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Morrow Junior, 1993. xxii, 106 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. First published 1963. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A collection of Christmas poems, songs, and stories relating to African Americans. Includes holiday recipes. Illustrated with woodcuts by Ashley Bryan.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Bryan, Ashley. 8vo.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiv, 281 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm. An acceptable reading copy, with highlighting on several pages. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. "Traces black artists' responses to racist imagery across two centuries, from early works by Henry O Tanner and Archibald J Motley Jr, in which African Americans are depicted with dignity, to contemporary works by Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles, in which derogatory images are recycled to controversial effect." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fair. 4to.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. 108 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Preface by Barbara A. Hudson; foreword by Robert Farris Thompson; introduction by Gerard C. Wertkin; art study essay by Stacy Hollander and Lee Kogan of the Museum of American Folk Art. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Benign acid staining to boards (the DJ's old mylar jacket was previously glued to the boards). Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The first published record of the work, life, and mysterious death of Ellis Ruley. Includes all of his 62 known works, plus an introduction by the director of the Museum of American Folk Art. Full color and black-and-white photographs." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi; Folk Art and Artists Ser., 1995. 72 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Photographs by D. C. Young. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First paperback edition.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Princeton, NJ: Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1992. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 23 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, 15 January to 23 February 1992. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

San Francisco, CA and Washington, D.C.: Bedford Arts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1990. 140 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 13 to March 25 and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, April 20 to June 25, 1990. With an essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and contributions by Janet Levine, Francis Martin, Jr., and Claudia Vess; edited by Christopher C. French. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings, otherwise very good. No writing in text. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Four years in the making, Facing History was organized by Guy C. McElroy, Jr., for The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The exhibition documents the ways in which artists have created a complicated and often ambivalent visual record of African Americans that has reinforced, and sometimes opposed, a variety of stereotypes of black identity. It also… Leer más

Chicago: Ampersand, Inc., 2009. Cloth, 206 pages, illustrations, map; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. Pt. 1. 1835-1850: The era of the acceptance of slavery; Pt. 2. 1850-1860: Restraining slavery becomes the issue; Pt. 3. 1860-1865: Emancipation; Triumph of the abolitionists.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to.