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Culture Type (African American Art)

A blog focused on visual art from a Black perspective, Culture Type  explores the intersection of art, history, and culture. Read More at culturetype.com

Culture Type Picks: Best Black Art Books of 2020 VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
Elijah Pierce's America
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night
Black Futures
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
Noah Davis
I Can Make You Feel Good: Tyler Mitchell
Samuel Fosso: Autoportrait
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition
Mark Bradford: End Papers
Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop
Fall 2020: Notable New Books Focused on Black Visual Art VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
Barkley L. Hendricks: Basketball
Harold Neal and Detroit African American Artists: 1945 Through the Black Arts Movement
Adam Pendleton
Writing in Space, 1973-2019
Colored People Time
Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View
Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
You Next: Reflections in Black Barbershops
Stanley Whitney
Liquor Store Theatre
Going There: Black Visual Satire
Terry Adkins: Resounding
Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
Seen: Edmonia Lewis

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New & Recent African American Art Books VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)
I Can Make You Feel Good: Tyler Mitchell
Noah Davis
Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
Horace Pippin, American Modern
Jean-Michel Basquiat. 40th Ed.
Stanley Whitney: Afternoon Paintings
Mark Bradford: End Papers
Liquor Store Theatre
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium
Terry Adkins: Resounding
Transcendence: (American Landscape Painting, Painter Richard Mayhew Art Book)
Charles Gaines: Palm Trees and Other Works
Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
Black Female Artists VIEW LIST (29 BOOKS)
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
Liquor Store Theatre
Writing in Space, 1973-2019
Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer
Mickalene Thomas: I Can't See You Without Me
Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs
Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires
Lorna Simpson Collages: (Art Books, Contemporary Art Books, Collage Art Books)
Ellen Gallagher: Accidental Records
Ellen Gallagher & Esgar Cleijne: Liquid Intelligence
Kara Walker: Hyundai Commission
Kara Walker: Figa
Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker
Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen

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African & African American Photography VIEW LIST (39 BOOKS)
Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph
Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View
I Can Make You Feel Good: Tyler Mitchell
Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement
Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects
Dawoud Bey on Photographing People and Communities: The Photography Workshop Series
Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs
Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph
Gordon Parks: Muhammad Ali
Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem
Gordon Parks: The New Tide: Early Work 1940-1950
Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument
Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
Lyle Ashton Harris: Excessive Exposure: The Complete Chocolate Portraits
Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs: Selections from the Ektachrome Archive

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African American Painters VIEW LIST (37 BOOKS)
Stanley Whitney: Afternoon Paintings
Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting
Mark Bradford: End Papers
Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day
Mark Bradford: Pickett's Charge
Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth
Mark Bradford: Merchant Posters
Mark Bradford
Noah Davis
Barkley L. Hendricks: Basketball
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool
Barkley L. Hendricks: Landscape Paintings
Barkley L. Hendricks: Works on Paper
More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979-1989
Jack Whitten

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Children's Books By and About African American Artists VIEW LIST (30 BOOKS)
Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art
Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!
Jacob Lawrence in the City
Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem
The Great Migration: An American Story
Harriet and the Promised Land
Meet the Artist: Frank Bowling
Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt
The Quilts of Gee's Bend
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe
Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist

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Iconic 20th Century African American Artists VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)
Charles White: Black Pope
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
American Struggle: Teens Respond to Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence
Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence + Black Mountain College
Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence
Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis
An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
The Romare Bearden Reader
Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension
Romare Bearden, American Modernist
Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico
Contemporary African Art VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists
Contemporary African Art: Second Edition
Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from the Walther Collection
Events of the Self
El Anatsui: Art and Life
Dak'art: The Biennale of Dakar and the Making of Contemporary African Art
African Cosmologies: Photography, Time and the Other
Africa Under the Prism: Contemporary African Photography from Lagosphoto Festival
Books & Catalogs Feat. Multiple African American Artists VIEW LIST (23 BOOKS)
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
Harold Neal and Detroit African American Artists: 1945 Through the Black Arts Movement
Colored People Time
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art
My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South
I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
Common Wealth: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem
Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas
Outliers and American Vanguard Art

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