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  • Set Me Free

    The Good News of God’s Relentless Pursuit (Poetry and Essays)

    by Lecrae Moore ...
    Do you feel like you live life looking in from the outside? From the way you speak, to the color of your skin, to the way you vote, or the way you pray, you don't fit the mold. And yet you find yourself still trying to prove yourself to others. In Set Me Free, New York Times bestselling author Lecrae invites you on a poetic and artistic exploration of how you can persevere against the lies of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Day of the Dead

    The History of a Celebration

    A stunning bilingual, illustrated, and photographic account of a celebrated Mexican traditionThe lively Mexican holiday of Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) brings together sorrow and laughter, drawing from indigenous traditions of celebrating one’s ancestors and loved ones who have been lost. It’s a day of serenity, family, and exuberant creativity, where sugar and skulls can exist side by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • A Book about Ray

    by Ellen Levy ...
    The first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” was notorious for the elaborate games he played with the institutions of the art world, soliciting their attention even as he rejected their invitations. In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Black, Queer, and Untold

    A New Archive of Designers, Artists, and Trailblazers

    by Jon Key ...
    Growing up in Seale, Alabama as a Black Queer kid, then attending the Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate, Jon Key hungered to see himself in the fields of Art and Design. But in lectures, critiques, and in the books he read, he struggled to see and learn about people who intersected with his identity or who GOT him. So he started asking himself questions:What did it mean to be a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience

    An illustrated edition of The 1619 Project, with newly commissioned artwork and archival images, The New York Times Magazine's award-winning reframing of the American founding and its contemporary echoes, placing slavery and resistance at the center of the American story.Here, in these pages, Black art provides refuge. The marriage of beautiful, haunting and profound words and imagery creates an ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Liberation Literature

    Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton

    A monumental collection by one of America's greatest authors of children's literature — and the launch of a new imprint, ReLIT, that republishes lost classics for a modern readership!Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) was not only one of the most magnificent writers who ever lived — winning honors such as the Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor, National Book Award, and the Coretta Scott King Award for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Adrian Piper

    Funk Lessons

    Series series Afterall Books / One Work
    On Adrian Piper's radical pedagogy of transgression and the importance of soul and funk music in the African American struggle for emancipation.From 1982 to 1984, Adrian Piper staged a number of audience-interactive performances in universities or museum settings, under the title Funk Lessons. Using the didactic format of a "lesson" (including characteristic paraphernalia such as blackboards), ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Indigenous War Painting of the Plains

    An Illustrated History

    Series Book 283 - The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art—narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical, the paintings were worn and lived in by the men whose war exploits they portrayed, and were made to be “read” by the public at large. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Julio Galán

    The Art of Performative Transgression

    From his provincial origins in the small northern Mexico town of Múzquiz, Coahuila, to his meteoric rise in Manhattan's East Village art scene, to having achieved international standing at the time of his early death at forty-seven, Julio Galán was radically transgressive. The artist extended contemporary Mexican painting beyond the cultural criticism of Neo-Mexicanism (neomexicanismo), redefining ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Contact: Art and the Pull of Print

    Series Book 740 - Bollingen Series
    A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of printIn process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an image between surfaces, under pressure, followed by release. Contact reveals how the physical ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Royal Inca Tunic

    A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece

    The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system. But very little is really known about it. The Royal Inca Tunic reconstructs the history of this enigmatic object, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902

    Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figuresIn this volume, liberally seasoned with period illustrations, Yoshinobu Hakutani has collected and annotated a rich selection of Theodore Dreiser's pre-fame writings on the cultural milieu of his day.In these brief essays, Dreiser sallies into the vibrant world of creative work in turn-of-the-century America. He ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Corky Lee's Asian America

    Fifty Years of Photographic Justice

    by Corky Lee ...
    **A collection of over 200 breathtaking photos celebrating the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, from a beloved photographer who sought to change the world, one photograph at a time“For generations, Corky taught us how to see ourselves—as individuals and as a community.”—Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Stay TrueKnown throughout his lifetime as the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Migration Letters

    Poems

    Series Book 5 - Raised Voices
    A poetry collection that reflects on intimate aspects of Black history, culture, and identity, revealing an uncommon gaze on working-class Philadelphia from the 1960s to the present dayIn 55 poems, Migration Letters straddles the personal and public with particular, photorealistic detail to identify what, over time, creating a home creates in ourselves. Drawn from her experiences of being born in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Popol Vhu

    by Steven Selby ...
    Set in a new world recently created by the Plumed Serpent and Hurikan the Mayan Gods of Creation, the Popol Vuh is the story of how the first humans were created. It is an epic story of the struggle of good over evil set in the oasis of this new world. From the only four remaining Mayan codices, scholars believe that the original Popol Vuh was a collection of intricate calculations involving the ... Read more

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  • The Space of Latin American Women Modernists

    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    This book offers a fresh reading of Latin American modernism through the lenses of gender and space. By analysing the contributions of eight contemporaneous women – four writers and four plastic artists – it reveals how they constructed and conceived of their identities as cultural practitioners through distinctly spatial tactics. Organised around four spatial themes (domestic architecture, the ... Read more

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  • The History of Art in North America

    Indigenous peoples in North America boast a rich and diverse tapestry of artistic traditions that reflect their unique cultural identities, histories, and spiritual connections to the land. This exploration delves into the multifaceted world of Indigenous art, encompassing a wide array of visual languages, symbolism, and crafts that have been passed down through generations. ... Read more

    $6.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Art in Latin America

    The pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca encompass a rich tapestry of artistic traditions that flourished across the Americas long before the arrival of European explorers. Spanning vast geographical regions and diverse cultural landscapes, these civilizations left behind a legacy of magnificent art and artifacts that offer insights into their complex societies, spiritual ... Read more

    $6.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Temporary Monuments

    Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise

    How art played a central role in the design of America’s racial enterprise—and how contemporary artists resist it.Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monuments in the United States, Rebecca Zorach carefully examines the place of art in the occupation of land and the upholding of White power ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Learn American Calligraphy

    The Complete Book of Lettering, History, and Design

    Take a visual trip around the United States, with stop-offs in many locations and insights on every page, and illuminate the past and future of American calligraphy.For centuries, American calligraphers have accepted the legacy of the classic Roman, Gothic, and Italic calligraphy they inherited from Europe without realizing that there are more alphabet treasures to be found in a larger pool of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Mis-Education of the Negro: The Original 1933 Unabridged And Complete Edition (Carter G. Woodson Classics)

    The thesis of Woodson's book is that Black people of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes Black people to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what they were ... Read more

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  • The Art of Remembering

    Essays on African American Art and History

    Series series The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
    In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of "rememory"—the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and self-representation that have been purposefully set aside, actively ignored, and disremembered. In ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami

    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America.Jana Evans Braziel argues that Caribbean and Latinx street artists define and visually mark the city of Miami as a diasporic, transnational ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity

    Framing the Twentieth Century

    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Art
    The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person.By choosing human subjects, spaces, and aesthetics excluded from the Lettered City, each of the photographers discussed in this ... Read more

    $52.99 USD