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Black Art & Design

This guide highlights resources pertaining to Black Art & Design, including items related to Black fashion, design, fine art, film, and photography.

Recommended Books on Fine Arts

Black Art Notes

Queering Post-Black Art

Blk Art

Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life

African Art Now

The Black Speculative Arts Movement

African Modernism in America

African American Art

The Routledge Companion to African American Art History

Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British art, 1965-2015 (SUNY Owned)

Global Africa Project

Mickalene Thomas

Black Art: A Cultural History

Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century

Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement

Black Post-Blackness: the Black Arts Movement and twenty-first-century aesthetics

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Black Art Ancestral Legacy: the African impulse in African-American art

The Soul of a Nation Reader: writings by and about Black American artists, 1960-1980

A Black Gaze

South of Pico: African American artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

I Too Sing America: the Harlem Renaissance at 100

My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black art from the American South

Muse: Mickalene Thomas

Kehinde Wiley

Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight

Harlem Renaissance

Now Dig This! : art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Art in Crisis: W.E.B. Du Bois and the struggle for African American identity and memory

African American Art and Artists

African-American Artists, 1929-1945

Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-century African American art from the George and Joyce Wein collection

Keeping It Unreal

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