Why African-American artists are becoming art market superstars

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  • The Best American Comics 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0358067286
    • ISBN: 0358067286
    • Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

     Jillian Tamaki, co-author of This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year. “The pieces I chose were those that stuck with me, represented something important about comics in this moment, and exemplified excellence of the craft. Surveying the final collection, I’m moved by the variety of individual approaches. There are so many w... [Read More]

  • The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life

    • ASIN: 0374293848
    • ISBN: 0374293848
    • Brand: FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    The first biography of an American masterThe Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery―the winner of nearly every major American literary award―reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the la... [Read More]

  • A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present

    • ASIN: 0394570162
    • ISBN: 0394570162
    • Brand: Pantheon Books
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

    A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden's death in 1988 -- gives a conspectus of African-American art from ... [Read More]

  • Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists

    • ASIN: 1620407582
    • ISBN: 1620407582
    • Brand: BLOOMSBURY
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

    An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation.Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books, they've been marginalized with cold efficiency, summarily dismissed in the captions of... [Read More]

  • The Escape Artist

    • ASIN: 1455559520
    • ISBN: 1455559520
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Times New Roman'} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nola Brown, the U.S. Army's artist-in-residence--a painter and trained soldier--sees something nobody was supposed to see and earns a dangerous enemy in this novel as powerful as "a launched torpedo slashing throug... [Read More]

  • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    • ASIN: B00BAXFECK
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • I Am Enough

    • ASIN: 0062667122
    • ISBN: 0062667122
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: Balzer + Bray

    A New York Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards picture book winner!This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another—from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo. This is the perfect gift for mothers and daughters, baby showers, and graduatio... [Read More]

  • Best of The American Country Hymn Book (Hymnal)

    • ASIN: 3010184492
    • ISBN: 3010184492
    • Manufacturer: Word Entertainment Music

    This book contains 100+ great gospel songs arranged for voice (SATB), piano, & guitar with lyrics. According to the editor, this collection will meet the needs of soloists, quartets or groups who are always looking for that perfect "special." Titles: *Alleluia to the lamb *Amazing grace *Because he lives *Bigger than any mountain *The blood will n... [Read More]

  • Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01N4VW75U
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    • ASIN: 1501139150
    • ISBN: 1501139150
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

    • ASIN: B00RM4IB30
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

    In the best-selling tradition of Sloan Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, here is a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool. "My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and black. Someone once to... [Read More]

  • Second Chance Girl (Happily Inc)

    • ASIN: 0373804180
    • ISBN: 0373804180
    • Manufacturer: HQN

    A touching modern fairy tale that won’t let go of your heart, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fool’s Gold romances!Mathias Mitchell’s easy smile hides a world of hurt. After the worst kind of family betrayal, he moved to Happily Inc., California—the wedding-destination town supplies a steady stream of bridesmaids, perfe... [Read More]

  • Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best

    • ASIN: 1328489876
    • ISBN: 1328489876
    • Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing. They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best Eur... [Read More]

  • Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz

    • ASIN: 0847860582
    • ISBN: 0847860582
    • Manufacturer: Rizzoli Electa

    After decades of art collecting, prominent Washington D.C.–based activist, philanthropist, and founder of the august Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Peggy Cooper Cafritz had amassed one of the most important collections of work by artists of color in the country. But in 2009, the more than three hundred works that comprised this extraordinary ... [Read More]

  • The National Parks: An American Legacy: An American Legacy

    • ASIN: 1608874087
    • ISBN: 1608874087
    • Brand: Earth Aware Editions
    • Manufacturer: Earth Aware Editions

    The National Parks: An American Legacy tells the story of the parks through the photography of Ian Shive and poignant essays by today’s leading naturalists, scientists, explorers, and artists.From the cascading waterfalls of Yosemite to the unique geothermal features of Yellowstone, the U.S. national parks are among the most breathtaking destinat... [Read More]

  • American Easel 24 Inch by 30 Inch by 1 5/8 Inch Deep Cradled Painting Panel

    • UPC: 895041002843
    • ASIN: B00486U1YW
    • Brand: American Easel, LLC.
    • Size: 24x30 in
    • Manufacturer: American Easel

    American Easel's wooden panels, our alternative to the standard canvas, gives you a firm painting surface and does not allow flexing or stretching as standard canvases do. The face of each panel is made from top quality birch and the frame is constructed of a smooth solid wood cradle (frame around the back) which provides a strong foundation, ensur... [Read More]

  • Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel

    • ASIN: B004C43FEI
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • The Artist

    • ASIN: B007ELN8Y8

  • The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium

    • ASIN: 0151005141
    • ISBN: 0151005141
    • Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • American Epic: The Best Of Country / Various

    • UPC: 813547024268
    • ASIN: B0713WYDYN
    • Manufacturer: Third Man Records

    On 180-gram vinyl. Remastered in 2017! Painstakingly-curated 16-track set features The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Dock Boggs, Carolina Tar Heels, Massey Family and others. In conjunction with the PBS documentary series "American Epic", on Jack White's label Third Man.

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