BLACK ART, a cultural history

359pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Third Edition Reprint, Thames & Hudson, London, (2021) 2022

ISBN: 9780500204665

First published in the UK and USA in 1997 as Black Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2002.

Art historian Richard Powell on how artists have explores black identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

"With this new edition, the formidable Richard J. Powell has achieved something that seemed impossible: making this landmark book more indispensable than ever." Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum on Haarlem

"Powell's writing provides that rare combination of being comprehensive and contemporary, expressed with such clarity" Zoé Whitley, Director, Chisenhale Gallery

Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, North Carolina, where he has taught since 1989. His publications include: The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism; Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture; Going There: Black Visual Satire, and Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson.