"An authoritative guide to one of the world's most important collections of African-American art, with works by artists from Romare Bearden to Kehinde Wiley.The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna Simpson, are drawn from the renowned collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through exhibitions, public programs, artist residencies, and b ..."
South of Pico African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by KellieJones Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2017 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6164-0, ISBN: 0-8223-6164-7
"Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists s ..."
"A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kellie Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers in Manhattan’s East Village and absorbed in black nationalist ideas about art, politics, and social justice across the river in Newark. The activist vision of art and culture that she learned in those two communities, and especially from her family, has shaped her life and work as an art critic and curator. ..."
"Richard III is one of Shakespeare s most popular historical plays. It takes place in the final years of the War of the Roses, when the first and last Yorkist kings rule England. In it the hunchbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester, covets his brother s betrayal and manipulation of family, friends and foe alike, as well as some of Shakespeare s most famous lines. This short narrative version of the play has been suitably adapted to help int ..."
"Jack Whitten was one of the most important artists of his generation. His paintings range from figurative work addressing civil rights in the 1960s to groundbreaking experimentation with abstraction in the '70s, '80s and '90s to recent work memorializing black historical figures such as James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois.Whitten began carving wood in the 1960s in order to understand African sculpture, both aesthetically and in terms of hi ..."
"Betye Saar, born in Los Angeles in 1926, emerged in the 1960s as a powerful figure in the redefinition of African American art. Over the past forty years, she has injected African American visual histories into mainstream visual culture by blending spiritual, political, and cultural iconography to create complex works with universal impact. This beautifully illustrated book accompanies an exhibition of Saar's work, showcasing the extrao ..."
"Photo-based artist and film-maker Lorna Simpson (b.1960) is considered to be one of the key representatives of African-American visual culture. Emerging in the 1980s, Simpson was, in 1993, the first African-American woman ever to show in the Venice Biennale and to have a solo exhibition in the 'Projects' series of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is also one of very few African-American artists ever to have exhibited at Documenta ..."
""L.A. Object" offers a historical overview of the Los Angeles assemblage movement of the 1960s and 70s. It focuses on works by primarily African-American artists often omitted from mainstream gallery and museum historical exhibitions who were working during the civil rights movement, the 1965 Watts riots and the era's general social and cultural upheaval: Ed Bereal, Wallace Berman, Nathaniel Bustion, Alonzo Davis, Dale Brockman Davis, C ..."
Arabian Nights Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Easy Classics) by KellieJones Softcover, Published by Sweet Cherry Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78226-837-6, ISBN: 1-78226-837-5
Arabian Nights Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (Easy Classics) by KellieJones Softcover, Published by Sweet Cherry Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78226-836-9, ISBN: 1-78226-836-7
Arabian Nights Sinbad the Sailor (Easy Classics) by KellieJones Softcover, Published by Sweet Cherry Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78226-842-0, ISBN: 1-78226-842-1
Arabian Nights The Three Princes and the Magic Carpet (Easy Classics) by KellieJones Softcover, Published by Sweet Cherry Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78226-838-3, ISBN: 1-78226-838-3
"Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat lived to the age of only twenty-seven. His meteoric career as an artist had lasted no more than eight years. The one-time teenage runaway and high-school dropout was first included in a group exhibition in 1980, and almost immediately knew considerable success, enjoying his first solo exhibition just two years later. Basquiat quickly became a notable figure on the international art scene, m ..."
"This landmark book documents Simpson's career in its entirety, up to her most recent work. In doing so, it sheds light on the remarkable path that Simpson paved to global critical acclaim and art-world stardom"--Publisher's description."
South of Pico African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by KellieJones Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2017 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6145-9, ISBN: 0-8223-6145-0
"Named a Best Art Book of 2017 by the New York Times and Artforum In South of Pico Kellie Jones explores how the artists in Los Angeles's black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, productive, and engaged activist arts scene in the face of structural racism. Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as L.A.'s housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno artists s ..."