Young, Gifted and Black Reading Room Book List

Book List

Barnette, Sadie. Dear 1968. Haverford, PA: Haverford College.

Cahan, Susan. Mounting Frustration : the Art Museum in the Age of Black Power. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2016.

Cassel Oliver, Valerie et al. Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2013.

Choi, Connie H., Kellie Jones, and Thelma Golden. Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, New York: American Federation of Arts, 2019.

Cooks, Bridget R. Exhibiting Blackness : African Americans and the American Art Museum. Amherst: University
of Massachusetts Press, 2011.

Drew, Kimberly, and Jenna Wortham. Black Futures. Ed. Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham. New York:
One World, 2020.

Enwezor, Okwui et al. Grief and Grievance : Art and Mourning in America. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2020.

Erickson, Ruth, Kevin Beasley, and Mark Bradford. Kevin Beasley. Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art, 2018.

Frazier, LaToya Ruby et al. LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family. Ed. Lesley A. Martin. First paperback edition. New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, 2016.

Godfrey, Mark et al. Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. Ed. Mark (Mark Benjamin) Godfrey and Zoé Whitley. London: Tate Publishing, 2017.

Hammons, David et al. L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints. New York: Tilton Gallery, 2011.

Hobbs, Robert Carleton et al. 30 Americans: Rubell Museum. Miami, Florida: Rubell Family Collection, 2017.

Jackson, Tomashi et al. Tomashi Jackson : the Land Claim. Water Mill, New York: Parrish Art Museum, 2021.

Ligon, Glenn et al. Glenn Ligon : Untitled (America)/debris Field/synecdoche/notes for a Poem on the Third World. Los Angeles, California: Regen Projects, 2019.

Marshall, Kerry James et al. Kerry James Marshall: Mastry. Ed. Helen Molesworth. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2016.

Respini, Eva et al. Deana Lawson. London: MACK Books, 2021.

Sargent, Antwaun et al. Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists, The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art. Ed. Antwaun Sargent. New York, NY: D.A.P., 2020.

Sargent, Antwaun. The New Black Vanguard : Photography Between Art and Fashion. New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, 2019.

Satterwhite, Jacolby et al. Jacolby Satterwhite: How Lovly Is Me Being as I Am. Pittsburgh, PA: Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon University, 2021.

Strachan, Tavares. Tavares Strachan: I Belong Here. Nassau, Bahamas: Isolated Labs, 2013.

Thompson, Barbara. Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008.

 

Quotations from Artist Interviews

Barnette, Sadie. Dear 1968. Haverford, PA: Haverford College.

La Ferla, Ruth. “Art, Darling.” New York Times, June 29, 2022.

Sargent, Antwaun. “Troubled Waters: Meet Painter Chase Hall, On Blackness Beyond White Imagination.” SSENSE Magazine, October 6th, 2020.

Tepper, Allie. “Drawn Out of the Muck of America: Lonnie Holley.” BOMB, August 26, 2019.

Wilson, L. Lamar. “Touch and Intimacy and Kinship: D’Angelo Lovell Williams on Photography, Landscape, and his Body of Work.The Bitter Southerner, July 27, 2021.