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Winner of the AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers 2020 competition
 
Selected by the New York Times as one of the Best Art Books of 2019 and ARTNews as one of the Best Art Books of the Decade
 
Edited by Darby English and Charlotte Barat. With contributions by Mabel O. Wilson and others
 
Among Others: Blackness at MoMA is the first substantial exploration of a major museum's uneven historical relationship with black artists, black audiences, and the broader subject of racial blackness. More than two hundred works from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, produced either by black artists or in response to race-related subjects, are reproduced in this volume, each accompanied by newly commissioned writing from a wide array of acclaimed authors. These plates are preceded by two historical essays: the first, by Charlotte Barat and Darby English, traces the history of MoMA's encounters with race since its founding, from an early commitment to African art, and solo exhibitions devoted to artists such as William Edmondson and Jacob Lawrence, in the 1930s and 1940s, through the Museum's activities during the period of the Civil Rights Movement, to the controversial Primitivism show of 1984 and beyond; the second, by Mabel O. Wilson, scrutinizes MoMA's record in collecting the work of black architects and designers. Among Others confronts two kinds of truth: one factual, the other moral. Equal parts historical investigation and truth telling, this book is a searching examination of MoMA's history in the cultural politics of race. 488 pp.; 300 illus.
 
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  • Size
    9w x 10.5"h
  • Year of Design
    2019
  • Origin
    Italy
  • Author
    Darby English, Charlotte Barat
  • Pages
    488
  • Genre
    MoMA Publications

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