Black Artists in Their Own Words

"A keen and insightful window into a rich artistic legacy."—Publishers Weekly

The first book to center Black artists' voices on Black aesthetics, revealing a century of evolving relationships to race, identity, and art.

What is Black art? No one has thought harder about that question than Black artists, yet their perspectives have been largely ignored. Instead, their stories have been told by intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke, who defined "a school" of Black art in the e...