"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."—The New York Times

Surveys the lives and works of European and American writers, artists, and composers from the Renaissance into the twentieth century.

"In Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but is nevertheless foundational to every representation. Troubling the idea that the aesthetic is sheltered from the antiblack terror that lies just beyond its sanctuary, Bradley insists that blackness cannot make a home within the aesthetic, yet is held as its threshold and aporia. The book problematizes the phenomenological...

This catalog, which accompanied an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, gathers paintings, drawings and photography from Cuba done over the past century and a half. In addition to hundreds of works on paper, it features revealing photographs - some never before published - that record the country's wars of independence and revolution, its utopian endeavors and social realities. Numerous essays explore aspects of the Cuban visual arts such...

A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as ""brilliant"" and ""provocative, "" Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, ""Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries,...

Examines the "spectacularization" of everyday experience through the lenses of contemporary art practice and cultural criticism, bringing together the work of more than 50 contemporary artists, critics and theorists whose work engages diverse social phenomena such as the advent of gaming and sports culture.