Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
This important book showcases the potent role of visual art in African American history and culture. Featuring black artists working in a range of media, from photography to sculpture to painting—including Amy Sherald, Benny Andrews, Sheila Pree Bright, Bisa Butler, Charles Alston, Elizabeth Catlett, Shaun Leonardo, and David Hammons, to name just a few—the book considers art that exemplifies resilience in times of conflict, as well as the ritual of creation, and the defiant pleasure of healing. Reckoning, based on the exhibition of the same name at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), explores the ongoing struggles black Americans have faced in their pursuit to enjoy the fundamental rights and freedoms promised in the Constitution to citizens of the United States. Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, the featured works respond to the dual crises of COVID-19 and systemic racism that shaped 2020.
Weight: 3.79 lb (1.72 kg)
Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.5 x 1 in (30.2 x 24.1 x 2.6 cm)
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Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
This important book showcases the potent role of visual art in African American history and culture. Featuring black artists working in a range of media, from photography to sculpture to painting—including Amy Sherald, Benny Andrews, Sheila Pree Bright, Bisa Butler, Charles Alston, Elizabeth Catlett, Shaun Leonardo, and David Hammons, to name just a few—the book considers art that exemplifies resilience in times of conflict, as well as the ritual of creation, and the defiant pleasure of healing. Reckoning, based on the exhibition of the same name at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), explores the ongoing struggles black Americans have faced in their pursuit to enjoy the fundamental rights and freedoms promised in the Constitution to citizens of the United States. Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, the featured works respond to the dual crises of COVID-19 and systemic racism that shaped 2020.
Weight: 3.79 lb (1.72 kg)
Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.5 x 1 in (30.2 x 24.1 x 2.6 cm)
Delightfully creative brands, clean & active beauty, mesmerizing books, fab design objects, radiant handmade jewelry, bravely creative makers, ravishing scents, hype-worthy style, occasional undeniable elegance, uplifted simplicity, conscious comfort, and more for the curiouser and curiouser.
See more ›Delivery Options