Bard Graduate Center Library is proud to display books from our collection that celebrate Black History Month. We hope you enjoy these selections about black art, artists and creators in art, fashion and New York history!

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The following is a list of books currently on display for the month of February 2017:

Black style / edited by Carol Tulloch GT511 .B64 2004

Stylin’ : African American expressive culture from its beginnings to the zoot suit / Shane White and Graham White E185.86.W4388 1998

Black art and culture in the 20th century / Richard J. Powell N6538.N5 P64 1997

Art on my mind : visual politics / Bell Hooks N6537.H585 A2 1995

We flew over the bridge : the memoirs of Faith Ringgold N6537.R55 A2 1995

The Afro-American artist : a search for identity / Elsa Honig Fine N6538.N5 F56 1982

Vintage black glamour / Nichelle Gainer E185.96 .G346x 2014

A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience / edited by Carroll Pursell T21 .H38 2005

Jacob Lawrence : paintings, drawings, and murals (1935-1999) : a catalogue raisonné / Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois ; with assistance from Stephanie Ellis-Smith N6537.L384 A4 2000

Race rebels : culture, politics, and the Black working class / Robin D.G. Kelley E185.61 .K356 1996

El Anatsui : art and life / Susan Mullin Vogel NB1099.G53 A538 2012

Imprisoned in a luminous glare : photography and the African American freedom struggle / Leigh Raiford E185.61 .R234 2011

Distinction and denial : race, nation, and the critical construction of the African American artist, 1920-40 / Mary Ann Calo N6538.N5 C35 2007

The politics of households in Ottoman Egypt : the rise of the Qazdağlis / Jane Hathaway HN786.Z9 E46 1997

Rhapsodies in black : art of the Harlem Renaissance / [exhibition devised and selected by Richard J. Powell and David A. Bailey ; catalogue edited by Joanna Skipworth] N6538.N5 R56 1997

Women of the Harlem renaissance / Cheryl A. Wall PS153.N5 W33 1995

Harlem Renaissance : art of Black America / introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell ; essays by David Driskell, David Levering Lewis, and Deborah Willis Ryan N6538.N5 H286 1987

The Afro-American tradition in decorative arts / John Michael Vlach N6538.N5 V57 1990

Fever within : the art of Ronald Lockett / edited by Bernard L. Herman N6537.L6343 F48 2016

Seeing through race : a reinterpretation of civil rights photography / Martin A. Berger ; foreword by David J. Garrow E185.61 .B44 2011

Grass roots : African origins of an American art / Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, Enid Schildkrout ; with contributions by Judith A. Carney … [et al.] NK3649.55.U55 R67 2008

In the spirit of resistance : African-American modernists and the Mexican muralist school = En el espíritu de la resistencia : modernistas africanoamericanos y la escuela muralista / Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins and Shifra M. Goldman ; with a foreword by Raquel Tibol N6538.N5 L35 1996

Stephen Burrows : when fashion danced / Daniela Morera, editor and art director TT504.4 .B87 2013

Ain’t nothing like the real thing : how the Apollo Theater shaped American entertainment / edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill ML3479 .A36 2010

For all the world to see : visual culture and the struggle for civil rights / Maurice Berger ; foreword by Thulani Davis P94.5.A372 U534 2010

Signs of the times : the visual politics of Jim Crow / Elizabeth Abel E185.61 .A164 2010

Over the line : the art and life of Jacob Lawrence / edited with an introduction by Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois ; essays by Patricia Hills … [et al.] N6537.L384 O94 2000

African-American art / Sharon F. Patton N6538.N5 P38 1998

Dancing at the Louvre : Faith Ringgold’s French collection and other story quilts / Dan Cameron … [et al.] NK9198.R56 A4 1998

Aaron Douglas : art, race, and the Harlem Renaissance / Amy Helene Kirschke N6537.D62 K57 1995

I tell my heart : the art of Horace Pippin / Judith Stein … [et al.] ND237.P65 I18 1993

Slavery in New York / edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie Harris F128.9.N4 S55

Black dolls : from the collection of Deborah Neff / edited by Frank Maresca ; essays by Margo Jefferson, Faith Ringgold & Lyle Rexer NK4892.5 N44 B53 2015

Fashion and jazz : dress, identity and subcultural improvisation / Alphonso D. McClendon GT596 .M378 2015

Fred Wilson : a critical reader / edited by Doro Globus BGC Course Reserves

N6537.W546 A35 2011

L.A. object & David Hammons body prints / editors, Connie Rogers Tilton and Lindsay Charlwood ; essays, Steve Cannon [and others] ; photographic contributions, Bruce W. Talamon and Harry Drinkwater N6538.N5 L26 2011

The New negro / edited by Alain Locke ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad PS153.N5 L63 1997

The global Africa project / [co-curators, Lowery Stokes Sims, Leslie King-Hammond ; authors, Naomi Beckwith [and others] ; edited by Martina D’Alton] N7380.5 .G59 2010