David C Driskell Foreword (4 results)

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Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Washington DC: Anacostia Museum / Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's stiff wraps; 79pp; color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket rubbed; bottom right corner of front panel creased. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Very Good or better copy of this exhibition catalog. Published in conjunction with Contemporary Visual Expressions, which featured four early-career Black artists. It was the inaugural exhibit in the museum's new location, where it remains today. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate, 2003. First Edition with full number line. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; x,116pp.; halftone and full color illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed on title page, "To Betty w/ [heart] Betye Saar / 2007." Additionally signed by David C. Driskell. Wonderful art monograph of the late "premier assemblage artist" Betye Saar (1926-2026). "Visiting the racial stereotypes of white artists and illustrators of the past and recasting and changing these racially derisive images into an invasive metaphor for black power is one of the acts of empowerment that Saar has successfully accomplished within the boundaries of cultural subversion" (from Driskell's foreword, p. vi). Signed. …