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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

Mainstream publishing and media haven't always done a great job at representing the contribution made by black creatives to the British art scene. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was an American writer, philosopher and political activist best known for her essays on modern culture and criticism of the Vietnam War.

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Humans and Animals Commune with Nature and the Cosmos in the Multidisciplinary Work of Kiki Smith

Colossal

Smith began examining themes relating to the body in the 1980s, spurred by the death of her father, who was also an artist, and the loss of her sister to AIDS. “Dark Water” (2023), bronze, 72 × 65 × 28 inches “Dreaming with Birds” (2004), bronze, 47 3/4 x 73 1/2 x 2 inches.

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Rooted in the American South, ‘Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers’ Recognizes Remarkable Artistic Traditions of Black Artists

Colossal

Thornton Dial, “Stars of Everything” (2004), mixed media, 248.9 Encompassing more than 60 quilts, sculptures, installations, paintings, drawings, and assemblages by 34 artists from the mid-20th-century to the present, the exhibition is drawn largely from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. centimeters. x 40 centimeters.

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Sketches of Frank Gehry: A Conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen

Azure Magazine

Over the past two years , the French historian, author and curator Jean-Louis Cohen has published two seminal works on the world’s most renowned architect – Frank Gehry: The Masterpieces (a collection of some 40 significant built works) and Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings Volume One, 1954–1978. Martin Moeller, Jr.).