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Black American portraits : from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art / edited by Christine Y. Kim and Myrtle Elizabeth Andrews ; texts by Hilton Als [and 7 others]

Spanning from 1800 to the present, this volume surveys Black American portraiture through 140 works from the LACMA collection. The selection centres Black subjects across various media, documenting historical movements and contemporary expressions of identity.

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