By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art – and love – as a resource amid the recent wave of shootings by American police of innocent black women and men. Darby English attends to a cluster of artworks created in...

In this book, art historian Darby English explores the year 1971, when two exhibitions opened that brought modernist painting and sculpture into the burning heart of United States cultural politics: "Contemporary Black Artists in America", at the Whi...

"Art History and Emergency" assesses art history's role and responsibilities in what has been described as the "humanities crisis" – the perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of crit...