Below you'll find books and exhibition catalogs recommended by PTDW faculty. Some titles are physical copies of books that can be requested and checked out from Flaxman Library or I-Share for currently enrolled students. Many of these digital resources are password protected. If provided by Flaxman Library you’ll be prompted for the SAIC/ARTIC SSO login (same as your School email login). If provided by the Painting & Drawing Department, you’ll be prompted with a google account login and should login with your school email credentials. Open access/free resources will be indicated with an asterisk (*No login required).
PRO TIP: Sign in to MyAccount first (with ARTIC login) and then click the links below to read online if available.
African American Arts by 
Art on My Mind: visual politics by 
Beyond the Frame: women of color and visual representations by 
Black and Blur by 
Black Artists in America by 
Black Looks: Race and Representation by 
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem by 
Blackness in Abstraction by 
Body Sweats by 
Book of the Other: Small in Comparison by 
Candida Alvarez: HERE. a Visual Reader by 
Coexisting Differences by 
Contemporary Voices by 
The déjà vu: black dreams & black time by 
Discrepant Abstraction by 
Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics by 
Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art by 
The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation by 
Feminism Is for Everybody by 
Fetishism As Cultural Discourse by 
Fired up Ready to Go by 
Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art by 
Gendering Orientalism by 
How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness by 
In Search of African American Space by 
Infrastructure and Form by 
Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia by 
Just above Midtown: 1974 to the Present by 
Korean Eye 2020 by 
Mix and Stir: New Outlooks on Contemporary Art from Global Perspectives by 
Modern Art in the Arab World: primary documents by 
Shine: the visual economy of light in African diasporic aesthetic practice by 
A Site of Struggle by 
The Soul of a Nation Reader by 
To Describe a Life by 
The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things by 
Visual Culture in Contemporary China by 
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System by 
We Wanted a Revolution: black radical women, 1965-85 : a sourcebook by 
White: whiteness and race in contemporary art by 
Whiteness, a Wayward Construction by 
Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by 
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by 
Young, Gifted and Black: a New Generation of Artists by 
