2 Books Published by Phaidon Press on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

‘Johnson is a leading voice of his generation.’ — New York Times

The most comprehensive publication to date on widely celebrated artist Rashid Johnson.

Working with a variety of media that includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance, Rashid Johnson has created a nuanced and iconographic body of work that connects literature, music, and art. Personal references and pervasive cultural narratives are interweaved with the legacy of modernist abstraction, producing what critics have labelled ‘conceptual post-black art’. A precocious talent (his work was included in the seminal ‘

A monumental visual record of African American history since the 19th-century.