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Kerry James Marshall
The Histories
By Benjamin Buchloh, Aria Dean, Darby English, Mark Godfrey, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Cathérine Hug, Kerry James Marshall, Rebecca Zorach and Nikita Sena Quarshie
Edited by Mark Godfrey
Published by Royal Academy of Arts
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About the Book
The largest UK survey of Kerry James Marshall's work to date, with a new series of paintings made especially for the exhibition.
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories is the most extensive publication on the artist to date, celebrating half a century of his work. It reveals the complex ways in which he has transformed histories of Western painting, centering Black bodies in ambitious compositions set in barber shops, public housing projects, parks, and beauty salons. It charts his use of portraiture to memorialize individuals such as Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and Olaudah Equiano. A new series, illustrated here for the first time, looks at under-acknowledged aspects of the history of Africa. With lavish illustrations of all the works in the accompanying exhibition, it also includes chapters on Marshall’s Rythm Mastr project and his various public commissions including his stained glass windows for the cathedral in Washington D.C.. A survey by Mark Godfrey is accompanied by shorter essays by Aria Dean, Darby English, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Cathérine Hug, Nikita Sena Quarshie, Rebecca Zorach, and an interview between Kerry James Marshall and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories is the most extensive publication on the artist to date, celebrating half a century of his work. It reveals the complex ways in which he has transformed histories of Western painting, centering Black bodies in ambitious compositions set in barber shops, public housing projects, parks, and beauty salons. It charts his use of portraiture to memorialize individuals such as Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and Olaudah Equiano. A new series, illustrated here for the first time, looks at under-acknowledged aspects of the history of Africa. With lavish illustrations of all the works in the accompanying exhibition, it also includes chapters on Marshall’s Rythm Mastr project and his various public commissions including his stained glass windows for the cathedral in Washington D.C.. A survey by Mark Godfrey is accompanied by shorter essays by Aria Dean, Darby English, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Cathérine Hug, Nikita Sena Quarshie, Rebecca Zorach, and an interview between Kerry James Marshall and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.
Product Details
- Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts (September 23, 2025)
- Length: 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9781915815125
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Raves and Reviews
“….America’s greatest living artist….Marshall is a dismantler as well as a builder. He’s one of those patient, deliberative artists who pull things apart to see what they’re made of. Only then does he use those same parts to make something new….”
– Exhibition review, The Washington Post
"Marshall’s works are a significant contribution to the representation of 'Africa' by an American artist of African descent. In these allegories of dehumanization, greed, and hope…the artist takes an unvarnished view of his subjects, one that doesn’t sugarcoat the past or succumb to nostalgia for a mythical, precolonial Golden Age."
– Exhibition review, Art Forum
“…Marshall is the greatest painter of his generation….”
– Exhibition review, Hyperallergic
“Essential viewing….The American artist is one of the most influential contemporary history painters working today….”
– Exhibition review, Forbes
“…One of the most influential contemporary history painters working today….”
– Exhibition Review, The American
“…offers rich possibilities for thought which readily cross over from the canvas into the world and back again….”
– Art Monthly
The RA's exhibition Kerry James Marshall’s The Histories was given a 5 star review by The Guardian.
– The Guardian
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