<b>The definitive monograph on contemporary</b>&nbsp;<b>African-American painter Kerry James Marshall,</b>&nbsp;<b>accompanying a major traveling retrospective.<br></b><br>This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of&nbsp;Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s greatest&nbsp;living painters. Born before the passage of the Civil&nbsp;Rights Act, in Birmingham, Alabama, and witness to&nbsp;the Watts riots in 1965, Marshall has long been an&nbsp;inspired and imaginative chronicler of the African-American experience. Best known for large-scale interiors,&nbsp;landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful&nbsp;black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African-American history from slave ships to the present and&nbsp;draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from&nbsp;the Renaissance to twentieth-century abstraction, as&nbsp;well as other sources such as the comic book and the&nbsp;muralist tradition. With luscious color and brush strokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and&nbsp;intimate scenes of black middle-class life conjure a&nbsp;wide range of emotions, resulting in powerful paintings&nbsp;that confront the position of African Americans&nbsp;throughout American history.<br><br>Richly illustrated, this monumental book features&nbsp;essays by noted curators as well as the artist, and more&nbsp;than 100 paintings from throughout the artist’s career&nbsp;arranged thematically by subject: history painting;&nbsp;beauty, as expressed through the nude, portraiture,&nbsp;and self-portraiture; landscape; religion; and the politics&nbsp;of black nationalism.