9781904832980 | D Giles Ltd, September 16, 2011, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: A significant development in the wider understanding of the sources and inspiration behind much of Bearden's art Focuses on a largely unstudied area of the artist's work, his recollections and memories of his southern childhood Draws together a significant and broad ranging collection of his work, produced throughout his career, including selections from his The Prevalence of Ritual series Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections presents 90 works from the full span of the artist's career, drawing on the Mint Museum and other public and private collections of Bearden's work.

9780295991481 | Univ of Washington Pr, September 7, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: "My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and tradition, and which is now concentrated in me.

9780764953514, titled "Hughie Lee-Smith" | Pomegranate, March 31, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Painter Hughie Lee-Smith (1915-1999) sought to transform his experiences growing up as an African American during the Great Depression into meditations on the human condition.

9781570037207 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, January 31, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Bridging art history and social history, Landscape of Slavery undertakes an original study of plantation images from the eighteenth century through the present to unravel the realities and mythology inherent in this complex and often provocative subject.