DIAL, Thornton (artwork); BARAKA, Amiri and Thomas McEvilley (essays)

Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. First Edition. Quarto (30cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black and in blind to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 160pp; with 128 illustrations, including 122 plates in full-color. Faint offsetting to front endpaper, small, faint semi-circular stain to upper corner of front cover, with a similar, slightly larger stain to upper left corner of rear cover, and some corresponding faint staining to upper edge of pastedowns; Very Good+. Dustjacket is lightly shelfworn, else Near Fine.

Handsome monograph on the work of African American artist Thornton Dial. Contains the essays "Proud-Stepping Tiger: History as Struggle in the Work of Thornton Dial" by Thomas McEvilley, and "Fearful Symmetry: The Art of Thornton Dial," by Amiri Baraka.

Price: $30.00

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