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Mark Bradford is the first major book about leading American artist Mark Bradford. Best known for his large-scale abstract paintings which examine the American urban society mediated by class, race, and gender this monograph gathers together essays by scholars such as Christopher Bedford, Hamza Walker and Hilton Als, who investigate how Bradford straddles the line between social critique and formal innovation. Topics include Bradford’s connection to abstract expressionism, his relationship to the largely unknown history of twentieth-century abstraction by African American artists, his work as a public artist, and his interest in midcentury European collage and décollage practices.