By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art – and love – as a resource amid the recent wave of shootings by American police of innocent black women and men. Darby English attends to a cluster of artworks created in...

"Art History and Emergency" assesses art history's role and responsibilities in what has been described as the "humanities crisis" – the perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of crit...