Mark Bradford

This timely entry in the Contemporary Artists series focuses on Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles-based artist best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class, race, and gender-based economies that structure urban society. His collages and installations, made of materials scavenged from the streets, have created a unique body of work that still stands as a strong response to the impromptu networks that emerge within a city.In this new title, his life and work are explored as never before.- Anita Hill is a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic based in Boston.Connie Butler is chief curator of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.Key Selling Points - Published at a key juncture in Bradford's career, as he represents the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale - the book includes this work alongside other recent projects, among them his large-scale mural for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC - The urgency and immediacy of Bradford's work acquires an even greater dimension in our current times, where race and gender discrimination are very much at the centre of the public debate - Contributions from prominent figures well known outside the art world, such as attorney and academic Anita Hill and Pulitzer-winning journalist Sebastian Smee, put Bradford's work into its cultural context