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2 6 P E R S P E C T I V E | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 1 R E S O U R C E S REGARDING PAUL R. WILLIAMS: A PHOTOGRAPHER'S VIEW BY JANNA IRELAND Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View is a photographic exploration of the work of the fi rst AIA-certifi ed African American architect west of the Mississippi River. Known as "Hollywood's Architect," Paul Revere Williams was a Los Angeles native who built a wildly successful career as an architect decades before the Civil Rights Movement. He designed municipal buildings and private homes, as well as banks, churches, hospitals and university halls. He designed public housing projects and mansions for celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball. In 1923, Williams became the fi rst Black member of the American Institute of Architects. In 2017, nearly forty years after his death, he became the fi rst Black recipient of the AIA Gold Medal. GRIEF AND GRIEVANCE: ART AND MOURNING IN AMERICA (FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO BLACK LIVES MATTER) BY OKWUI ENWEZOR A timely and urgent exploration into the ways artists have grappled with race and grief in modern America. In recent years, the world has seen the rise of white nationalism in America and the tragic persistence of violence against African Americans. Featuring works by more than thirty artists and writings by leading scholars and art historians, this book gives voice to artists addressing concepts of mourning, commemoration, and loss and considers their engagement with the social movements, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter, that Black grief has galvanized. WOMEN, ART, AND SOCIETY BY WHITNEY CHADWICK A revised edition of the groundbreaking book by historian Whitney Chadwick maps the complete history of women artists from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to today. This new book challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their gender to produce major works of art. While introducing some of the many women since the Middle Ages whose contributions to visual culture have often been neglected, Chadwick's survey reexamines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. In her discussion of feminism and its infl uence on such a reappraisal, she also addresses the closely related issues of ethnicity, class and sexuality.