This gorgeous, colour illustrated catalogue in a hardcover slipcase, highlights the works produced by Glenn Ligon over a seventeen-year period. Ligon's work discusses the black body politic and the history of representation, looking at the self in relation to culture and history. Ligon, who lives and works in New York City, appropriates old visual or text-based materials to comment on issues of race, sexuality, identity, and language. His intensely beautiful coal paintings take the African-American visual-literary past and give us a lens to look at twentieth-century culture.