Mark Bradford (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

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