This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings.

Published to accompany the exhibition Amy Sherald: The World We Make, Hauser & Wirth, London, October 12-December 23, 2022.

Works --Stopped in time / Jenni Sorkin -- In praise of mere beauty / Kevin Quashie -- Studio -- Amy Sherald in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates.