The catalogue features essays by Carol Thomson (author), and contributions by Edward S. Spriggs, Rene Paul Barilleaux, Michael Rooks and Manthia Diawara.

This book offers the first mid-career survey of work by American artist Radcliffe Bailey. The volume reproduces more than 70 works, many of which have never been published before, and considers Bailey’s work in a major essay and four shorter discussions. In these large- and small-scale pieces Bailey explores ideas of ancestry, race, memory, struggle, and sacrifice, including the artist’s own engagement with African sculpture in connection with an investigation into his family’s DNA.