Individual Artists - Essays
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Kawase Hasui: Capturing the Soul of Japan
$45.00 Read moreDiscover the timeless beauty of Kawase Hasui, the master of shin hanga, in this stunning new book, featuring his most breathtaking woodblock prints and expert insights into his legacy.
Kawase Hasui (1- Author: Uhlenbeck, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9464781181
- Language: English
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Salvador Dal? the Persistence of Memory: MoMA One on One Series
$14.95 Add to cartA fascinating and detailed analysis of one of the most iconic works of Surrealism
In 1931, Salvador Dal? (1904-89) painted The Persistence of Memory, a work that has become virtually synonymous both wi
- Author: Dali, Salvador
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1633451755
- Language: English
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Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life
$30.00 Read more“Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age.” –Cal Newport,
- Author: Currey, Mason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1250824524
- Language: English
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Surrealism and Anti-Fascism: Anthology
$70.00 Read moreA detailed and intellectually invigorating collection that places Surrealism in the thick of the battle for political emancipation
The Surrealist movement famously initiated a revolution in visual and
- Author: Muhling, Matthias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 3775758771
- Language: English
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Gerhard Richter
$60.00 Read more- Author: Schwarz, Dieter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 2386110591
- Language: English
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Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay Away from Nothing
$30.00 Read moreFollow the friendship and romance of storied artists Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, from the US to Italy and back again, through previously unpublished letters, postcards, candid portraits and contact she
- Author: Thek, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988573685
- Language: English
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Brightening Glance: Art and Life
$28.00 Add to cartFor more than five decades, Pat Lipsky has been a leading figure in American color field painting. In loosely connected vignettes, this extraordinary book looks back on a life starting in 1970s SoHo: … [more below]
- Author: Lipsky, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970346
- Language: English
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Lois Dodd: Framing the Ephemeral
$60.00 Add to cartSpanning a 70-year career, the first appreciation of this pioneering female modernist artist (b. 1927) working in the post-war American art scene.
Long-awaited European debut of American painter Lois- Author: Obrist, Hans Ulrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9464941898
- Language: English
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AI Weiwei Handbook
$18.95 Add to cartA compact and amply illustrated guide to the prodigious artist, activist and dissident
Emerging from a tumultuous background of political and cultural critique, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) uses a diverse ran
- Author: Weiwei, Ai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988928645
- Language: English
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Through the Long Desert: Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright
$65.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated exploration of newfound connections between American cultural icons Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright. This groundbreaking volume places the artist and architect side by sid… [more below]
- Author: Rovang, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0847875792
- Language: English
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Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed
$35.00 Add to cartA classic collection of Whitten’s writings and process notes, updated to include additional transcriptions and a new afterword
A Black man who grew up in the Jim Crow South, Jack Whitten arrived in New
- Author: Whitten, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 3907493117
- Language: English
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Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain: Writings and Interviews
$38.00 Add to cartAn expansive volume featuring over two decades of incisive reflections on race, art and pop culture by one of the greatest artists working today
This long-awaited and essential volume collects writings
- Author: Ligon, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 3906915883
- Language: English
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Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic
$15.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and inspiring collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founder of the seminal Black Arts Movement
“The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Neal, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1644231204
- Language: English
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Marcel Duchamp
$125.00 Read moreDuchamp’s historic 1959 catalogue raisonn?-cum-artist’s book now back in print in a facsimile edition
A New York Times critics’ pick Best Art Books 2021
Marcel Duchamp, the artist’s first legendary mon- Author: Duchamp, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 3906915514
- Language: English
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ISA Genzken
$50.00 Add to cartGenerously illustrated essays consider Isa Genzken’s remarkable body of work, from her early elegant floor pieces to her later explosive assemblages.
Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary
- Series: October Files #17
- Author: Lee, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0262527111
- Language: English
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John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey
$40.00 Read moreA celebration of the life and work of the artist John Craxton, a rebellious figure in British art history
Spanning a rich variety of works from the 1940s to the 2000s, this book celebrates the life a- Author: Martin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1869827716
- Language: English
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Painting Is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993
$32.00 Read moreArt writing, theory, poetry and more from a leading champion of “painting as a poetic act”
This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry (1948-93), an extraordinary
- Author: Murry, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1940190304
- Language: English
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On Homo Rodans and Other Writings
$17.95 Read moreAn updated, expanded edition of Remedios Varo’s translated writings, including pieces never before published in any language
With the 2018 publication of Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings, Wakefield
- Author: Varo, Remedios
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1939663911
- Language: English
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Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi
$44.95 Read moreThe Western Gallery is the site a major collection of outdoor sculpture, one of which – called Skyviewing Sculpture – by Noguchi forms the starting-off point of the exhibit, to be curated by Dakin Har… [more below]
- Author: Yngvason, Hafthor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1911282611
- Language: English
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The Dance of Moon and Sun: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism
$49.95 Read moreEssays on the art and writings of the long-neglected British occultist and Surrealist
Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) was widely resp
- Author: Colquhoun, Ithell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1399936484
- Language: English
