Collections/ Catalogs/ Exhibitions
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Matthew Wong – Vincent Van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort
$40.00 Read moreShortly before his early death, Canadian artist Matthew Wong (1984-2019) emerged as a phenomenon. He started drawing and painting in 2011, at the age of twenty-seven, and within the space of just a fe
- Author: Van Der Hoeven, Joost
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 050029805X
- Language: English
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The V&a Sourcebook of Pattern & Ornament
$35.00 Add to cartThis richly illustrated, easy-to-navigate sourcebook presents more than one thousand historic and contemporary examples of pattern and ornamentation from around the world, each one succinctly identifi
- Series: V&a Museum
- Author: Calver, Amelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0500298408
- Language: English
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Queer Lens: A History of Photography
$65.00 Add to cartCopiously illustrated, Queer Lens explores the transformative role of photography in LGBTQ+ communities from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Photography’s power to capture a subject–repre- Author: Martineau, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1606069691
- Language: English
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Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes
$45.00 Add to cartWhile surrealism’s treatment of the body has been much researched, the role of landscape has rarely been examined. Published one hundred years after Andr? Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto, Forbid
- Author: Clayton, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0500028036
- Language: English
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Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
$65.00 Read moreFrom his early self-portraits to his site-specific installations, this volume underscores Rashid Johnson’s fearless engagement with the central themes, questions and aesthetics of the contemporary era
- Author: Johnson, Rashid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 089207566X
- Language: English
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Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until the Morning
$40.00 Add to cartA fresh take on one of contemporary art’s most renowned figures
Tracey Emin (b. 1963) is widely known for dynamic and autobiographical works that reflect grief, hope, loss, and love. For more than th- Author: Droth, Martina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279728
- Language: English
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Otobong Nkanga: Stitched Dreams
$30.00 Read moreNkanga’s poetry and drawings, further facets to her multidisciplinary practice, continue her exploration of humanity’s relationship to the land
Following her monumental atrium commission for the Museu
- Author: Nkanga, Otobong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 094783091X
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds
$30.00 Add to cartThe richly illustrated story of a brief yet pivotal encounter in Paris between Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds, two luminaries of the Surrealist movement
In February 1939, while visiting Paris at the i- Author: Haskell, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279663
- Language: English
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Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
$35.00 Add to cartThis publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961).
Described in 1923 as ‘the most important woman painter in Europe’,- Author: Birrell, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1781301336
- Language: English
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Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
$35.00 Add to cartCuriosity and critique foreground this novel history of porcelain that unravels the cultural myths of Chinoiserie, Europe’s fantasy of the East
Monstrous Beauty presents a bold cross-cultural history- Author: Moon, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1588397920
- Language: English
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Emerald Drifters
$59.95 Add to cartPhotographer and writer Cig Harvey’s new work is a poetic, richly saturated exploration of life through pigment
Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), photographer Cig Harvey
- Author: Harvey, Cig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1580936873
- Language: English
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Gregory Crewdson
$60.00 Add to cartFilled with meticulously constructed photographs that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, this sumptuously produced retrospective features more than thirty years of work by one of Ame… [more below]
- Author: Moser, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377388
- Language: English
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Digital Art: 1960s to Now
$60.00 Add to cartThis new, image-led history of global digital art from the 1960s to the present day draws on the V&A’s rich collection while linking the digital art scene to wider art and design histories, and to the
- Series: V&a Museum
- Author: Arreola, Pita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0500480974
- Language: English
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Vital Signs: Artists and the Body
$50.00 Add to cartAn impressive and wide-ranging showcase of mostly women and gender-expansive artists whose work intertwines fluid ideas of embodiment with capacious models of abstraction
This stunningly illustrated ex
- Author: Tattersall, Lanka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1633451658
- Language: English
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Mark Ryden Yakalina Secrets: New Shows from the Godfather of Pop Surrealism
$50.00 Read moreMark Ryden’s Yakalina Secrets is the wondrous second installment in the artist’s incredible gallery of creatures.
Foreword by Takashi Murakami In his Pacific Northwest studio during the isolation of- Author: Ryden, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1419771906
- Language: English
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Human.Kind.
$65.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking anthology, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum has partnered with the Prix Pictet, the world’s leading prize for photography and sustainability, to show a dif
- Author: Ewing, William A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027692
- Language: English
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Kehinde Wiley: Colorful Realm
$45.00 Add to cartNew paintings from Wiley that examine how nature is depicted and symbolized in Japanese art
This striking volume presents a new body of work by American painter Kehinde Wiley, who is best known for his
- Author: Wiley, Kehinde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1957920971
- Language: English
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Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty
$60.00 Add to cartAndy Warhol’s continuous pursuit of ideal beauty–visible in a body of his work that is brought here together for the first time.
Andy Warhol is arguably one of the most widely known and discussed art- Author: Biesenbach, Klaua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377655
- Language: English
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Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age
$65.00 Add to cartCaspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is renowned as the Romantic painter par excellence, his works icons of an age of major social upheaval. His landscape paintings and drawings broke with traditional p
- Author: Bertsch, Markus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0500028338
- Language: English
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The Farm at Black Mountain College
$35.00 Add to cartA record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters
Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its found
- Author: Silver, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1954957114
- Language: English
