Spring Trade Paperbacks: Art & Architecture

Actar D

The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles (Mar., $39.95), edited by Kazys Varnelis, uses photos, essays and maps to show an out-of-control but networked city.

Aurum Press

(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)

The English Manor House: From the Archives of Country Life (Apr., $35) by Jeremy Musson gathers photos of British architecture.

Batsford

(dist. by Sterling)

Big Book of Fashion Illustration: A Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration (Mar., $29.95) by Martin Dawber features an array of artists using both traditional and high-tech techniques.

Mitchell Beazley

(dist. by Sterling)

Miller’s Antiques and Collectibles Fact Book: All You Need to Know—in Your Pocket (May, $14.95) by Judith Miller. This illustrated pocket-size guide provides a wealth of detailed information.

Editorial RM

(dist. by D.A.P.)

Images of Death in Mexican Prints (May, $50) by Mercurio López Casillas surveys these images from pre-Hispanic times to the comic pages of today’s newspapers.

5 Continents Editions

(dist. by Antique Collectors’ Club)

Punu: Visions of Africa (Apr., $34.95) by Louis Perrois and Charlotte Grand-Dufay celebrates Punu masks and the artistic culture of Gabon.

Getty Publications

Food and Feasting in Art (Mar., $24.95) by Silvia Malaguzzi, trans. by Brian Phillips. Copious illustrations depict the rituals, customs and symbolism of food.

Hatje Cantz

(dist. by D.A.P.)

Painting in a Man’s World (June, $15) by Diane Broeckhoven et al. collects four short stories based on the lives of four female impressionist painters.

Heyday Books

All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets (Mar., $35) by J. Michael Walker collects Walker’s paintings and stories of L.A.’s 103 streets named after saints.

Merrell Publishers

Big Eye Art: Resurrected and Transformed (Apr. $29.95) by Blonde Blythe showcases the works of more than 20 of today’s “big eye” artists.

MFA Publications

(dist. by D.A.P.)

Antonio López Garcia (Apr., $24.95), edited by Cheryl Brutvan, coincides with a retrospective exhibition of Spain’s leading contemporary realist painter.

MIT Press

Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism (Mar., $22.95) by Anthony Vidler studies the modernist architectural historians Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham and Manfredo Tafuri.

Museum of Modern Art

(dist. by D.A.P.)

Henri Matisse (June, $9.95) by Carolyn Lanchner features Matisse’s most memorable achievements; launches the modern master series from MoMA.

NAI Publishers

(dist. by D.A.P.)

Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms (Mar., $49.95), edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann, accompanies an exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum.

National Galleries of Scotland

(dist. by Antique Collectors’ Club)

Andy Warhol: A Celebration of Life and Death (Mar., $30) by Keith Hartley commemorates the 80th anniversary of Warhol’s birth and the 20th of his death.

W.W. Norton

Inspired by Nature: Plants: The Building/Botany Connection (Apr., $35) by Alejandro Bahamón et al. explores ways in which natural forms make good architectural models. A Norton Book for Architects and Designers.

Princeton Architectural Press

(dist. by Chronicle)

Graphic Design: The New Basics (May; $35, cloth $50) by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips introduces key concepts of visual language in graphic design.

Rio Nuevo Publishers

Navajo Folk Art (May, $18.95) by Chuck and Jan Rosenak updates the authors’ earlier guide.

Roaring Brook/First Second

Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics from Manga to Graphic Novels (June, $34.95) by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden delivers a 15-lesson comics “course.” 50,000 first printing.

Rockport

1,000 Music Graphics: A Compilation of Packaging, Posters, and Other Sound Solutions (May, $40) by Stoltze Design culls graphic works of the past decade from album/CD covers, posters and more.

Scala

(dist. by Antique Collectors’ Club)

The Age of Enchantment: Beardsley, Dulac and Their Contemporaries (May, $45) by Rodney Engen presents the work of turn-of-the-20th-century illustrators of fantasy themes.

Steidl

(dist. by D.A.P.)

Andy Warhol (Apr., $50), edited by Andy Warhol et al., is a facsimile edition of the Swedish Moderna Museet’s 1968 Warhol exhibition catalogue.

Sterling/Lark

The Curious Collector: A Lively Little Tour of 101 Favorite Collectibles (Mar., $17.95) by Jessie Walker assembles information on a wide variety of objects such as glassware, jewelry and textiles.

Tate Publishing

(dist. by Harry N. Abrams)

The Blake Book (Mar., $29.95) by Martin Myrone and The Duchamp Book (Mar., $29.95) by Gavin Parkinson. These entries in the Tate Essential Artists series study these creators’ works.

Watson-Guptill

The Cartoonist’s Big Book of Drawing Animals (Mar., $21.95) by Christopher Hart. This follow-up to How to Draw Cartoon Animals features a retro drawing style. 50,000 first printing.