Top 10
The Basquiat Hustle: The $100 Million Scandal That Rocked the Art World
Brett Sokol. One Signal, Dec. 2 ($29, ISBN 978-1-6680-3513-9)
Journalist Sokol delves into the murky story of 25 Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings that were discovered in an L.A. storage unit, exhibited by the Orlando Museum of Art, and seized by the FBI.
E Is for Edward: A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey
The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust and Gregory Hischak. Black Dog & Leventhal, Sept. 30 ($60, ISBN 978-0-7624-8955-8)
The breadth of Edward Gorey’s work as a writer, illustrator, playwright, and stage designer is on display in this volume published to mark his 100th birthday.
Friedrich Kunath: The Grand Tour
Friedrich Kunath. Monacelli, Nov. 19 ($79.95, ISBN 978-1-58093-676-7)
This monograph on the German American visual artist features essays by Destroyer front man Dan Bejar and New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry.
Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work
Leslie Umberger, with Erika Doss et al. Princeton Univ., Oct. 28 ($60, ISBN 978-0-691-27241-2)
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Smithsonian, this retrospective traces the development of self-taught artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses’s style from her earliest efforts to her discovery by a New York City art dealer at age 80.
Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life
Sue Roe. Norton, Nov. 18 ($35, ISBN 978-1-324-07640-7)
The author of In Montmartre shines a spotlight on Françoise Gilot, Olga Khokhlova, and four other women who influenced Pablo Picasso’s work.
Love and Understanding: The Jazz Photography of Don Schlitten
Don Schlitten. Fantagraphics, Oct. 21 ($49.99, ISBN 979-8-8750-0064-5)
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Ella Fitzgerald are among the jazz greats photographed by record producer Schlitten.
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985
Edited by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis. Yale Univ., Sept. 16 ($65, ISBN 978-0-300-28350-1)
This companion volume to a National Gallery of Art exhibit spotlights more than 100 photographers and the role their work played in the development of the Black arts movement.
Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951–2004
Richard Avedon and Paul Roth. Phaidon, Oct. 8 ($79.95, ISBN 978-1-83729-035-2)
Introduced by Adam Gopnik, this compendium features the photographer’s images of aging faces, including those of Dorothy Parker and Ronald Reagan.
Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck
Dita Amory et al. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dec. 2 ($45, ISBN 978-1-58839-807-9)
The Scandinavian artist’s career is chronicled in this study, from her training at the Finnish Art Society to the haunting self-portraits of her later years.
Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe
Rebecca Head Trautmann et al. Smithsonian, Oct. 21 ($39.95, ISBN 978-1-58834-719-0)
This retrospective showcases the Ho-Chunk sculptor’s use of willow branches, feathers, and other natural materials to evoke the waterways of Wisconsin.
Longlist
Abrams
Collaboration: Frank Ockenfels 3 x David Bowie by Frank Ockenfels (Nov. 4, $65, ISBN 978-1-4197-8551-1) traces the musician’s stylistic evolution through candid images and studio portraits taken by his collaborator Frank Ockenfels 3 between 1991 and 2006.
The Shape of Nature: The Intricate Patterns of Life by David Maitland (Sept. 2, $60, ISBN 978-1-4197-7979-4) showcases the recurrent structures, shapes, and patterns seen in nature, and delves into their biological origins and purpose.
Andrews McMeel
Framing Fatherhood: A Celebration of Black Fathers by Imani M. Cheers (Oct. 21, $34.99, ISBN 979-8-8816-0029-7) presents images captured by 30 Black male photographers in response to the prompt, “What does Black fatherhood mean to you?”
Bloomsbury Academic
Rock Art and Its Legacy in Myth and Art: Petroglyphs from Eurasia, Arabia and Northern Africa by Christoph Baumer and Therese Weber (Nov. 13, $40, ISBN 978-0- 7556-5044-6) details the history of petroglyphs and pictographs, and spotlights contemporary artists inspired by these prehistoric artworks.
Chronicle
Outer Space Is Closer Than Antarctica: And Other Things I Learned While Falling in Love at the Bottom of the World by Michelle Ott (Sept. 23, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-7972-3081-8) recounts the artist’s four trips to Antarctica, beginning with her decision to quit a New York City gallery job and work as a janitor at McMurdo Station.
Chronicle Chroma
Musik: The 1960s Photographs by Bent Rej (Oct. 7, $55, ISBN 978-1-7972-3687-2) features the Danish photographer’s candid shots of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Kinks, and other rock luminaries.
Drawn & Quarterly
9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off by Raymond Biesinger (Oct. 21, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77046-801-6). The illustrator, whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New Yorker, shares hard-won advice on the ups and downs of being a self-employed artist.
Duke Univ.
Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color by Uri McMillan (Oct. 21, $34 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4780-3251-9) is an illustrated history of New York City’s downtown art and fashion scene in the 1970s focused
on model and musician Grace Jones and
her cohort.
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Louis de Niverville: Pentimenti, edited by Thomas Miller and Philip Ottenbrite (Sept. 9, $55, ISBN 978-1-77327-270-2), chronicles the Canadian painter and collagist’s life and career, including how the four-and-a-half years he spent at an Ottawa sanatorium as
a child influenced his art.
Gibbs Smith
Parklands: America’s National Parks and Public Lands by Jacob W. Frank (Aug. 19, $40, ISBN 978-1-4236-6851-0) gathers the photographer’s images of the Dry Tortugas, the Everglades, the Grand Tetons, Yosemite, and more.
Giles
Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega/Nueva York por Manny Vega, edited by Angel “Monxo” López (Nov. 18, $54.95, ISBN 978-1-917273-10-7), showcases the Bronx-born artist’s mosaics and murals that celebrate important figures in Puerto Rican and Latinx history.
Hirmer
Damien Hirst: Drawings, edited by Ralph Gleis and Elsy Lahner (Aug. 19, $45, ISBN 978-3-7774-4612-7), collects the sketches, drawings, and plans behind the British provocateur’s sculptures and installations.
Liz Collins: Motherlode, edited by Kate Irvin (Aug. 19, $45, ISBN 978-3-7774-4448-2), sheds light on the textile artist’s queer feminist politics and groundbreaking usage of fiber and thread.
Insight Editions
Classic Monsters, Modern Art: Vintage Horror Revamped by Anthony Taylor (Sept. 2, $39.99, ISBN 979-8-88663-736-6) features exclusive artwork depicting legendary monsters, including Godzilla, King Kong, and Freddy Kruger.
Jewish Publication Society
Lost Synagogues of Europe: Paintings and Histories by Andrea Strongwater (Nov. 1, $36.95, ISBN 978-0-8276-1569-4) memorializes nearly 80 European synagogues destroyed during WWII and its immediate aftermath.
Laurence King
Back to Font: Behind the Typefaces You Thought You Knew by Anitra Nottingham and Jason Phillips (Aug. 5, $25 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5294-3870-3) recounts the history of 16 of the most well-known typefaces, including Futura, Papyrus, and Times New Roman.
Lorenz
Albrecht Dürer: His Life and Works by Rosalind Ormiston (Aug. 1, $35, ISBN 978-0-7548-3554-7) provides a comprehensive survey of the Renaissance artist’s work across multiple mediums, including woodcuts, engravings, watercolors, and oil paintings.
Lyons
Candid New York: The Pioneering Photography of George Bradford Brainerd by Erik Hesselberg (Oct. 21, $35, ISBN 978-
1-4930-9054-9) spotlights the handheld camera invented by civil engineer George Bradford Brainerd in the 1870s and the fruit peddlers, dock workers, and laundresses whose pictures he took.
La Martinière
Corpus by Prune Nourry (Sept. 30, $70, ISBN 979-10-401-2305-7) delves into the French artist’s exploration of bioethical
issues in her sculptures, films, and performances.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Man Ray: When Objects Dream by Stephanie D’Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson (Sept. 30, $50, ISBN 978-1-58839-802-4) zooms in on the rayographs—a type of photograph taken without a camera—created by Man Ray in the 1920s and their influence on dadaism and surrealism.
MIT
Thomas Hirschhorn: From Graphic Design to Art by Lisa Lee (Sept. 30, $50, ISBN 978-0-262-04973-3) studies the interplay between fine art and graphic design in the Swiss artist’s oeuvre.
Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words by Miya Ando (Nov. 4, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-262-04986-3) sets definitions for such terms as takuu, or “blessed rain that quenches all things in the universe,” and kisame, or “raindrops that fall off the leaves and branches of trees,” alongside 100 drawings in indigo.
Monacelli
Derrick Adams by Derrick Adams, with essays by Hallie Ringle et al. (Oct. 15, $79.95, ISBN 978-1-58093-701-6), examines the multidisciplinary artist’s representations of modern Black American life in 150 of his most significant artworks.
National Geographic
National Geographic the Photographs: Iconic Images from National Geographic by National Geographic (Oct. 28, $50, ISBN 978-1-4262-2440-9) rounds up more than 250 of the best photographs from the pages of National Geographic.
New Press
Shine: Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions by Asafe Ghalib (Dec. 9, $21.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-62097-977-8). The 20th volume in the Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook series contains Ghalib’s portraits of members of the LGBTQ+ immigrant community in Britain.
Phaidon
Yves Saint Laurent and Photography by Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris (Sept. 10, $69.95, ISBN 978-1-83866-942-3) features the fashion designer’s collaborations with such leading photographers as Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, and Anne Leibovitz.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 by Matthew Affron (Nov. 25, $40, ISBN 978-0-87633-308-2) marks the centennial of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism with a survey of the movement’s origins, key themes and techniques, and legacy.
Princeton Architectural Press
Olle Lundberg: An Architecture of Craft by Olle Lundberg, edited by Dung Ngo (Oct. 28, $50, ISBN 978-1-7972-3604-9), delves into the San Francisco architect’s use of recycled materials and focus on creating unique
projects for each client.
Princeton Univ.
Barnett Newman: Here by Amy Newman (Oct. 28, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-691-24918-6) traces the life and career of the founding member of the abstract expressionist movement, from his childhood in a Polish Jewish immigrant family to his run against Fiorello La Guardia for New York city mayor, and his development of the color field paintings he’s best known for.
Rizzoli
The Making of Winnie-the-Pooh: Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and Other Beloved Characters by James Campbell (Sept. 23, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7893-4425-0) celebrates the 100th anniversary of the first publication of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories with a deep dive into the collaboration between author A.A. Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard.
Semiotext(e)
Fistful of Love by Reynaldo Rivera (Sept. 16, $34.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63590-242-6) showcases four decades’ worth of the
photographer’s “blue” works, erotic and intimate images of his friends and lovers.
Smithsonian
The Ascent of Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of Flight by Carolyn Russo (Oct. 14, $45, ISBN 978-1-58834-799-2) explores the flight motif across postmodern artist Robert Rauschenberg’s oeuvre, from lithographs inspired by the Apollo 11 launch to a
painting-sculpture hybrid featuring a
taxidermied eagle.
St. Martin’s
Dear New York by Brandon Stanton (Oct. 7, $42, ISBN 978-1-250-27758-9). The creator of the Humans of New York series returns to the city where his project started, with a volume that gathers nearly 500 portraits and stories, most of them never before published, of the city’s residents and visitors.
Sternberg
Huguette Caland by Omar Kholeif (Aug. 5, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-915609-72-4) chronicles the Lebanese artist’s journey from Beirut to Paris to L.A., with a focus on her “Bribes des corps” paintings, her collaboration with fashion designer Pierre Cardin,
and her friendship with artist and critic
Helen Khal.
Tate
Leigh Bowery, edited by Fiontán Moran (Sept. 2, $60, ISBN 978-1-84976-958-7), surveys the artist, club promoter, and
fashion designer’s eclectic career, including his radical use of costume as sculpture.
Thames & Hudson
Great Art Explained: The Stories Behind the World’s Greatest Masterpieces by James Payne (Oct. 21, $40, ISBN 978-0-500-02595-6) digs into the backstories and legacies of 30 artworks, including Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed.
In the Moment: 40 Years of Reuters Photojournalism, edited by Alexia Singh (Nov. 11, $65, ISBN 978-0-500-02913-8), pairs images of major news events since the 1980s with first-person texts from the photographers who captured them.
Tra
Architectural Fantasies: Artist-Built Environments by Jo Farb Hernandez (Oct. 28, $35, ISBN 978-1-962098-29-8) profiles more that 60 dwellings and monuments built by artists, including the Watts Towers in L.A. and Coral Castle in Miami.
Watkins
Common People: A Folk History of Land Rights, Enclosure and Resistance by Leah Gordon and Stephen Ellcock (Oct. 7, $35, ISBN 978-1-78678-999-0) traces the history of the enclosure of common land in England through artworks and stories of activists who have resisted it.
Wayne State Univ.
Albert Kahn’s Daylight: An Architect Reconsidered by Chris Meister (Oct. 7, $39.99, ISBN 978-0-8143-5273-1) explores how the architect’s projects, including Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge Plant and the Belle Isle Aquarium and Horticulture Building, shaped modern Detroit and influenced industrial architecture.
Wesleyan Univ.
Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities by Sage Ni’Ja Whitson (Nov. 4, $35 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8195-0199-8) details how the performance artist combines African diasporic practices, astrophysics, and speculative writing to probe themes of gender, sexuality, and
race.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Sixties Surreal, edited by Dan Nadel et al. (Oct. 7, $50 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-300-28450-8), places surrealism at the center of the 1960s American art scene, exploring how artists like Lee Bontecou, Yayoi Kusama, and H.C. Westermann drew from psychoanalysis, wordplay, and other techniques to reckon with a period of rapid, destabilizing change.
Yale Univ.
Art Is: A Journey into the Light by Makoto Fujimura (Oct. 21, $30, ISBN 978-0-300-27365-6). The Japanese American artist documents his “process-driven slow art” and reflects on his influences, including Mark Rothko and Japanese tea master Sen no Rikyū.
Lee Miller by Hilary Floe and Saskia Flower (Oct. 21, $60, ISBN 978-0-300-28546-8) surveys the wide range of the artist’s work, from her avant-garde collaborations with Man Ray and Pablo Picasso to her commercial fashion photography and WWII photojournalism.
David Zwirner
William Eggleston: The Last Dyes by Jeffrey Kastner (Oct. 7, $60, ISBN 978-1-64423-167-8) features the last of William Eggleston’s photographs to be produced using the dye-transfer printing method he made famous.
