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The Dog’s Gaze: A Visual History

Thomas W. Laqueur. Penguin Press, May 5 ($45, ISBN 978-0-593-65279-4)

Historian Laqueur studies the presence of dogs in art, exploring what their inclusion in Paleolithic cave paintings and works by Francisco Goya, Paula Rego, and others reveals about how humans see the world.

Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World

Victoria Johnson. Scribner, May 5 ($35, ISBN 978-1-9821-9629-5)

National Book Award finalist Johnson follows up American Eden with a biography of Hudson River School artist Frederic Church, whose landscape paintings helped define an American style of art.

Laurie Anderson: Go Where You Look

Laurie Anderson. Rizzoli Electa, May 5 ($75, ISBN 978-0-8478-4076-2)

This career retrospective features new work alongside images of the multimedia artist’s best-known installations, videos, and performances, and includes Anderson’s reflections on the ideas that guide her.

Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live

Michael Murphy. One Signal, Apr. 21 ($30, ISBN 978-1-6680-5655-4)

Murphy draws from the history of architecture and his own projects, including the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., to outline how the built environment can better serve humanity’s needs.

Petra Collins: Star

Petra Collins. Rizzoli, Apr. 14 ($47.50, ISBN 978-0-8478-7631-0)

Collins, who has directed music videos for Olivia Rodrigo and Carly Rae Jepsen, tracks the rise and fall of two fictional pop acts in this photography collection.

Raphael: Sublime Poetry

Carmen C. Bambach. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 14 ($75, ISBN 978-1-58839-811-6)

Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Met, this survey features more than 200 of the Italian Renaissance artist’s works and pulls from recent archival finds to chronicle his brief life.

Tadanori Yokoo

Mark Holborn. Thames & Hudson, June 16 ($80, ISBN 978-0-500-02958-9)

The Japanese visual artist, whose work mixes psychedelia, pop art, and traditional printmaking techniques, gets a comprehensive retrospective that situates his career against the social unrest of post-WWII Japan.

Trudeau and ‘Doonesbury’: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art

Joshua Kendall. Abrams Press, May 26 ($35, ISBN 978-1-4197-7611-3)

Biographer Kendall mines archival materials and interviews with Garry Trudeau himself for this account of the Doonesbury creator.

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

Andrew Graham-Dixon. Norton, Apr. 7 ($45, ISBN 978-1-324-13002-4)

The mysteries of the Dutch master’s life and work are probed in this biography by British art historian Graham-Dixon.

The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

Andrew Durbin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr. 14 ($35, ISBN 978-0-374-60955-9)

Frieze editor-in-chief Durbin untangles the complex relationship between photographer Peter Hujar and sculptor Paul Thek, who pushed the boundaries of 20th-century queer art.

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Abbeville

Impossible: The Love Affair Between Marcel Duchamp and Maria Martins, and the Artwork It Inspired by Francis M. Naumann (Mar. 24, $30, ISBN 978-0-7892-1529-1) chronicles the clandestine romance between the French surrealist and the Brazilian sculptor in the 1940s, and sheds light on the affair’s influence on Duchamp’s sculptural tableau Étant donnés.

Abrams

Freshwater: The View from Above and the Life Below by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Bill François (Apr. 28, $60, ISBN 978-1-4197-8767-6). The bestselling photographer of Earth from Above joins biophysicist François to capture the beauty, importance, and
vulnerability of Earth’s freshwater systems, from the Great Lakes to the River Seine.

The Marilyn Monroe Century: From Norma Jeane to Icon—a Story in Photographs by Joshua John Miller, M.A. Fortin, and Bruno Bernard (May 19, $60, ISBN 978-1-4197-8935-9) showcases images of the actor taken by celebrity photographer Bernard, alongside diary entries tracing her rise to fame.

Angel City

In Case You Missed It: Counterculture Photography of the 1960s and 1970s by Jerry de Wilde (May 12, $60, ISBN 978-1-62640-141-9) features the photographer’s shots of the countercultural scene in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

Art Institute of Chicago

Willem de Kooning Drawing, edited by Kevin Salatino et al. (July 21, $60, ISBN 978-0-300-28854-4), focuses exclusively on the artist’s drawing practice, from his training in draftsmanship to the ways in which he added nuance to his representations of women.

Biblioasis

Eleven Painters Start a War: The Story of a Group of Abstract Painters by Tom Smart (Apr. 21, $33.95, ISBN 978-1-77196-696-2) delves into the history of the Painters Eleven, a group of artists who fought for the acceptance of abstract painting in Canadian art galleries in the 1950s.

Brandeis Univ.

Lunch on a Beam: The Making of an American Photograph by Christine Roussel (Apr. 23, $35, ISBN 978-1-68458-304-1) takes readers behind the scenes of the famous shot of 11 ironworkers eating lunch on a steel beam during the construction of Rockefeller Center’s RCA Building in 1932.

Celadon

Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life by Mason Currey (Mar. 31, $30, ISBN 978-1-250-82452-3) explores how artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers throughout history have supported themselves, and how their material circumstances influenced their work. 75,000-copy announced first printing.

Chronicle

The Beatles by Jim Marshall: Live at Candlestick Park 1966 by Amelia Davis, Joel Selvin, and Jim Marshall (June 2, $40, ISBN 978-1-7972-4396-2) presents Marshall’s photographs of the Beatles’ 1966 concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park.

Collective Book Studio

Women Shaping the West: Stories from Wyoming by Lindsay Linton Buk (Mar. 10, $50, ISBN 978-1-68555-244-2) features portraits of more than 25 noteworthy Wyoming women, including an Eastern Shoshone language preservationist and a state supreme court justice.

DK

Otherworldly America: Explore the Most Unique Natural Wonders of the United States by Jake Guzman (May 19, $40,
ISBN 978-0-593-96772-0) showcases unearthly landscapes across the U.S., from glacier-covered mountains to bogs full of cypress trees.

Empire State Editions

Memorial ’76 by Larry Racioppo (May 5, $39.95, ISBN 978-1-5315-1319-1) contains more than 50 black-and-white images taken by South Brooklyn resident Racioppo of the neighborhood’s Memorial Day parade in 1976.

Familius

The Art of the Sneaker: Form and Function Through the Lens of a Collector by Andrew Dutton (Mar. 24, $24.99,
ISBN 979-8-89396-122-5) spotlights the form, texture, and colorways of 150 legendary sneakers, from Nike Air Force 1s to the Chuck Taylor All Star.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves by Megan O’Grady (Apr. 21, $29, ISBN 978-0-374-61332-7) explores how art can aid in the pursuit of clarity by taking a close look at five artworks, the context in which each was made, and their impact on critic O’Grady’s life.

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Moridja Kitenge Banza: Mille et une façons d’en parler/A Thousand Ways to Talk About It by Moridja Kitenge Banza et al (Apr. 28, $45, ISBN 978-1-77327-282-5). This bilingual monograph chronicles Canadian Congolese artist Kitenge Banza’s multisiciplinary practice with a focus on how he recasts histories shaped by exploitation and marginalization.

Fordham Univ.

Along the Diagonal: Art/Essays/América by Roberto Tejada (June 2, $34.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5315-1329-0) collects the poet and critic’s essays and lectures on Latinx and Latin American art.

Grove

A Natural History of the Studio by William Kentridge (Apr. 28, $32, ISBN 978-0-8021-6725-5). The South African artist sheds
light on his childhood, his creative process, and the studios he has worked in throughout his career.

Harvard Univ.

Painting into Being: Underground Art During China’s Cultural Revolution by Aihe Wang (Apr. 28, $79.95, ISBN 978-
0-674-30347-8) profiles the Wuming (No Name) Painting Group and other underground artists who challenged the ideological constraints of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.

Image Comics

Oil and Water: The Paintings of Brian J. Haberlin by Brian J. Haberlin (Feb. 17, $50, ISBN 978-1-5343-3507-3) brings together watercolors and oil paintings by comic book artist Haberlin, cocreator of the Witchblade series.

Laurence King

The Female Body in Art by Amy Dempsey (Feb. 10, $40, ISBN 978-1-3996-2673-6) traces the history of how the female form has been depicted in art, from the Renaissance paintings of Sandro Boticelli to Marina Abramović’s performance art and the gender nonconforming videos and photographs of Yuki Kihara.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Musical Bodies by E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer (June 23, $50, ISBN 978-
1-58839-813-0) explores the connection between musical instruments and the human body across history, from the ancient Egyptian sistrum, a type of rattle, to Prince’s “symbol” guitar.

MIT

The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway by Virginia McGee Richards (Apr. 7, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-262-05171-2) provides a visual history of the Intracoastal Waterway that runs between Massachusetts and East Texas, which enslaved men and women were forced to build but which they also used to escape to freedom in South Florida.

New York Review Books

Spatial Memories and Preoccupations of an Architect by Turner Brooks (May 5, $22.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89623-022-9) combines autobiography and criticism to examine how Brooks’s early experiences, including walking through Grand Central Station and seeing Clement Hurd’s illustrations in Good Night Moon, have influenced his career as an architect.

Phaidon

Bjarke Ingels Group Atlas by Bjarke Ingels Group (Apr. 22, $89.95, ISBN 978-1-83729-018-5) contains more than 600 photographs, plans, and drawings that document the renowned Danish architecture firm’s
completed projects.

Princeton Univ.

Joseph Beuys and History by Daniel Spaulding (Mar. 24, $37, ISBN 978-0-691-27954-1) situates the controversial performance artist’s career against the backdrop of Germany’s post-WWII recovery, analyzing his development of an ecological aesthetic as well as accusations that he fostered a dangerous cult of personality.

Michelangelo and Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius by William E. Wallace (Feb. 3, $35, ISBN 978-0-691-26657-2) documents the overlapping social circles of the two Italian Renaissance artists and explores how their rivalry pushed each to new heights.

Vermeer’s Afterlives by Ruth Bernard Yeazell (June 9, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-691-27782-0) recounts how the Dutch master’s work had fallen into obscurity before it was resurrected in the mid-19th century and went on to influence countless artists.

Reaktion

The Matter of Architecture: Geology, Buildings and Us by Paul Dobraszczyk (July 6, $30, ISBN 978-1-83639-183-8) delves into the relationship between ecology and architecture to propose a different way of building based on a more equitable relationship with the earth.

Rizzoli

Good Enough to Eat: The Art of Noah Verrier by Noah Verrier (Mar. 10, $35,
ISBN 978-0-7893-4621-6) collects the artist’s oil paintings, done in the style of 17th-cenutry Dutch masters, of grilled cheese sandwiches, Smucker’s Uncrustables, and other comfort foods.

Rizzoli Electa

Casa Kahlo: Frida Kahlo’s Home and Sanctuary by Mara Romeo Kahlo, Mara de Anda Romeo, and Frida Hentschel Romeo (Apr. 7, $55, ISBN 978-0-8478-7557-3) takes readers inside Frida Kahlo’s family home in Mexico City, and showcases her early drawings, jewelry, butterfly collection, and other personal items.

Scribner

Kutchinsky’s Egg: A Family’s Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss by Serena Kutchinsky (Mar. 31, $30 ISBN 978-1-6680-7909-6) recounts how the author’s father, owner of the jewelry company the House of Kutchinsky, set out to build the world’s largest jeweled egg and tanked his company and marriage in the process.

Seagull

Flying Yoginis by Irwin Allan Sealy (May 6, $21, ISBN 978-1-80309-618-6) tracks the journey of yogini sculptures, statues of female deities and practitioners of yoga, from India, where they were carved 1,000 years ago and displayed in temples, to museums across America.

Smithsonian

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks: Landscape Monuments of the Ancient Ohio Valley by John E. Hancock (Apr. 21, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-58834-812-8) features more than 250 images of the eight earthen enclosure complexes built in modern-day Ohio by ancient Native Americans between 1,600 and 2,000 years ago.

Sternberg

...E Prini, edited by Luca Lo Pinto (Apr. 14, $46 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-915609-84-7), surveys the work of Italian artist Emilio Prini, a central figure of the Arte Povera movement.

Strange Attractor

Postcards from Fairyland: Missives From England’s Magical Landscapes by Nina Antonia (May 26, $32.95 trade paper,
ISBN 978-1-917674-13-3) gathers vintage postcards depicting an English landscape filled with imps, hobgoblins, and fairies.

Thames & Hudson

Brooke DiDonato: Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer by Brooke DiDonato (May 5, $60, ISBN 978-0-500-03039-4) introduces readers to DiDonato’s surreal photographs, in which human figures often appear to be subsumed by their environments.

Lee Bul: Life and Work by Doryun
Chong and June Young Kwak (May 5, $60, ISBN 978-0-500-48120-2) surveys the South Korean artist’s career to date,
from her performance pieces of the late 1980s to Long Tail Halo, a series of four sculptures the Metropolitan Museum
of Art commissioned for its Fifth Avenue facade in 2024.

On Censorship by Ai Weiwei (Mar. 3, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-500-03082-0) draws on Weiwei’s confrontations with the Chinese government to examine how censorship and self-censorship function in both authoritarian and democratic regimes.

Univ. of New Mexico

Ore and Empire: Conquistadors to Guggenheims on the Camino Real by Martin Stupich (Feb. 17, $60, ISBN 978-0-8263-6860-7) combines photographs and scholarly essays to examine the history of resource extraction in the Ameican Southwest, with a focus on the American Smelting and Refining Company’s smelting plant in El Paso, Tex.

Verso

How to See Like a Machine: Art in the Age of AI by Trevor Paglen (May 19, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-83674-216-6) explores the origins and ramifications of today’s media landscape, in which images evolve according to the feedback they elicit from viewers.

Yale Univ.

Anni Albers: A Life by Nicholas Fox Weber (Apr. 28, $38, ISBN 978-0-300-26937-6) tracks the pioneering textile artist’s career from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College and beyond, detailing how she inspired a reconsideration of fabrics as an art form and pushed printmaking into new territory.

Frederic Church: Global Artist, edited by Tim Barringer, Mankin Kornhauser, and Jennifer Raab (Apr. 28, $65, ISBN 978-0-300-28517-8). Marking the 200th anniversary of the landscape painter’s birth, this anthology focuses on how his art was influenced by global travel and the imperial ventures of the 19th century.

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