Marsilio Arte

Fra Angelico

After exploring the language of Gothic painting, the great Tuscan artist Fra Angelico enthusiastically took up the new principles of Renaissance art then emerging in Florence. This volume offers a thorough exploration of the extraordinary talent of this artist, bringing out his capacity for artistic innovation in the service of deep spiritual values.
The book also provides a comprehensive assessment of the current state of research on Angelico. Its scholarly significance is further reinforced by the unprecedented reunion of five altarpieces that have been dismantled over the centuries: the San Piero Martire Altarpiece, the San Domenico Altarpiece in Fiesole, the Compagnia di San Francesco Altarpiece in Santa Croce, the San Marco Altarpiece and the Perugia Altarpiece. While the main panels have stayed . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 456 pgs / 300 color.

Edited with text by Carl Brandon Strehlke. Text by Stefano Casciu, Marco Mozzo, Angelo Tartuferi.

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DelMonico Books

The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans

Published with High Museum of Art.

American artist Minnie Evans (1892–1987) once said her drawings of harmoniously intertwined human, botanical and animal forms came from visions of "the lost world," or nations destroyed by the Great Flood as described in the Book of Genesis. As the visions she experienced in childhood became stronger, Evans produced a large body of work ranging from abstract to representational styles. When she turned 56, she transitioned from decades of employment as a domestic worker to collecting admissions at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North Carolina. She made art during idle moments and hung it on and near the Gardens' wrought-iron gate. Selling or giving away her drawings to visitors led to a wider reputation and eventually a . . . . Hbk, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 192 pgs / 157 color / 17 b&w.

Edited with text by Katherine Jentleson. Foreword by Rand Suffolk. Text by Kim Conaty, María Elena Ortiz, Elizabeth Penton, Wayne Evans.

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Guggenheim Museum

Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World

This landmark publication coincides with the major Guggenheim New York exhibition of works by the remarkable German Expressionist Gabriele Münter. Münter’s painting practice between 1908 and 1920 is the central focus of the exhibition and accompanying book. The study also illuminates her lesser-known later work and includes significant examples of her photography taken during earlier extensive travels in the United States. Münter was notably a cofounder of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a loose and transnational confederation of progressive artists and other creatives, with whom she probed the expressive potential of color and the symbolic resonance of forms. Her introspective portraits during World War II capture the new woman” and explore questions of gender identity.
Highlighting more than 90 paintings, drawings . . . . Hbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 176 pgs / 94 color / 66 b&w.

Edited with text by Megan Fontanella. Foreword by Mariët Westermann. Text by Victoria Horrocks, Isabelle Jansen, Iris Müller-Westermann, Dorothy Price.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination

At a moment of profound change marked by decolonization and the civil rights period of the mid-20th century, photographers across Africa and the African diaspora used the photographic portrait in order to fuel incipient ideas of Africa. Published in conjunction with a groundbreaking exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination charts international histories of resistance and liberation up to the present day in order to contend with the construction of Africa as a political idea, and the tools that artists used to forge it.
Featuring more than 100 photographs by renowned artists of the time, such as Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé and Jean Depara, and by contemporary artists of African descent, such as . . . . Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 128 pgs / 105 color.

Edited with text by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. Text by Brent Hayes Edwards, Momtaza Mehri, V.Y. Mudimbe, Yasmina Price.

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Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Tribute to Ferrari

An Exhibition Ahead of Its Time

In 1987, the Fondation Cartier organized a major exhibition honoring one of the 20th century's greatest designers, Enzo Ferrari. The first show devoted to the carmaker since its creation in 1947, Hommage Ferrari was a once-in-a-generation and totally unique showcase of the storied automobile. Thinking outside the box, director Marie-Claude Beaud and designer Andrée Putman created a legendary exhibition including car-size parachutes attached to the vehicles.
Now, 38 years after this exceptional event, the Fondation Cartier is finally publishing the exhibition catalog. Under the direction of editor and journalist Philippe Séclier, who reveals the genesis and production of this exhibition, this book revitalizes the story and legacy of Ferrari through one of its most creative ventures. Full of archival materials, exhibition photographs, . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 244 pgs / 150 color / 60 b&w.

Edited with text by Philippe Séclier. Text by Francesca Picchi, Jean-Louis Moncet. Interview with Jean Todt.

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Marsilio Arte

Maurizio Cattelan: Beware of Yourself

Covering almost 40 years of work from Italian artist and curator Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960), this volume falls somewhere between a catalogue raisonné, a monograph sui generis, an autobiography and a sourcebook. Chapters in which Cattelan discusses recurrent concepts, processes and questions in his practice alternate with specific focuses on works and series of works, exhibitions or special projects, grouped together and arranged as possible trajectories toward a deeper understanding.
Also included are nine essays by Cattelan, written between 1989 and the present day, presented here in their full-length versions with indications of their original contexts. The experience of reading the book is continually renewed through groups of works presented in chronological order, making it possible to trace the evolution of the . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 300 color.

Edited by Roberta Tenconi, Vicente Todolí, Tatiana Palenzona. Text by Maurizio Cattelan.

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Vitra Design Museum

Catwalk

The Art of the Fashion Show A to Z

Fashion shows are special moments in the fashion industry: simultaneously ritualistic and dreamlike, both commercial and poetic. Their images spread across the globe in real time, shaping our cultural memory. Stage design, performance, clothing, light and sound come together to form a temporary Gesamtkunstwerk—a comprehensive artwork.
Catwalk offers a look behind-the-scenes and explores the fascinating evolution of the fashion show: from its modest beginnings in couturiers' salons around 1900 to the spectacular presentations of the 21st century; from haute couture to prêt-à-porter; from the era of supermodels to the celebration of diversity; from classic catwalk photography to the virtual fashion show. The exhibition catalog is conceived as an encyclopedic A to Z and sheds light on the fashion show phenomenon and its . . . . Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 300 pgs / 265 color.

Edited by Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Katharina Krawczyk. Text by Jochen Eisenbrand, Katharina Krawczyk, Jens Balzer, Caroline Evans, Valerie Steele, Barbara Vinken. Interviews with Cathy Horyn, Malgosia Bela, Lucien Pages, Inge Grognard.

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Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand/KMEC Books

Queer Histories

Since 2016, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) has centered its exhibition program on exploring different histories, with each year featuring a large-scale, international and transhistorical group exhibition, paired with an exquisitely produced catalog. Following the bestselling titles Afro-Atlantic Histories and Indigenous Histories, Queer Histories is the next chapter in this cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary survey series exploring underrepresented or marginalized narratives.
Gathering more than 200 artworks from public and private collections in Brazil and abroad, Queer Histories is organized into seven sections: "Love, family and communities," "The sacred and the profane," "Signs and spaces," "Activism and archives," "Survival," "Queer Abstraction" and "Visibility." While many of the artists featured in Queer Histories are working in the wake of the HIV/AIDS . . . . Hbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 440 pgs / 455 color.

Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Julia Bryan-Wilson. Text by André Mesquita, Leandro Muniz, Teo Teotônio.

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Lars Müller Publishers

We the Bacteria

Notes Toward Biotic Architecture

This provocative book is a manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers, maintenance crews and inhabitants of buildings. Spanish American architectural historian Beatriz Colomina and New Zealand–born architect Mark Wigley draw on the latest research to rethink the past and possible futures of the built environment, exploring the intimate entanglements of the microbes within bodies and buildings over the last 10,000 years, culminating in the antibiotic philosophy of contemporary architecture. Hostility to bacteria must give way to new forms of hospitality from a more symbiotic architecture that learns from bacteria, embracing them and reconnecting with soil, plants and other species. The main goal of the book is to rethink the very idea of . . . . Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 288 pgs / 180 color.

By Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley.

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Valiz

Love and Lightning

A Collection of Queer-Feminist Manifestos

Published with PLURAL Series and Girls Like Us Magazine.

This volume is a thematically ordered, inconclusive collection of queer, feminist and queer-feminist manifestos. Girls Like Us Magazine and author Sarah van Binsbergen have composed a publication showcasing the different forms a manifesto might take, from classical, activist formats to more poetic, associative texts. The manifestos highlighted in this book cross borders, forms and disciplines, refuse binary logics, transcend our concepts of time and space, and surpass neoliberal logic. Love and Lightning does not claim to be a complete index of all queer-feminist manifestos, but rather aims to show the myriad of ways in which such manifestos can be composed, and what their lasting legacy is. The book includes a selection of manifestos . . . . Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 150 b&w.

Edited by Sarah van Binsbergen, Jessica Gysel, Sara Kaaman, Liz Allan. Text by Sarah van Binsbergen, Liz Allan. Illustrations by Lotte Lara Schröder.

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Valiz

Slow Technology Reader

A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures

Published with Slow Research Lab.

Following Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice and Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection, Slow Technology Reader gathers contributions from diverse disciplinary fields and knowledge traditions to consider technology through a "Slow" lens. It is at once artistic, academic and speculative, probing alternative potentials of the digital entities proliferating in our midst, examining tools and techniques that have endured the test of time, and looking to non-Western and more-than-human sources to inspire technological futures. This third volume aims to enlarge the parameters of how technology is understood, offering examples and inspiration beyond the limited perspectives and legacy structures that dominate technological development today. It includes the insights of feminist, queer, Indigenous, activist and . . . . Pbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 448 pgs.

Edited with introduction by Carolyn F. Strauss.

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Valiz

Exhibiting for Multiple Senses

Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies

Published with PLURAL Series.

Artists and curators have long moved beyond the primacy of the visual in art exhibitions, venturing into other senses. This book traces this shift, gathering curatorial theory, museum research, disability activism and crip theory to demonstrate resonances between curatorial theory and practice and between disability, neurodivergence and crip art activism. Exhibiting for Multiple Senses shares famous and lesser-known examples of experimental exhibitions as well as artistic practices linked to exhibitions. By mobilizing the senses of touch, smell, taste and hearing, as well as applications of multimodal technologies and insights from neuroscience, these examples explore abilities and possibilities of the sensory apparatus that is the human body.
Contributors include: David Bobier, Luca M. Damiani, Stephanie Farmer, David Gissen, Adi Hollander, . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 100 b&w.

Edited with text by Eva Fotiadi. Illustrations by Lotte Lara Schröder.

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Hatje Cantz

Fred Herzog: A Color Legacy

Fred Herzog was a master of color photography. His iconic Kodachrome street shots from the 1950s and 1960s capture urban life in warm red-orange tones, offering precise observations of people and city movements. Poetic, witty and always respectful, his images create an intimate atmosphere.
After moving to Vancouver in 1953, Herzog built a vibrant visual tribute to the city. He also traveled to the US, Barbados, Curaçao, Guatemala and Mexico, his Leica always in hand. In an era dominated by black-and-white photography, Herzog's use of color was groundbreaking. His bestseller Modern Color remains celebrated worldwide. Now, newly released photographs from his archive, managed by Equinox Gallery, continue his legacy, offering fresh insight into his unique perspective. These images not only preserve Herzog's . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.

Edited with text by Hannah Reinhart, Andy Sylvester.

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Mousse Publishing

Jim Shaw: The Ties that Bind

Study Drawings 2013–2023

Since the 1970s, Los Angeles–based artist Jim Shaw (born 1952) has been developing an exciting body of work that includes photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, films and musical performances. The Ties That Bind addresses the commitments and obsessions that drive Shaw's practice: morality, fictional narratives, conspiracy theories and forms of cultural production, to name a few. Popular cultural formats such as comics, Hollywood films and caricatures constitute an essential part of his work, as do religion, folk beliefs, leisure culture and amateur arts. His profound critical exploration of the construction of values and beliefs is complemented by an incredibly rich visual imagery. In recent decades, his body of work has increasingly highlighted the growing tension between conservative and progressive ideologies. The . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 36 color / 142 b&w.

Foreword by Anne-Claire Schmitz. Text by Calla Henkel, Mark von Schlegell.

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SKIRA PARIS

Crossed Histories

Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert on Architecture and the City

The book focuses on the impact of women on the postmodern city. To do so, it follows the personal and professional trajectories of three protagonists who, each in their own way, shaped the intellectual and physical environment of their city: Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013), through her articles in the New York Times architecture column; Gae Aulenti (1927–2012), with her conversion of Paris' Gare d'Orsay into a museum and the Piazzale Cadorna in Milan; and Phyllis Lambert (born 1927), with her founding of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal in 1979.
Through documentary and archival images, this catalog documents a turning point in architectural history, when modernity returned to the architectural values of the past and the existing built environment. It also . . . . Hbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color.

Text by Catherine Bédard, Léa-Cathérine Szacka.

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