ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 6/25/2025 Rizzoli presents Anderson Zaca with Thom (Panzi) Hansen for the NYC launch of 'Fire Island Invasion: A Day of Independence'DATE 6/21/2025 ICP Photobook Club presents Anderson Zaca on 'Fire Island Invasion'DATE 6/15/2025 Gasoline and Magic for Father's Day, 2025DATE 6/13/2025 In Nydia Blas' 'Love, You Came from Greatness,' the title says it allDATE 6/12/2025 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' is Back in Stock!DATE 6/9/2025 Four decades of previously unpublished work by Bruce DavidsonDATE 6/8/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents J. Hoberman and Melissa Rachleff Burtt on 'Everything is Now'DATE 6/7/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Jeanette Spicer launching 'To the Ends of the Earth'DATE 6/5/2025 A love letter from Robert FrankDATE 6/2/2025 Exact Change launches Chris Marker's 'Immemory: Gutenberg Version'DATE 6/1/2025 Inspiration for now in 'Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough'DATE 6/1/2025 Pride Month Staff Picks 2025!DATE 5/29/2025 Feel-good color photography in 'Chromotherapia' | BOOKS IN THE MEDIACORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/13/2014Libuse NiklováWhat a joy to preview the first monograph in English on mid-century Czech toy designer Libuse Niklová. The woman was unstoppable, designing many dozens of inflatable, accordion-pleated and hollow, static figures of only the most adorable and compelling kind. The book, by the interesting Czech publisher Arbor Vitae, is as playful as its subject, with puffy hardbound cover, three different colored ribbons and a complete inventory of works by this modest modernist printed on special, smaller matte paper and bound inside. Wonderful archival images are interspersed with a wealth of new photographs, and set among both personal and scholarly texts. |