CONTENTS | FICTION AND POETRY

Biographies, Memoirs, Diaries

       

FORTHCOMING TITLES & RECENT RELEASES

Alex Katz & Joe Brainard: Flowers Journals
Alex Katz & Joe Brainard: Flowers Journals
Drawings by Alex Katz. Text by Joe Brainard.

In this tender posthumous collaboration initiated by Alex Katz (born 1927), the artist embellishes journal entries by his old friend Joe Brainard (1941–94) with a new series of exquisite charcoal drawings of flowers (a popular >>more

Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172867
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Clth, 9.25 x 10 in. / 44 pgs / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/16/2023 Out of stock


Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney
Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney
By David Leeming. Introduction by Hilton Als.

Long out of print, this new edition of David Leeming’s landmark biography of Beauford Delaney (1901–79) features an introduction by Hilton Als. Leeming, also the author of James Baldwin’s acclaimed 1994 biography, delves into the >>more

Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172669
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 292 pgs / 23 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/07/2025 Awaiting stock


And Warren Niesluchowski Was There
And Warren Niesluchowski Was There
Edited with introduction by Sina Najafi, Joanna Warsza. Text by Warren Niesluchowski, Barry Schwabsky.

Warren Niesluchowski (1946–2019), one of the most charismatic and eccentric figures in the art world, was at once an exhilarating conversationalist, a polymath, an attentive companion of artists, a polyglot translator, a networker without status, >>more

Cabinet Books
ISBN 9781932698848
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8 in. / 272 pgs / 36 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock


Art and Decoration
Art and Decoration
By Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde was one of the most influential writers on art and design in the late 19th century. Alongside his acclaimed plays, novel and short stories, he wrote and lectured extensively on the subject. This >>more

Art / Books Vintage Classics
ISBN 9781908970541
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Clth, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 216 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock


Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna
Edited by Carlo Cavicchi.

Ayrton Senna (1960–94) was one of the greatest racing champions of all time, an outstanding driver who became timeless especially after his tragic death on May 1, 1994, on the Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857252193
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 225 color.
Pub Date: 02/04/2025 Awaiting stock


Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
Edited with text by Erica Ciallela, Philip S. Palmer. Introduction by Philip S. Palmer. Foreword by Colin B. Bailey. Text by Araceli Bremauntz-Enriquez, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Rhonda Evans, Anne-Marie Eze, Daria Rose Foner, Jiemi Gao, Juliana Amorim Goskes, Gail Levin, Deborah Parker, Deborah Willis. Afterword by Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty.

When J.P. Morgan’s personal library opened as a public institution in 1924, the choice for its first director was an obvious one: Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). Not only had she organized and cataloged the >>more

DelMonico Books/Morgan Library & Museum
ISBN 9781636811352
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Hbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 304 pgs / 141 color / 34 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/12/2024 In stock


Brazilian Intelligence
Brazilian Intelligence
By Max Bense. Edited with afterword by Georg Vrachliotis.

This travelogue by German philosopher Max Bense (1910–90) explores 1960s Brazil. Published for the first time in English, and including unpublished archival material, this important work of German postwar literature records his encounters with concrete >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052146
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 4.25 x 7.25 in. / 80 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/27/2025 Awaiting stock


Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce: Memories of a Daughter
Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce: Memories of a Daughter
By Susana Chillida.

Published to mark the centenary of Eduardo Chillida’s birth, Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce: Memories of a Daughter is the first English translation of Susana Chillida’s memoir about her parents, Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce. >>more

Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915951
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Pbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 300 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2024 In stock


Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World
Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World
Text by Isamu Noguchi, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bonnie Rychlak.

“Where all we see is change I like to think sculpture may have in this a special role—as an antidote to impermanence—with newness yes, but with a quality of enduring freshness relative to that resonant >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783969993101
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Clth, 9.25 x 10 in. / 264 pgs / 13 color / 257 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/11/2025 Awaiting stock


Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures
Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures
Edited by John Reynolds, Tiny Robinson. Text by Jack Kerouac, Glenn O’Brien, Mason Roberson, Pete Seeger, Tom Waits, et al. Poems by Tyehimba Jess.

This is a new edition of Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures, the rich visual biography of legendary Louisiana blues musician Lead Belly, originally published by Steidl in 2007. Here is a treasure trove of >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783958297036
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Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 56 color / 110 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock


Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows
Edited by Julian Cox, Jim Shedden. Introduction by Julian Cox. Text by Alan Light, Joan Angel, Laura Cameron, Jim Shedden. Interview by Julian Cox with Michael Petit. Afterword by Robert Kory.

Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from Cohen’s personal archive provide fresh insight into the artist’s creative pursuits >>more

DelMonico Books/Art Gallery of Ontario
ISBN 9781636810911
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Hbk, 9.25 x 9.25 in. / 168 pgs / 378 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2023 In stock


Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston
Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston
By Musa Mayer.

Philip Guston (1913–80) is one of the outstanding figures in 20th-century American art. Beginning as a muralist in the 1930s, Guston embraced the lyrical vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism in his paintings and drawings after his >>more

Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915753
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Flexi, 6 x 9 in. / 372 pgs / 62 color / 72 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/09/2023 In stock


Nil Yalter: Circular Tension
Nil Yalter: Circular Tension
By Omar Kholeif.

In this deeply personal account, author Omar Kholeif takes readers on a journey through the life and work of Nil Yalter (born 1938)—one of the pioneering artists of our time. Born in Cairo and raised >>more

Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867496297
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Pbk, 8.75 x 12.25 in. / 128 pgs / 149 color / 120 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/25/2025 Awaiting stock


SKULLFUCK
SKULLFUCK
By Jon Moritsugu.

Glimmering with candor and dead-on humor, this memoir tells the story of the meteoric rise of Japanese American filmmaker Jon Moritsugu (born 1965), from 1980s teenage delinquent in Honolulu to Ivy League slumster to take-no-prisoners >>more

Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030603
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Pbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 304 pgs / 25 color / 84 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock


This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
Edited with text by Hilton Als, Rhea L. Combs. Foreword by Rhea L. Combs.

The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924–87) considered himself a “witness” as he challenged perspectives on America and its history through his work. He was often recognized for speaking out against injustice when other >>more

DelMonico Books/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 9781636811321
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Hbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 112 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 09/17/2024 In stock


                                                                                                                                                           

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST

A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill and His Time: 1908–1939
A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill and His Time: 1908–1939
By Angela Thomas.

Swiss artist Max Bill (1908–94) was a master of many trades during his lifetime: he was at once an architect, graphic designer, painter, industrial designer and typeface designer. A student of greats such as Wassily >>more

Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915401
US $45.00 CAN $61.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 736 pgs / 162 color / 74 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock


Alfred Comte: A Life for Aviation
Alfred Comte: A Life for Aviation
Edited with text by Michel Comte. Text by Alfred Comte, Tyler Brûlé.

This book is a visual biography of the legendary Swiss aviation pioneer Alfred Comte (1895–1965). Combining historical photos and documents with texts by Comte’s son (also Alfred) and grandson, the photographer Michel Comte, the book >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783958295766
US $55.00 CAN $77.00 FLAT40
Clth, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 224 pgs / 50 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock


Another Promised Land: Anita Brenner’s Mexico
Another Promised Land: Anita Brenner’s Mexico
Edited with text by Karen Cordero Reiman. Text by Doris Berger, Tatiana Flores, Linde B. Lehtinen, Laura Mart, Ilan Stavans.

She came to occupy a central part in the world of postrevolutionary Mexican and American thinkers, artists and writers of the avant-garde, influencing American perceptions through her writing about Mexican culture. Brenner also championed the >>more

Skirball Cultural Center
ISBN 9780998669304
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 296 pgs / 90 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/28/2017 Out of stock


Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song
Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song
Edited by Matthew Spender.

Author of From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender presents a new expanded edition of his 2010 publication Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof, with never-before-published material, including diary entries and >>more

Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915081
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Flexi, 6.25 x 9 in. / 600 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock


Arthur Cravan: Maintenant?
Arthur Cravan: Maintenant?
Edited with text by Emmanuel Guigon. Text by Georges Sebbag, Jean-Paul Morel, Laurence Madeline, Erich Weiss, Aitor Quiney.

In the course of his brief life, the adventurer, poet and boxer, Arthur Cravan (1887–1918) galvanized the avant-garde circles of Paris and New York with his pugnacious attitude, handsome looks, his romance with Mina Loy, >>more

Silvana Editoriale/Museu Picasso
ISBN 9788836637379
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock


Better Books / Better Bookz
Better Books / Better Bookz
Edited by Rozemin Keshvani, Axel Heil, Peter Weibel. Text by Rozemin Keshvani, Barry Miles. Contributions by Stephen Dwoskin, John Hopkins, Graham Keen, Bruce Lacey, Gustav Metzger, Jeff Nuttall, Frank Popper, Criton Tomazos, Islwyn Watkins.

In the 1960s and ‘70s, the legendary independent London bookstore Better Books, located on the Charing Cross Road, was the hub for Britain’s counterculture, with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi, >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960984580
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 165 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock


Bridget Riley: A Very Very Person
Bridget Riley: A Very Very Person
By Paul Moorhouse.

In January 1965 the international art world converged on New York to pay homage to a brilliant new star. The glittering opening of The Responsive Eye, a major exhibition of abstract painting at the Museum >>more

Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932500
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 272 pgs / 11 color / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock


Chanel: Her Life
Chanel: Her Life
By Justine Picardie. Drawings by Karl Lagerfeld.

This is the long-awaited reprint of Justine Picardie’s acclaimed 2010 illustrated biography of Coco Chanel (1883–1971), one of the 20th century’s most captivating personalities and a defining figure in fashion history. Whoever attempts to understand >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783958296305
US $65.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Clth, 6 x 9.25 in. / 400 pgs / 24 color / 230 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/14/2020 Out of stock


Charles Dickens and His Circle
Charles Dickens and His Circle
By Lucinda Hawksley. In this new volume, historian and award-winning author Lucinda Hawksley explores the life of her great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Dickens (1812–70)—one of the first people to whom the term “celebrity” in its modern sense was applied, and >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145962
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.75 in. / 120 pages / 45 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock


Don't Tell Sybil
Don't Tell Sybil
By George Melly. Don’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926–2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came to attention as a jazz >>more

Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565653
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Hbk, 7 x 7.75 in. / 176 pgs / 1 color / 31 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2014 In stock


Duchamp: A Biography
Duchamp: A Biography
By Calvin Tomkins. First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins’ biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708923
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 540 pgs / 119 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock


Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller
Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller
By Chloé Griffin. Contributions by John Waters, Mink Stole, Gary Indiana, et al. Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child of suburban 1950s Maryland, she made her name first as >>more

Bbooks Verlag
ISBN 9783942214209
US $29.95 CAN $41.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 336 pgs / 230 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock


Einstein: The Man and His Mind
Einstein: The Man and His Mind
By Gary S. Berger and Michael DiRuggiero. Foreword by Hanoch Gutfreund.

A one-of-a-kind, hard-cover, 4.4 pound book with rarely-seen photos of Albert Einstein as well as of beautifully preserved letters, manuscripts, journals, and even equations written in Einstein's hand. Extraordinary among Einstein biographies, the book presents >>more

Damiani
ISBN 9788862087841
US $70.00 CAN $98.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 212 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 11/08/2022 In stock


Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
Edited with introduction by Marie Warsh. Foreword by Maika Pollack.

Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) produced a vast body of work that includes sculptures, outdoor installations, drawings, illustrations, artist’s books, lyrical essays and art criticism. In 1971 she began to focus on the use of fabric as >>more

Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190259
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 164 pgs / 22 color.
Pub Date: 05/12/2020 In stock


Frida Kahlo: Sus fotos
Frida Kahlo: Sus fotos
Edited with text by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Text by James Oles, Horacio Fernandez, Masayo Nonaka, Laura González, Mauricio Ortíz, Gerardo Estrada, Rainer Huhle, Gaby Franger.

Cuando Frida Kahlo muere Diego Rivera, marido, ex marido y viudo de Frida, le pide al poeta Carlos Pellicer que convierta la Casa Azul en un museo para que el pueblo de México pueda visitarla >>more

RM/Museo Frida Kahlo
ISBN 9788492480746
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 496 pgs / 401 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/01/2010 In stock


God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
Edited with text by Hilton Als. Text by Stephen Best, Daphne A. Brooks, Teju Cole, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Barry Jenkins, Jamaica Kincaid, David Leeming, Darryl Pinckney.

When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film scripts and, perhaps most indelibly, essays. A friend and supporter of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X >>more

Dancing Foxes Press/Brooklyn Museum
ISBN 9781954947092
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2024 In stock


Great Masters and Unicorns
Great Masters and Unicorns
By Konrad O. Bernheimer. According to legend, the horn of the unicorn could counteract poison and purify water. The collector Lehmann Bernheimer used to cite this myth regarding an item in his collection, which for centuries had been treasured >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775740692
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Hbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 344 pgs / 46 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Out of stock


Groovy Bob
Groovy Bob
By Harriet Vyner.

Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner’s Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture. Taste-maker, heroin addict and promiscuous homosexual, Fraser astonished >>more

Heni Publishing
ISBN 9780993010392
US $16.00 CAN $23.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 8 in. / 384 pgs / 20 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/15/2017 In stock


Hello We Were Talking about Hudson
Hello We Were Talking about Hudson
Edited with preface by Steve Lafreniere. Introduction by Bob Nickas. Text by Hilton Als, Gary Indiana, Mike McGonigal, Richard Prince, et al.

Neither a comprehensive oral history nor a biography, this reader is an intimate collection of anecdotes, reflections and musings that cohere to form a narrative portrait of a complex man and the vehicle through which >>more

Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190341
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 216 pgs / 16 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2024 In stock


I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 1950–1969
I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 1950–1969
By Jonas Mekas. Edited by Anne König.

Jonas Mekas’ I Seem to Live picks up in the 1950s, where his extraordinary and popular memoir I Had Nowhere to Go left off. These were crucial years for the artist: Jonas Mekas and his >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052887
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Hbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 824 pgs / 350 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/11/2020 In stock


In Search of Hiroshi
In Search of Hiroshi
By Gene Oishi.

“Can one wreak vengeance against oneself?” This anguished question hangs over Gene Oishi’s powerful memoir about his lifelong struggle to claim both his Japanese and American identities in the aftermath of World War II, when >>more

Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030825
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Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/12/2024 In stock


Jane Austen and her World
Jane Austen and her World
By Josephine Ross.

The unmarried younger daughter of a country vicar, she published her novels anonymously. When she died, aged only 41—having earned less than £700 from her writing—her name was still almost unknown to the world at >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855147010
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock


Joan Didion: What She Means
Joan Didion: What She Means
Edited by Hilton Als, Connie Butler. Introduction by Ann Philbin. Text by Hilton Als, Joan Didion.

In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer and curator Hilton Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion's life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics.
Arranged chronologically, the book >>more

DelMonico Books/Hammer Museum
ISBN 9781636810577
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Clth, 9 x 12.5 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/08/2022 In stock


Joanna Drew and the Art of Exhibitions
Joanna Drew and the Art of Exhibitions
By Caroline Hancock.

This book celebrates the life and work of the English art gallery director and arts administrator Joanna Drew (1929–2003). Drew began her impressive career at the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1952 and during >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857239521
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Jonathan Meese 1970–2023
Jonathan Meese 1970–2023
By Robert Eikmeyer & Doris Mampe.

Tracing the transformation of German artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970) into a kind of stage character, this biography draws on archival materials and extensive interviews to create an account of an artist who has incorporated >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960982395
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 520 pgs / 1 color / 277 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock


Kippenberger
Kippenberger
By Susanne Kippenberger. Translation by Damion Searls. Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much >>more

J&L Books
ISBN 9780982964286
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 592 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2013 In stock


Lincoln Kirstein's Modern
Lincoln Kirstein's Modern
Edited with text by Samantha Friedman, Jodi Hauptman. Text by Lynn Garafola, Michelle Greet, Michelle Harvey, Richard Meyer, Kevin Moore.

Lincoln Kirstein was a polymathic writer, critic, curator and impresario: a key connector and an indefatigable catalyst whose sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ‘40s shaped artists and institutions. Best known >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450820
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Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 200 pgs / 205 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock


Living Well Is the Best Revenge
Living Well Is the Best Revenge
By Calvin Tomkins. First published in 1971 and now available for a younger generation with a new introduction by the author, Living Well Is the Best Revenge is Calvin Tomkins' now-classic account of the lives of Gerald and >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708978
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 152 pgs / 83 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2013 Out of stock


Ludwig Grote and the Bauhaus Idea
Ludwig Grote and the Bauhaus Idea
Edited by Torsten Blume, Claudia Perren. Text by Peter Bernhard, Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Magdalena Droste, Christian Eger, Susanne Neubauer, Marian Wild, et al.

German art historian Ludwig Grote (1893–1974) had an almost unparalleled influence on the conception of the Bauhaus, helping to shape an idea of the school that has extended far beyond its historical existence. Drawing on >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052801
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 In stock


Martin Parr, Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari: ToiletMartin PaperParr, Limited Edition
Martin Parr, Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari: ToiletMartin PaperParr, Limited Edition

Printed in an edition of 300 copies, this numbered limited edition includes a foulard.

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Damiani
ISBN 9788862087131
US $150.00 CAN $215.00 SDNR40
Special edition, 11 x 14 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 04/07/2020 Out of stock


Partners: A Biography of Jerry Hunt
Partners: A Biography of Jerry Hunt
By Stephen Housewright.

Jerry Hunt (1943–93) was among the most eccentric figures in the word of new music. A frenetic orator, occultist and engineering consultant, his works from the 1970s through the early ’90s made use of readymade >>more

Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691040
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 320 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/08/2022 Out of stock


Peggy Guggenheim: The Last Dogaressa
Peggy Guggenheim: The Last Dogaressa
Edited by Karole P.B. Vail, Vivien Greene. Text by Patricia Allmer, David Anfam, Malvina Borgherini, Davide Colombo, Alice Ensabella, Chiara Fabi, Simonetta Fraquelli, Flavia Frigeri, Karen Kurczynski, Ellen McBreen, Antonia Pocock, Chris Stephens, Gražina Subelyte.

This book offers a thorough visual biography of the life of Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) as collector, through a selection of works from the world-renowned collection she established primarily between 1938 and 1946, and to which >>more

Marsilio Editori/The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
ISBN 9788829701292
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Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 04/14/2020 Out of stock


Pepys and His Contemporaries
Pepys and His Contemporaries
By Richard Ollard. The Diary of Samuel Pepys is an indisputable treasure of English literature, and one of the most important documentary sources of the English Restoration period. Pepys’ Diary, maintained daily for almost ten years, records his >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145856
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 120 pgs / 47 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock


Piet Mondrian: A Life
Piet Mondrian: A Life
By Hans Janssen.

Piet Mondrian: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of Piet Mondrian to be published in English. This remarkable book provides a long-overdue and compelling account of the life of perhaps the most influential abstract >>more

Ridinghouse/Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague
ISBN 9781909932517
US $50.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 464 pgs / 64 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/27/2022 In stock


Queer St Ives and Other Stories
Queer St Ives and Other Stories
By Ian Massey.

Based on original interviews and previously unpublished letters and diaries, Queer St Ives reveals a fascinating, hitherto undocumented history, adding vital new insight into the history of the fabled British art colony. At the center >>more

Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932692
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/13/2022 In stock


Ralph Gibson: Self-Exposure
Ralph Gibson: Self-Exposure

Self-Exposure is the autobiography of celebrated American art photographer Ralph Gibson. With his 80th birthday on the horizon in January 2019 and a career spanning over 50 years, Gibson is at a point of reflection >>more

Heni Publishing
ISBN 9781912122103
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 13 in. / 372 pgs / 285 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock


Sargent's Daughters
Sargent's Daughters
By Erica E. Hirshler.

Henry James credited John Singer Sargent with a "knock-down insolence of talent." Among the painter's many renowned works, few deserve the phrase as much as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), one of Sargent's >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468607
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 262 pgs / 25 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock


Shakespeare and Company, Paris
Shakespeare and Company, Paris
Edited with introduction by Krista Halverson. Foreword by Jeanette Winterson. Epilogue by Sylvia Whitman.

This first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette Winterson, among others--with hundreds >>more

Shakespeare and Company Paris
ISBN 9791096101009
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Hbk, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 384 pgs / 225 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 Out of stock


Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
By Charles Nicholl. William Shakespeare and his peers helped create not only a new kind of theatre in the Elizabethan era but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political upheaval, they gave >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145801
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 136 pgs / 54 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock


Simone Forti: The Bear in the Mirror
Simone Forti: The Bear in the Mirror
Edited by Roos Gortzak, Quinn Latimer.

The Bear in the Mirror is a collection of stories, prose poems, drawings, photos, letters, notes and memories by Simone Forti (born 1935)—a founding figure of postwar American dance for those following in the wake >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960983958
US $39.95 CAN $55.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 94 pgs / 2 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock


Song of Arirang
Song of Arirang
By Nym Wales, Kim San. Edited with afterword by Dongyoun Hwang. Introduction by Arlif Dirlik. Text by George O. Totten III.

First published in 1941 and long unavailable, Song of Arirang tells the true story of Korean revolutionary Kim San (Jang Jirak), who left colonized Korea as a teenager to fight against Japanese imperialism and fought >>more

Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030566
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Hbk, 5 x 7 in. / 512 pgs / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/06/2024 In stock


Story of Water and Fire
Story of Water and Fire
By May Muzaffar.

This book offers a captivating account of the joint life of two prominent figures in the Iraqi art scene between the 1960s and the 1990s: poet and critic May Muzaffar (born 1940) and artist Rafa >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775755450
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock


The Anchored Angel
The Anchored Angel
By Luis Cabalquinto. Edited by Eileen Tabios. Contributions by Nick Carbo, Jonathan Chua, Jose Garcia Villa. >>more

Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030283
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/1999 In stock


The Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group
Text by Frances Spalding.

The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. The group aimed to rebel and challenge what they felt were the religious, artistic, social >>more

National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855147232
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Hbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 48 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock


The Death and Letters of Alice James
The Death and Letters of Alice James
By Alice James. Edited with text by Ruth Bernard Yeazell.

Alice James (1848–92) was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her more famous brothers, but—as was typical for a Victorian woman—never formally educated and thus deprived of any opportunity for a >>more

Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972200
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 232 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 In stock


The Empress and I
The Empress and I
By Donna Stein.

In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi generated an art market in Iran, as Stein encouraged Pahlavi’s >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857244341
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock


The Eye Of The Fish
The Eye Of The Fish
Artwork by Luis Francia.

The first of Luis H. Francia's books of non-fiction to be published in the United States, The Eye of the Fish paints a vivid and detailed portrait of the terror, beauty and insistent humanity of >>more

MUAE Publishing
ISBN 9781885030313
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 392 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 In stock


The Physiology of the Employee
The Physiology of the Employee
By Honoré de Balzac. Introduction and translation by André Naffis-Sahely. Illustrations by Louis Joseph Trimolet. If Honoré de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity--the "mode" itself, fashion--his Physiology of the Employee examines another equally potent cornerstone to the modern era: bureaucracy, and all of the >>more

Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663047
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 55 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 In stock


The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
By Pierre Louÿs. A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925) was a friend of, and influence on, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarmé among others. He achieved instant notoriety with Aphrodite and The >>more

Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115518
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 76 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 In stock


Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man
Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man
Introduction by Dawn Ades. Translated by Chris Allen. Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of its protagonists; and also reprints >>more

Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565431
US $26.95 CAN $37.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/31/2014 In stock


Treatise on Elegant Living
Treatise on Elegant Living
By Honoré de Balzac. Honoré de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's “The Dandy” (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and >>more

Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115501
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 In stock


Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision
Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision
Text by Frances Spalding. Virginia Woolf's many novels--notably Night and Day (1919), Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931)--transformed ideas about structure, plot and characterization. Sister of Vanessa Bell, Woolf was a >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144811
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2014 In stock



             

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT

Julien Levy: Memoir Of An Art Gallery
Julien Levy: Memoir Of An Art Gallery
Introduction by Ingrid Schaffner. Julien Levy opened his New York gallery in 1931, and the following year assembled the first Surrealist show ever held in that city. Over the next two decades he exhibited works by Dalí, Ernst, Joseph >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466535
US $22.50 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 368 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Not available


Kippenberger
Kippenberger
By Susanne Kippenberger. Translated by Damion Searls. Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much >>more

J&L Books
ISBN 9780982964217
US $34.95 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 564 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Not available


Oscar Wilde and His Circle
Oscar Wilde and His Circle
Text by Simon Callow. One of literature's most witty personalities, Oscar Wilde captivated London society. In this perceptive appraisal of Wilde and those around him--including Aubrey Beardsley, Sir Max Beerbohm and Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie")--acclaimed actor and >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144781
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Pbk, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 136 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 Not available


Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography
Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography
By Sue Davidson Lowe. Foreword by Anne Havinga. "Stieglitz is as scholarly a production as anyone could wish, crammed with facts and trailing informative appendixes. It is also a loving and occasionally exasperated look at a contentious relative and the intimate circumstances that >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466498
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 512 pgs / 57 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2002 Not available


The Worlds of August Strindberg
The Worlds of August Strindberg
Edited by Bengt Wanselius. Foreword by Björn Meidal. Text by Björn Meidal. An astounding labor of love by scholar Björn Meidal and photo editor Bengt Wanselius, The Worlds of August Strindberg is a visual biography of Sweden’s most influential writer and playwright. The book’s biographical narrative (by >>more

Max Ström
ISBN 9789171262486
US $95.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 512 pgs / 24 color / 426 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2013 Not available


Utopia Parkway: The Life And Work Of Joseph Cornell
Utopia Parkway: The Life And Work Of Joseph Cornell
By Deborah Solomon. No artist ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his disquieting shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Legends about Cornell >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466849
US $23.50 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 448 pgs / 59 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Not available


Years of Friendship, 1944-1956: The Correspondence of Lyonel Feininger and Mark Tobey
Years of Friendship, 1944-1956: The Correspondence of Lyonel Feininger and Mark Tobey
Essay by Peter Selz. This expanded and updated edition of an in-demand, out-of-print title includes over 80 letters written between artists Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) and Mark Tobey (1890-1976), from the time of their first meeting in 1944 to Feininger's >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775716963
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 250 pgs / 15 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available