Weekly New Releases

The Fourth of July holiday is both fun and loaded. But whether you love the barbeques and the fireworks, or you fixate on contradictory aspects of our country’s history, we think there’s something special about this 1935 Lobster photograph by Madame Yevonde. Reproduced from Chromotherapia, it’s one of 170 “feel-good” color photographs selected by artist and Toilet Paper editor Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé for their unusual intensity. “Color photography is often criticized and belittled,” Cattelan and Stourdzé write, “but it has been a bonanza for artists, allowing them to get out their palettes and repaint the world. Some have broken with the medium’s traditional documentary role to explore photography’s shared roots with the world of the imagination, flirting with pop culture, Surrealism, bling, camp, kitsch and the bizarre—all associated with bad taste and extravagance. But why shouldn’t the trivial and the banal also have something to tell us about our existence and the age we live in? Why should rigorous, ascetic minimalism be the only way to approach reality?”

This photograph—by Dae Howerton and Dallas J. Logan—of Los Angeles community organizer, urban gardener, humanitarian, artist, designer, father and “ecolutionary” Ron Finley is reproduced from staff favorite new release Ron Finley: The Gangsta Gardener. The first book devoted to this heroic horticulturalist, The Gangsta Gardener chronicles Finley’s journey from 2009, when he was first fined for planting vegetables, fruit trees and flowers in barren spaces around his neighborhood, through his participation in the 2024 Hammer Museum exhibition, Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice. “Growing your own food is a human right! Or it should be!” he writes in the book. “Being healthy is a form of resistance. Swords to Plowshares. Let your shovel be your Weapon of Choice to change the system of food inequality. Raise Your Spades!”

Join us at the San Francisco Art Book Fair, 2025!

Join Artbook | D.A.P. July 11–13 in Booth A-17 at the 2025 San Francisco Art Book Fair, hosted by the Minnesota Street Project. Our booth will feature new and classic books from a range of our most charming and challenging international publishers. Preview is Thursday evening, July 10, from 6–10 PM. All events are free and open to the public!

Join us at the Atlanta Gift & Home Summer Market 2025

Tuesday, July 15, through Monday, July 21, please join Artbook | D.A.P. in the Aesthetic Movement Showroom at the Atlanta Gift Market to view a curated selection of new books on art and culture for Summer and Fall 2025!

An image we love always, but especially over Pride weekend here in NYC, Kent Monkman’s “The Great Mystery” (2022) is reproduced from History is Painted by the Victors, the catalog to the renowned Cree Canadian artist’s current show at the Denver Art Museum—his first major museum exhibition in the United States. Generally organized around Monkman’s alter ego, “Miss Chief,” this volume takes on issues of colonization and queerness, dark histories and corrective imaginations, with dark humor and pointed fury. “The subjects of Monkman’s paintings range from brutal scenes of oppression to moments of lament and celebrations of triumph and valor,” John P. Lukavic and Léuli Eshroghi write. “They challenge authority, or rather authorship, of the official colonial histories that many have learned and perpetuated. Some of these works are allegorical or metaphorical, while others are of known moments in history. If you find Monkman’s work challenging, enlightening, offensive, affirming or validating, it is absolutely meant for you.” They conclude: “A little mischief can lead to monumental change.”

In March of 2024, Letterform Archive Books published The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930, a breathtaking compendium of the influential interwar Japanese commercial design journal that Steven Heller has described as “the holy grail of graphic design artifacts representing the art deco, or Moderne, period.” Now, Letterform Archive Books has collected twenty of the most charming designs and published them as a collection of forty postcards, housed in what might be the cutest box of all time.

Published to accompany the Hammer Museum’s groundbreaking and wildly popular recent Alice Coltrane exhibition, this beautifully designed and lovingly assembled clothbound hardcover with gold stamped lettering and tipped-on cover image sold out almost immediately. We are delighted to announce the arrival of a new printing! Pairing Coltrane’s work and cultural legacy with works by 19 contemporary artists—including Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and Jennie C. Jones, among others—Monument Eternal is an exquisitely considered and produced design object as well as a must-have volume of scholarship for collectors of books on art, music, Vedic religious practices or Black cultural history. Named after Coltrane’s iconic 1977 book (written in order to “fulfill a divine command”), Monument Eternal “calls forth her important autobiography and brings together a collective of contemporary Black American artists who are influenced by her cultural impact and production,” Erin Christovale writes. She concludes, “I believe Coltrane’s legacy resonates with so many, specifically with the group of artists included in this exhibition, because her story offers a self-paved path toward liberation and pursuit of the divine.”

Photo: Alice Coltrane, c. 1978. Courtesy of the John & Alice Coltrane Home.

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