Gregory R. Miller & Co./Aspen Art Press

Mark Bradford: Merchant Posters

This book gathers for the first time an extensive selection of American artist—or builder and demolisher,” as he describes himself—Mark Bradford's gorgeous, searing and heavily textured merchant posters.” The original printed posters, collected by Bradford from around his Central Los Angeles neighborhood, are brightly colored local advertisements that target the area's vulnerable lower-income residents. For Bradford, they serve as both the formal and conceptual underpinnings of his works on paper, décollages/collages that engage with the pressures of the cityscape. The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive,” he notes; If there's a 20-foot wall with one advertisement for a movie about war, then you have the repetition of the same . . . . Hbk, 11 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color.

Text by Malik Gaines, Ernest Hardy, Philippe Vergne, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

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JRP|Ringier

A Brief History of Curating

By Hans Ulrich Obrist

Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, "the image we have of the curator today: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, . . . . Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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DuMont

Bruce Nauman: Live or Die

Collector's Choice Vol. 10

Some forty-odd years after Bruce Nauman began tweaking the conventions of studio practice and the hallowed persona of the 'artist-as-seer,' Pamela M. Lee wrote in Artforum not long ago, "his station in postwar art history rests secure. His influence--whether through his affectless, task-based performances, his sculptural castings of negative space, or his intermedia mash-ups of language, video and noise--is everywhere apparent in contemporary art." Indeed, from the American artist's early work in sculpture and video, made in the 1960s, through his famous spiral of neon letters spelling out "the true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths," which at once summarized and opened to critique the perennial mystique of the artist, up through his three-venue Golden Lion Award-winning exhibition at . . . . Hbk, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 240 pgs / 180 color.

Text by Eugen Blume.

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JRP|Ringier

A Brief History of Curating

By Hans Ulrich Obrist

Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, "the image we have of the curator today: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, . . . . Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Pomona College Museum of Art

It Happened at Pomona

Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973

From 1969 to 1973, a series of radical art projects took place at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County at the Pomona College Museum of Art, in Claremont, California. Here, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator in Light and Space art and former assistant to Walter Hopps, and Helene Winer, later the director of Artists Space and founder of Metro Pictures gallery in New York, curated landmark exhibitions by young local artists who bridged the gap between postminimalism and Conceptual art and presaged the development of postminimalism in the late 1970s. Among these artists were Bas Jan Ader, Michael Asher, Mowry Baden, Lewis Baltz, Chris Burden, Judy Chicago, Ger van Elk, Jack Goldstein, Robert Irwin, William Leavitt, John McCracken, Allen . . . . Pbk, 9 x 13 in. / 386 pgs / 120 color / 160 b&w.

Edited by Rebecca G. McGrew, Glenn R. Phillips, Marie Shurkus. Text by Thomas Crow, David Pagel.

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The Design Museum

Wes Anderson: The Archives

An archive is always a time machine, but the archives of Wes Anderson take us on a journey not just through time, but through layers of stories and the experiences of storytelling—on paper and on film. This volume chronicles these stories with a deep dive into Anderson's personal archive, celebrating his 30-plus years in cinema. From the start of his career, he has maintained a rich library of notebooks, drawings, paintings, Polaroids, props, puppets, sets and costumes from his films. Presented here, these objects are enhanced and illuminated by Anderson's long-time collaborators, including actors Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson and Tilda Swinton; composer Alexandre Desplat; musician Seu Jorge; and music supervisor Randall Poster. The book also features an extensive interview . . . . Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 296 pgs / 200 color / 50 b&w.

Edited by Johanna Agerman Ross, Matthieu Orlean, Lucia Savi. Text by Johanna Agerman Ross, Matthieu Orlean, Lucia Savi, Leanne Shapton, Vincent Maluasa, Hadeel Eltayeb, Glenn Adamson, Nicolas Saada. Conversations with Wes Anderson, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wright, Roman Coppola, Milena Canonero, Jason Schwartzman, Alexandre Desplat, Ralph Fiennes. Photographs by Laura Wilson, James Hamilton, Roger do Minh, Richard Round-Turner.

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DelMonico Books

Bong Joon Ho: Director's Inspiration

Published with Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

From his earliest short films through his international breakthrough The Host and the Oscar-winning Parasite, the films of Bong Joon Ho defy simple categorization. Whether set in 1980s Korea or an imagined future time and space, they address issues that are transnational and universal: class disparity, social injustice, the environmental crisis and political and moral corruption. Bong embeds social critique into deeply humorous, unexpected and thought-provoking stories, and his protagonists are everyday people—often unlikely heroes—who confront the absurdities of modern life. With unprecedented access to the filmmaker's archive and personal collection, Bong Joon Ho: Director's Inspiration features storyboards, notebooks, concept art, models, props, behind-the-scenes photography and more. The book includes a new interview with Bong . . . . Hbk, 8.25 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 270 color.

Edited with introduction by Michelle Puetz. Foreword by Amy Homma. Text by Dooho Choi, Choi Woo-shik, Lee Isaac Chung, Toni Collette, Guillermo del Toro, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Catherine George, Dan Glass, Hong Kyung Pyo, Jung Jaeil, Darius Khondji, Lee Hajun, Miky Lee, Robert Pattinson, Seo Woo-Sik, Amy Taubin, Steven Yeun. Interview by Nam Lee.

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Katherine Small Gallery

Alphabet in Motion

How Letters Get Their Shape

Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual?
Featuring 17 stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC pop-up book explains—as well as demonstrates—the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms through the ages. Readers will learn about '60s psychedelic type by projecting light through a phototypesetting pop-up; how screen technology shaped letterforms by turning on and off anti-aliasing; or the aesthetics of typographic modularity by reconfiguring the puzzle pieces of Josef Albers' Kombinations-Schrift.
Type history is often technical and always visual. It is therefore challenging to . . . . Hbk, 2 vols, 9.5 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 280 color / 17 pop-ups.

By Kelli Anderson. Edited by Ben Kiel, Caren Litherland, Michelle Santiago Cortés, Claire Evans, Emily Doucet.

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Inventory Press

Design and Visual Communication

The first ever English translation of Bruno Munari's Design and Visual Communication (1968) fills a gap in Munari's output for the English-speaking world and provides a highly relevant guide to bridging architecture and design education and everyday life.
Published in 1968 after Munari was invited to the Carpenter Center at Harvard to teach, the book transforms over 50 lessons, class materials and letters addressed to the city of Milan, into a book on the future of art, architecture and design. Conceived as a living volume, the book is written to inspire current and future designers to push beyond past events, however recent, and develop new tools to see and understand tomorrow's world.
Accompanying the facsimile reproduction of the original volume are in-depth contextual . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 400 pgs / 383 b&w.

By Bruno Munari. Translation and annotations by Jeffrey Schnapp.

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Onomatopee

With a Bird,

A Reader on Avian Kinship

Following the runaway success of A Tree, With a Bird, is the second installment in Onomatopee's five-year, five-volume publication series creating "rich encounters between folklore and critical research." As a reader on avian kinship, With a Bird, delves into the profound ways birds have inspired human understanding of life, blending scientific inquiry with spiritual reflection. Visual art, natural history, sociology, literature and more combine to explore how birds challenge and transcend boundaries—between human and non-human life, dream and reality, life and death, science and folklore and the domains of land, water and sky. Each chapter in this petite, canary-yellow paperback is dedicated to the symbolic roles birds play in human life, from death to dreams to freedom to fortune-telling.
In addition to . . . . Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 286 pgs / 377 duotone.

Contributions by Daniel Godínez Nivón, Ignace Cami, Bryony Dunne, Suzanne Walsh, Ai Ozaki, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Monika Czyzyk, Yuri Tuma, Manjot Kaur, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide). Text by John Berger, Daisy Hildyard, Natalie Lawrence, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Nicholas Miroeff, Karan J. Odom, Maria Popova, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

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Carnegie Museum of Art

Black Photojournalism

This volume presents work by 57 Black photographers and contributions from scholars such as Joy Bivins, Tina M. Campt and Gerald Horne, chronicling historic events and daily life in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campaigns of 1984, including the civil rights movements through the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Drawn from archives and collections in the care of journalists, libraries, museums, newspapers, photographers and universities, the photographs in the catalog were circulated and reviewed in publishing offices across the country.
Responding to a dearth of stories about Black lives told from the perspectives of Black people, Black publishers and their staff created groundbreaking editorial and photojournalistic methods and news networks. During a period . . . . Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 400 pgs / 55 color / 190 b&w.

Edited by Charlene Foggie-Barnett, Dan Leers. Foreword by Deborah Willis. Introduction by Eric Crosby. Roundtable discussion by Tina Campt.

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MW Editions

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Enoura Observatory

Land of Distant Memory

Apart from photography, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has been working in sculpture, performing arts and architecture for more than 20 years. Since the early 2010s, he has been constructing the Enoura Observatory, and with his singular vision he has brought together ancient and contemporary Japanese traditions in one art and architectural complex. This book provides an account of this stunning multidisciplinary project.
The Observatory, part of the artist's Odawara Art Foundation, is sited on a hilly area covered with citrus trees in Odawara, nestled against the outer rim of the Hakone Mountains and overlooking Sagami Bay. Odawara is home to groups of artisans with mastery of sophisticated techniques that have been handed down for centuries. Sugimoto has constructed the Enoura Observatory using . . . . Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 224 pgs / 125 color.

Text by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

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No More Rulers

Esther Mahlangu Handbook

This timely and visually striking volume offers a long-overdue exploration of Dr. Esther Mahlangu (born 1935), the internationally acclaimed South African artist whose practice defies divisions between "traditional" and "contemporary" art. Grounded in the visual language of her Ndebele heritage, Mahlangu transforms this lineage into a powerful tool for self-expression and global dialogue. She has exhibited at major institutions, including the Centre Pompidou and Louvre Abu Dhabi, and in 1991 became the first woman and African artist commissioned to create a BMW Art Car—joining a legacy that includes Andy Warhol and David Hockney. Mahlangu expands painting's role in contemporary life, from monumental murals to brand collaborations. The Esther Mahlangu Handbook positions her work firmly within contemporary discourse, rejecting reductive categorizations of . . . . Hbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 162 pgs / 73 color / 2 b&w.

Edited with foreword by Larry Warsh. Text by Larry Ossei-Mensah.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream

Over a career spanning six decades, Wifredo Lam radically expanded the purview of modernism. Born in Cuba, Lam spent most of his life in Spain, France and Italy, and came to embody the figure of the transnational artist in the 20th century, forging a unique visual style at the confluence of European modernity and Caribbean and African diasporic cultures. The extent of his influence throughout the Black Atlantic is unrivaled as both a leading innovator and an anti-colonialist.
Published in conjunction with the most extensive retrospective devoted to the artist in the United States, Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream brings together more than 150 works from his prolific career—including paintings, large-scale works on paper, collaborative drawings, illustrated books, prints, . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 225 color.

Edited with text by Beverly Adams, Christophe Cherix. Text by Anny Aviram, Miriam Basilio, Terri Geis, Jean Khalfa, Damasia Lacroze, Laura Neufield, Maria Elena Ortiz, Lowery Stokes Sims, Catherine Stephens, Martin Tsang.

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Spector Books

Shelter Cookbook

DIY architect, publisher and pioneer of the self-build movement, Lloyd Kahn (born 1935) is a legend of the American counterculture. Influenced by Buckminster Fuller, in 1968 Kahn started building geodesic domes, and was an editor for Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog. In 1970 Kahn published his first book, Domebook One, followed the next year by the bestselling Domebook 2. In 1971, he bought land in Bolinas and built a geodesic dome (later to be featured in Life magazine), but he soon pursued other ways to build, resulting in the classic 1973 book Shelter. Kahn published numerous self-build books over the ensuing decades, most recently Tiny Homes on the Move (2014).
Shelter Cookbook is an exploration of Kahn’s now iconic publications by the . . . . Pbk, 11 x 14.5 in. / 112 pgs / 48 color / 140 b&w.

Edited with text by Leopold Banchini, Lukas Feireiss. Text by Lloyd Kahn.

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SKIRA PARIS

Michael Kenna: Constellation

Best known for his unusual black-and-white landscapes, British photographer Michael Kenna (born 1953) creates these ethereal images by setting up 10-hour exposures across night and day, creating prolonged concentrations on the ephemeral and atmospheric conditions of the natural world and its interactions with manmade structures. His work has been shown in almost 500 solo exhibitions and more than 400 group exhibitions, and is in more than 100 permanent collections.
Constellation, marking the 50th anniversary of Kenna's career, includes 122 breathtaking images from Kenna's oeuvre of 3,700 photographs captured across 43 countries from 1973 to 2024—each active year and country visited is represented. From this constellation of photographs, the reader is invited to chart their own universe of poetry and beauty away from . . . . Hbk, 10.5 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 110 color.

Text by Stéphane Tallon, Matthieu Rivalin.

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MW Editions

Peter Steinhauer: Spires

Cathedrals of Vietnam's Red River Delta

American photographer Peter Steinhauer (born 1966), a resident of Asia from 1994 to 2014, here vividly documents the majestic cathedrals of northern Vietnam's Red River Delta. Using local materials such as stone, ironwood and brick, these churches were constructed to withstand the tropical Vietnamese climate and environment, symbolizing the merging of cultures and the growing influence of Catholicism in the region. Over time, the cathedrals transcended their colonial roots, organically embedding themselves in Vietnam's political, cultural and religious landscape. This volume unfolds a dramatic narrative of these historic edifices. Steinhauer documents many significant examples of these cathedrals, which display the fusion of French and Vietnamese architectural virtuosity in every stone, arch and spire. These architectural marvels now face neglect, deterioration or . . . . Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.

Text by Peter Steinhauer, Hoàng Thúc Hào, Thúy Dinh, Nguyen Phan Que Mai.

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Mandylion Press

The Hill of Dreams

From his earliest literary experimentation, Arthur Machen refused to sit in his own time, clawing his way back to a past inhabited by false gods and terrifying fairies. The Hill of Dreams thus performs a kind of reverse archeology. Instead of the writerly excavation of character development and world-building, Machen entombs his main character, Lucian Taylor, in his own mind, cutting him off from the living world of sensation. Lucian journeys "all the long way from the known to the unknown," into the ruins of an old Roman fort, imbued with the Celtic magic that stirred in the Welsh hills of Machen's childhood. From this idyll, the story becomes a classic künstlerroman, following Lucian to the gray streets of London where . . . . Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 256 pgs / 56 b&w.

By Arthur Machen. Edited by Mabel Capability Taylor, Madeline Porsella. Introduction by Madeline Porsella.

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nai010 publishers

At Home in the 17th Century

Published with Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

What household belongings did people own in the 17th century? At Home in the 17th Century opens the door to everyday domestic life and brings the reader closer to the people of the time—from everyday objects such as combs and brooms used for personal care and household chores, to wedding rings and christening gifts that marked important life events. Instead of familiar idealized genre paintings, this book focuses on real life. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, this book, designed by Irma Boom, includes commentary from several of the museum's curators delving into the world behind the paintings: the residents and the objects that surrounded them. What people left behind—furniture, utensils and even pottery fragments found in . . . . Pbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 392 pgs / 200 color.

Text by Sara van Dijk, Femke Diercks, Maartje Brattinga, Alexander Dencher, Suzanne van Leeuwen, Marijn Stolk.

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Brilliance: Jewelry Art and Fashion

From ancient Egyptian broad collars to contemporary studio pieces, jewelry has been used as a powerful communication tool across millennia—and around the world. The renowned collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showcases global stories of human ingenuity through an incredible array of jewelry designs, materials and techniques. Each object boasts a unique history of its own; when considered side by side, however, they speak to one another, these cross-cultural and multigenerational conversations inviting the reader to consider new insights and fresh perspectives on the art form.
Brilliance explores jewelry as a messenger, a decorative art and an object of adornment over the course of four thousand years. This catalog features more than 100 works in the MFA's collection, exploring their . . . . Hbk, 9.25 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 120 color.

Edited with text by Emily Stoehrer. Text by Nina Burr, Tanya Crane, Helen W. Drutt English, Melanie Grant, Amin Jaffer, Yasmin Hemmerle, Henrietta Lidchi, Bella Neyman, Victoria Reed, Kendall Reiss, Joyce Scott.

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