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Stocking Stuffers
For the Art Lover
For the Photographer
For the Design Devotee
For the Bookworm
For the Stargazer
For the New Yorker
For the Fashion Forward
For the Music Lover or Cinephile
For the Jetsetter
For the Revolutionary
For the Luxury Collector

This past year, our editors reviewed thousands of new titles from the world's most respected art, photo and design book publishers.

Artbook.com has curated this new 2018 gift book selection with sophisticated choices for all the people on your list. Whether you're looking for a gift to impress your boss, searching for a book to delight the artist in the family or trying to charm that special friend who collects photobooks, Artbook.com is the perfect place to shop.

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Stocking Stuffers

They're cute, they're small, they're surprising and affordable. Here are 15 staff picks for the stockings on your list »

The ABCs of Style

ABC: An Alphabet

Piggy Goes to University

Dung Beetle Ltd

Voyagers

We Do Christmas

Dung Beetle Ltd

5 Year Diary: Green Cover

Sophie Calle: True Stories

ToiletMartin PaperParr Calendar 2019

Yoko Ono: Everything in the Universe Is Unfinished

Wishes

Wakefield Press

Russian Criminal Tattoos and Playing Cards

FUEL Publishing

Poemotion 3

Lars Müller Publishers

UFO Drawings from the National Archives

Four Corners Books

The Art of Aubrey Beardsley

Russian Criminal Playing Cards

FUEL Publishing

For the Art Lover

The must-have art books of 2018, from a collection of Vienna Secession art magazine covers to new monographs on Warhol, Kusama, Picasso, Whitten, Nauman, Giacometti, Magritte, Turrell, Kingelez and af Klint »

Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls

D.A.P./The Andy Warhol Museum

Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life

David Zwirner Books

Pablo Picasso: Picasso's Kitchen

Jack Whitten: Odyssey

Gregory R. Miller & Co.

Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

Guggenheim Museum Publications

Picasso: Ceramics

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Giacometti

Guggenheim Museum Publications

Ver Sacrum: The Vienna Secession Art Magazine 1898–1903

René Magritte

D.A.P./San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Bodys Isek Kingelez

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

James Turrell: Extraordinary Ideas—Realized

Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me

Wexner Center for the Arts

Soul of a Nation

Ruth Asawa

David Zwirner Books

For the Photographer and Photography Collector

A few of our favorite 2018 monographs and surveys by Modern and contemporary photographers »

Ralph Gibson: Self-Exposure

Heni Publishing

Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes: The Sweet Flypaper of Life

First Print Press

Shape of Light

Saul Leiter: All about Saul Leiter

Arnold Newman: One Hundred

Radius Books/Howard Greenberg Gallery

Gordon Parks: The New Tide

Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art

Ed Templeton: Tangentially Parenthetical

Displaced: Manzanar 1942–1945

Evelyn Hofer: New York

Brassai

Fundación Mapfre

A Vision Shared: A Portrait of America 1935–1943

Masahisa Fukase

Editions Xavier Barral

Saul Leiter: In My Room

Josef Koudelka: Returning

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment

For the Design Devotee

The must-have architecture and design books of 2018, from FUEL's "Spomenik Monument Database" and "Brutal Bloc Postcards" to Inventory Press's companion publication to the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, "Dimensions of Citizenship" »

Cabin Fever

Information Office

Renzo Piano

Royal Academy of Arts

Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Dimensions of Citizenship

Inventory Press

The Architecture of Closed Worlds

Lars Müller Publishers/Storefront for Art and Architecture

Michael Webb: Two Journeys

Lars Müller Publishers

Spomenik Monument Database

FUEL Publishing

Brutal Bloc Postcards

FUEL Publishing

Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions

Lars Müller Publishers

Too Big: Rebuild by Design’s Transformative Response to Climate Change

nai010 publishers

For the Stargazer

Impress your favorite armchair astronomers with wonderful gift books on the cosmos, Soviet space dog memorabilia and space colonies »

The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The Moon 1968–1972

Soviet Space Dogs

FUEL Publishing

Barbara Bosworth: The Heavens

Space Colonies

For the Fashion Forward

From Viktor & Rolf to Van Cleef & Arpels - our staff favorite holiday fashion gift books for 2018 »

GingerNutz Takes Paris

Viktor & Rolf: Fashion Artists 25 Years

nai010 publishers

Hermès Pop Up

Sorolla and Fashion

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Jewellery

Posturing

Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92

Soul Jazz Books

Dewey Nicks: Polaroids of Women

Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design and Fashion

Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza

Van Cleef & Arpels: Alhambra

Editions Xavier Barral/Van Cleef & Arpels

For the Bookworm

10 must-have 2018 reading books, from R. Crumb's "Dream Diary" to Georges Bataille's "Sacred Conspiracy," to collected writings of Dick Higgins and Jack Whitten »

Wishes

Wakefield Press

R. Crumb's Dream Diary

Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins

What it Means to Write About Art

David Zwirner Books

The Book

Karen Green: Frail Sister

The Sacred Conspiracy

A Blow of Dice Never Will Abolish Chance: A Poem

Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed

Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Treatise on Modern Stimulants

Wakefield Press

For the Music Lover or Cinephile

Beginning with Led Zeppelin's first and only authorized illustrated history, and including new books on The Ramones, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Michael Jackson and more, this season also includes cinephile specialties on Andy Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls," the making of "Rosemary's Baby" and a collection of Jonas Mekas' "Conversations with Filmmakers" »

Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls

D.A.P./The Andy Warhol Museum

Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92

Soul Jazz Books

Michael Jackson: On the Wall

National Portrait Gallery

My Ramones: Photographs by Danny Fields

Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin

Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art

The Disco Files 1973–78

This Is No Dream: Making Rosemary's Baby

Night Fever

Vitra Design Museum

Astrid Kirchherr with the Beatles

Arthur Elgort: Jazz

Birgit Nilsson: 100

Verlag für moderne Kunst

Art & Vinyl

Fraenkel Gallery/Editions Antoine de Beaupré

Johnny Cash at Folsom and San Quentin

Reel Art Press/BMG Books

Conversations with Filmmakers

For the New Yorker

Whether you love it or hate it, left it or long for it—here are 5 favorite gift books for the New Yorkers in your life »

Evelyn Hofer: New York

Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92

Soul Jazz Books

Oasis in the City

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Ice Cream Headaches: Surf Culture in New York & New Jersey

Tod Papageorge: Dr. Blankman´s New York

Steidl/Pace/MacGill Gallery

For the Jetsetter

Travel-themed books this season include two photo books centered around swimming pools; two books on Soviet design; a gorgeous book of international landscape design and photo books that take us to Mongolia, Madagascar and Provence »

Karine Laval: Poolscapes

Frédéric Lagrange: Mongolia

Brutal Bloc Postcards

FUEL Publishing

Rachel Cobb: Mistral

The Swimming Pool in Photography

Pancho Saula: Madagascar

Spomenik Monument Database

FUEL Publishing

Oasis in the City

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Postcards from Africa

MFA Publications

The Wirtz Gardens

Wirtz International

For the Revolutionary

Now is the time to give books on resistance and revolution. Hit the streets with these staff favorite gift books for those who question authority and shout their protest in the streets »

See Red Women's Workshop

Four Corners Books

Dimensions of Citizenship

Inventory Press

Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance

Lars Müller Publishers

Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968

Handbook of Tyranny

Lars Müller Publishers

For the Luxury Collector

Whether for a book collector or a lover of limited editions, these deluxe publications make wonderful gifts for those with a taste for the finer things.

The Wirtz Gardens

Wirtz International

Frédéric Lagrange: Mongolia

Oasis in the City

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jean Prouvé

Galerie Patrick Seguin

ROBOTS 1:1

Vitra Design Museum

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