Malick Sidibe

Written by Laura Serani and Sabrina Zannier
Edited by Laura Incardona

Format: Trade Paperback, 140 pages
Publisher: Skira
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-88-572-1125-1 (88-572-1125-8)

Born in 1936 at Soloba, in the Yanfolila Cercle, Mali, Malik Sidibé is now an internationally recognized artist and is considered the greatest African photographer.

In1962, just after Mali proclaimed its independence, Sidibé opened his studio in Bamako, devoting himself to reportage and documentary photography. His famous black-and-white images portray youth... Read more >

Conversations with Frank Gehry

Written by Barbara Isenberg

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26800-6 (0-307-26800-4)

An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and fascinating insights into the man and his work.

Gehry’s subjects range... Read more >

How Prints Look

Written by William Ivins

Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: August 15, 1987
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6647-8 (0-8070-6647-8)

“The most famous introduction to prints. Through a series of enlarged details of prints in various media, Ivins makes clear the stylistic qualities peculiar to each technique.” - Choice Read more >

The Renaissance
A Short History
Written by Paul Johnson

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 6, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6619-0 (0-8129-6619-8)

The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern and producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the... Read more >

The Lost Battles
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Written by Jonathan Jones

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59475-4 (0-307-59475-0)

From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine... Read more >

Typography and Graphic Design
From Antiquity to the Present
Written by Roxanne Jubert and Serge Lemoine
Foreword by Ellen Lupton

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Flammarion
On Sale: December 26, 2006
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-2-08-030523-7 (2-08-030523-9)

This chronological study traces the evolution of graphic form, from Antiquity through the Middle Ages and up through the age of technology. Each period is explained in detail, from Classical craftsmanship to the changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution and the modern-day potential of the digital world. As computers now... Read more >

Blindspot
A Novel
Written by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52620-3 (0-385-52620-2)

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and distinguished historians, Blindspot is at once history and fiction, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce. Set in boisterous, rebellious Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, it ingeniously weaves together the fictional stories... Read more >

Visual Shock
A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
Written by Michael Kammen

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3464-2 (1-4000-3464-7)

In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The... Read more >

Hide/Seek
Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
Written by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward

Format: Hardcover, 296 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-299-7 (1-58834-299-9)

*2011 ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award
*An Outstanding Academic Title of 2011 — Choice Magazine

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture is the companion book to the first major museum exhibition in American history to focus on lesbian and gay art and culture from the late nineteenth century to the present... Read more >

The Angel of the Left Bank
The Secrets of Delacroix's Parisian Masterpiece
Written by Jean-Paul Kauffmann

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7086-9 (0-8129-7086-1)

In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix’s crowning masterwork, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way.

With the same insight and understanding he brought to his National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated The Black Room... Read more >

Experimental Drawing, 30th Anniversary Edition
Creative Exercises Illustrated by Old and New Masters
Written by Robert Kaupelis

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: August 1, 1992
Price: $23.99
ISBN: 978-0-8230-1622-8 (0-8230-1622-6)

Stimulating exercises to help beginner to advanced students push the boundaries of traditional drawing.

As with most art forms, it's best to comprehend traditional drawing techniques before you break the rules. But once you've mastered the basics, you may find that you gravitate to more abstract ways of rendering everything from still... Read more >

Artists in Love
From Picasso & Gilot to Christo & Jeanne-Claude, A Century of Creative and Romantic Partnerships
Written by Veronica Kavass

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Welcome Books
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 978-1-59962-113-5 (1-59962-113-4)

For centuries, great artists have been drawn together in friendship and in love. In Artists in Love, curator and writer Veronica Kavass delves into the passionate and creative underpinnings of the art world’s most provocative romances. From Picasso and Francoise Gilot to Lee Miler and Man Ray to Saul Steinberg and... Read more >

Journey to the Abyss

Written by Harry Kessler
Edited by Laird Easton

Format: Trade Paperback, 960 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27843-2 (0-307-27843-3)

These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature... Read more >

Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West

Written by Joni Louise Kinsey

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: June 17, 1992
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-170-1 (1-56098-170-9)

Presenting the first in-depth study of Thomas Moran’s early western landscapes, Joni Louise Kinsey describes how the artist created three monumental paintings–The Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone (1872), The Chasm of the Colorado (1873-74), and The Mountain of the Holy Cross (1875)–that, in the aftermath of the Civil War, evoked the... Read more >

Here We Are

Written by Panos Kokkinias
Contribution by Regis Durand, Alexandra Moschovi and Susan Kismaric

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: powerHouse Books
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-57687-574-2 (1-57687-574-1)

Here We Are is an anthology of Panos Kokkinias’ widely exhibited fine-art photography, from 1994 through 2007. The monograph consists of four sections, each representing different bodies of work linked by a common theme: Kokkinias’ personal, ongoing obsession with existential subject matter.

• Home (1994-1995), was produced during a difficult personal period... Read more >

Ryan McGinley
Whistle for the Wind
Contribution by Chris Kraus, John Kelsey and Gus Van Sant

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3831-8 (0-8478-3831-5)

In 2002, two years after Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in a Soho gallery, he created inexpensive handmade books of a sampling of his work titled The Kids Are Alright. Those books eventually found their way to Sylvia Wolf, then curator of photography at the... Read more >

Master of Shadows
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38735-6 (0-307-38735-6)

Although his popularity is eclipsed by Rembrandt today, Peter Paul Rubens was revered by his contemporaries as the greatest painter of his era, if not of all history. His undeniable artistic genius, bolstered by a modest disposition and a reputation as a man of tact and discretion, made him a favorite... Read more >

The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Written by Erik Larson

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72560-9 (0-375-72560-1)

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the... Read more >

The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Written by Erik Larson

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: February 11, 2003
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-609-60844-9 (0-609-60844-4)

Winner, 2004 Edgar Award

Winner, 2003 International Horror Guild Award for Non-fiction

2003 National Book Award Finalist, Non-Fiction

Vintage Paperback is Available

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the... Read more >

Edward Hopper
An Intimate Biography
Written by Gail Levin

Format: Hardcover, 780 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-2930-9 (0-8478-2930-8)

"A definitive biography." --Robert Hughes, Time

"A nearly flawless account of a remarkable artist . . . a compelling and accessible narrative for anyone even remotely interested in modern American art."
--Michael Kammen, The New York Times Book Review

This acclaimed biography of Edward Hopper is essential reading for anyone interested... Read more >

Presidential Campaign Posters
Two Hundred Years of Election Art
Written by The Library Of Congress

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-59474-554-6 (1-59474-554-4)

Here are 100 ready-to-frame political campaign posters from the annals of American history. The candidates range from Andrew Jackson (“Defender of Beauty and Booty”) and William Henry Harrison (“Have Some Hard Cider!”) to Richard Nixon (“He’s the One!”), Barack Obama (“Hope”), and many, many more. The posters are backed with colorful... Read more >

Successful Drawing

Written by Andrew Loomis

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-85768-761-6 (0-85768-761-1)

The illustrator Andrew Loomis is revered amongst artists for his mastery of drawing technique and his clean, realist style. His hugely influential series of art instruction books have never been bettered and Successful Drawing, the third in Titan's programme of facsimile editions, returns this classic title to print for the first... Read more >

Vivian Maier
Street Photographer
Written by Vivian Maier
Edited by John Maloof
Contribution by Geoff Dyer

Format: Hardcover, 136 pages
Publisher: powerHouse Books
On Sale: November 16, 2011
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-57687-577-3 (1-57687-577-6)

A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. It is hard enough to find these qualities in trained photographers with... Read more >

The Purloined Clinic
Selected Writings
Written by Janet Malcolm

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74810-6 (0-679-74810-5)

The Purloined Clinic is a retrospective of essays, reviews, and reports that reflect the range and depth of Janet Malcolm's engagement with psychology, criticism, art, and literature.

She examines aspects of “that absurdist collaboration,” the psychoanalytic dialogue, from which come “small, stray sell recognitions that no other human relationship yields, brought forward... Read more >

Reading Pictures
What We Think About When We Look at Art
Written by Alberto Manguel

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75922-2 (0-375-75922-0)

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can... Read more >