Art:

Picasso

Written by Philippe Dagen

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $150.00

Art critic and scholar Philippe Dagen approaches Picasso as a subject through a series of questions. What does it mean to be an artist in the twentieth century? What does it mean to be an artist in the time of newspapers and museums, in a time when the art market has... Read more >

Marc Chagall

Written by Jonathan Wilson

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $19.95

Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall’s work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an... Read more >

Oooh! Picasso

Written by Mil Niepold and Jeanyves Verdu

Format: Hardcover, 48 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95

Crisp close-ups of the everyday objects that Pablo Picasso transformed into sculpture offer a fresh look at the artist's work. With each page turn, the reader's imagination unfolds as the moon becomes a guitar and a dolphin becomes a bull. The boldly-colored spreads and spare text introduce readers to the creations... Read more >

The Art of Frank Howell

Written by Michael French

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00

FRANK HOWELL’S PAINTINGS dazzle the viewer with their luminous colors and haunting images. A unique chronicler of the native people and natural beauty of the Southwest, Howell pulls us into a spiritually charged world resonant with multiple meanings. Whether he’s painting a pair of hands, a bird in flight, or the... Read more >

Chagall
A Biography
Written by Jackie Wullschlager

Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $40.00

“When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long... Read more >

Tara Donovan

Written by Tara Donovan
Text by Lawrence Weschler, Nicholas Baume and Jen Mergel

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $45.00

Artist Tara Donovan uses commonplace consumer materials--toothpicks, tape, pencils, buttons, paper plates, and the like--to create her dazzling sculptural installations. Often biomorphic or topographical in character, her large-scale abstract works utilize systematic arrangements of thousands or even millions of units. Visually evocative and perceptually seductive, her pieces are at once organic... Read more >

The Artist's Guide to Public Art
How to Find and Win Commissions
Written by Lynn Basa

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $19.95

Public art commissions—how to find them, how to get them



Public-art commissions are challenging and rewarding and this timely guide shows beginning and working visual artists exactly how to start and build a career in the world of public art. Learn how to find, apply for, compete for, and win a public... Read more >

Eric Fischl
1970-2007
Written by Arthur C. Danto and Robert Enright
Afterword by Steve Martin

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2008
Price: $85.00

Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl's engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent... Read more >

Matisse the Master
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
Written by Hilary Spurling

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $25.95

“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat... Read more >

Marc Chagall

Written by Jonathan Wilson

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $19.95

Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall’s work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an... Read more >

Goya

Written by Robert Hughes

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2006
Price: $29.95

Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The... Read more >

Dime-Store Alchemy
The Art of Joseph Cornell
Written by Charles Simic

Format: Hardcover, 116 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $18.95

In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic re?ects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell,
the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.

In a work that is... Read more >

The Murals of John Pugh
Beyond Trompe L'Oeil
Written by Kevin Bruce

Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $150.00

John Pugh has created more than 200 murals and is considered to be the leading proponent, authority, and practitioner of Narrative Illusionism, a term coined to describe his particular mural style. This full-color collection showcases Pugh's most famous pieces, discusses how he revitalized the trompe l'oeil ("trick of the eye") genre... Read more >

The Art of S. Clay Wilson

Written by S. Clay Wilson

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $35.00

THE ART OF S. CLAY WILSON is the long-awaited career retrospective of the most extreme of the Zap cartoonists of the late 1960s. A self-described ""graphic agoraphobe,"" Wilson draws manically dense scenes of lurid mayhem that rank among the seminal works of underground, counterculture American art. It's all here, from the... Read more >

The Murals of John Pugh
Beyond Trompe L'Oeil
Written by Kevin Bruce

Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $35.00

John Pugh has created more than 200 murals and is considered to be the leading proponent, authority, and practitioner of Narrative Illusionism, a term coined to describe his particular mural style. This full-color collection showcases Pugh's most famous pieces, discusses how he revitalized the trompe l'oeil ("trick of the eye") genre... Read more >

John James Audubon
The Making of an American
Written by Richard Rhodes

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $18.95

John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects... Read more >

Kiki Smith

Written by Helaine Posner
Contribution by Christopher Lyon

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2005
Price: $65.00

Through her explorations of the human body and the natural world, internationally acclaimed artist Kiki Smith has confronted the most urgent social and spiritual issues of our day. Direct and accessible, Smith's expressive art engages social and cultural issues in a sometimes viscerally disturbing way. In her recent work, Smith has... Read more >

Matisse the Master
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954
Written by Hilary Spurling

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Price: $40.00

“If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone,” wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose exhibitions draw huge crowds worldwide, was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat... Read more >

Alexis Rockman

Written by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Crary and David Quammen

Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2004
Price: $75.00

At the intersection of science and art, documentary and fantasy, the beautiful and the grotesque lies the work of Alexis Rockman, whose meticulously rendered paintings fascinate, amuse, and alarm -- often simultaneously -- as they explore the relationship between humanity and nature. A native New Yorker who frequented the American Museum... Read more >

Norman Rockwell
A Life
Written by Laura Claridge

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2003
Price: $16.95

Norman Rockwell’s hundreds of memorable covers for The Saturday Evening Post made him a twentieth-century American icon. However, because of the very popularity of his idealized depictions of middle-class life, his more serious paintings have been largely ignored, and he has often been deemed a mere illustrator, not a “real” artist.

In... Read more >

Women of Hawai'i

Written by Pegge Hopper

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2002
Price: $27.95

Inspired by their power and sensuality, artist Pegge Hopper has dedicated her life'¬?s work to painting the women of Hawaii's native population. Renowned throughout the islands as well as on the mainland, Hopper shares her favorite pieces in WOMEN OF HAWAII. In a style that combines classic drawing and graphic design... Read more >

Maxfield Parrish
The Masterworks
Written by Alma Gilbert

Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2001
Price: $85.00

Now in its third edition, THE MASTERWORKS stands as the authoritative collection of Parrish'¬?s best works. Compiled by long-time Parrish expert and curator Alma Gilbert, THE MASTERWORKS brings together the most popular, most important, and most fanciful of Parrish'¬?s paintings. Here you'¬?ll find the glorious Dinkey Bird, the extensive Florentine Fete... Read more >

Isamu Noguchi
A Study of Space
Written by Ana Maria Torres
Foreword by Shoji Sadao

Format: Hardcover, 300 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2000
Price: $75.00

Sculptor, garden designer, and architect, Isamu Noguchi throughout his long career designed exterior and interior spaces that deftly bring together influences from various disciplines. His conception of a "sculpture of space"—his most significant contribution to modern sculpture—was fundamental to these designs. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space is the first comprehensive... Read more >

The Design Art of Nicos Zographos

Written by Peter Bradford
Introduction by George Lois

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2000
Price: $50.00

The world's most singular, severely elegant collection of contemporary furniture has been created by Nicos Zographos. He has produced hundreds of striking designs for thousands of spaces in America and Europe. Many great architects like Philip Johnson, Gordon Bunshaft, Walter Gropius, and I. M. Pei have used his work to complement... Read more >