Marc Chagall

Written by Jonathan Wilson

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $11.99

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

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... 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 >

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 >

Live Through This
On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev

Format: Trade Paperback, 250 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $17.95

A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This (a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards) is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse... Read more >

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Written by Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere
Introduction by Philip Jacks

Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99

A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern... 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 >

Things to Make and Do Journal

Written by Nikki Mcclure

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $16.95

This gorgeous new journal from popular Northwest artist Nikki McClure is the perfect place to record all the projects to build, plans to make, recipes to cook, things to wish for, books to read, places to travel, presents to give, and experiences to discover, to name just a few. Based loosely... Read more >

Pleasure Palaces
The Art and Homes of Hunt Slonem
Text by Vincent Katz
Illustrated by Hunt Slonem

Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $60.00

Artist Hunt Slonem creates his magical paintings and sculptures of flora, fauna, saints, and other subjects with inspiration that he draws not only from his sense of spirituality, but also from his environment in a “self-created world” filled with myriad exotic forms, vivid colors, and mystical essences. While the public can... Read more >

Marc Chagall

Written by Jonathan Wilson

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

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

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... Read more >

Dirty Pretty Things

Photographed by Nobuyoshi Araki

Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2007
Price: $35.00

In 2005, the brilliant and controversial Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan’s leading photographers, traveled to Europe for major exhibitions of his work at London’s Barbican Centre and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Already celebrated for his unflinching portrayals of Tokyo in collections such as Tokyo Still Life and Tokyo Lucky... Read more >

Bombshell
The Life and Crimes of Claw Money
Written by Claw Money

Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2007
Price: $35.00

Bombshell, her first book, explodes all preconceived notions about the icon many have seen but few have known. From the deepest recesses of her shoeboxes comes this incredible compendium of photographs, designs, personal letters, and other ephemera collected throughout her life. Whether it’s shots of spots she bombed in the Bronx... Read more >

Jeremiah
A Romantic Vision
Illustrated by Jeremiah Goodman
Designed by Sam Shahid
Introduction by Edward Albee

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Price: $85.00

While most can only imagine the lavish living quarters filled with fine china, dramatic drapery, and regal furniture that lie behind the iron-clad gates of the most exclusive addresses in America, Jeremiah Goodman has had the rare opportunity to enter and paint his impressions of the residences of the rich and famous for the past 54... 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 >

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: $21.00

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 >

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Written by Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere
Introduction by Philip Jacks

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.95

A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern... 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 >