Art and Design

Recent movers and shakers in art and design.

Updated June 24, 2025
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Surrealism
Paper Book
Official book accompanying the blockbuster centenary celebration of Surrealism at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; 4 September 2024 - 13 January 2025. This essential catalogue explores the legacy of the art movement that changed everything. "Organisers say it is an unprecedented...
Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men
Paper Book
This richly illustrated volume paints a complex portrait of Caillebotte, masculinity, and identity in late nineteenth-century France. More than any other French Impressionist, painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) observed and depicted the many men in his life,...
Caspar David Friedrich : The Soul ofNature
Paper Book
A richly illustrated volume surveying the career of Caspar David Friedrich, the German landscape painter whose emotionally profound visions of nature are among the most iconic works of Romantic art   The paintings and drawings of the nineteenth-century German...
Gertrude Abercrombie : The WholeWorld Is a Mystery
Paper Book
A sumptuously produced retrospective on the beloved and under-published Chicago-based Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, the "queen of the bohemian artists" This book is the definitive scholarly volume on Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, who was a critical figure in the...
Paris 1874 : The Impressionist Moment
Paper Book
A wide-ranging exploration of the birth of impressionism centered around the landmark exhibition in Paris in 1874   "The catalogue, in unusual tall format, is particularly attractive and vivacious, full of fresh material and images, expanding the Impressionist cast...
Housesketching : Learn to Create Energetic and Expressive Architectural Drawings
Kiefer, Albert.
Ebook
Manet: A Model Family
Paper Book
A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manet's family to his art All families are complicated, but the family of Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was more complicated than most. The artist married a piano teacher who worked for his wealthy parents. Her...
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
Paper Book
'An encyclopedic necessity for anyone interested in contemporary art.' - Vanity Fair 'We want people to see themselves... We want you to see the giants on whose shoulders we stand.' - Alicia Keys The first book to showcase selections from the groundbreaking...
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
Paper Book
Stunning treasures from the dynasty that created the Taj Mahal are showcased in this lavish book. The Great Mughals presents, for the first time, the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r. 1556...
Drawing Basics and Beyond : Transform Observation into Imagination
Kim, Sorie.
Ebook
Drawing Basics and Beyond provides the tools, techniques, and inspiration artists need to improve their sketchbook practice and use the information they gather to create imaginative artwork.
Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age
Paper Book
Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich's birth, the most thorough Friedrich retrospective in many years. Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is renowned as the Romantic painter par excellence, his works icons of an age of major social upheaval. His...
Fragmentary forms : a new history of collage
Gowrley, Freya
Ebook
A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to today While the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in...
MANDALAS : MAPPING THE BUDDHIST ART OF TIBET
Paper Book
Exploring the significance of Tibetan mandalas from their ancient origins to the present day, this gorgeously illustrated volume provides a contemporary perspective on a centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe   A New York Times "Best Art Book of...
I.M. Pei: Life is Architecture
Paper Book
The story of internationallyrenowned architect I. M. Pei'slife and work. I. M. Pei (1917-2019) was one of the world's most influential architects. Born and raised in China, Pei trained and worked in the United States, establishing a practice that spanned seven decades and multiple...
Drawing and Illustrating Architecture
Paper Book
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now
Paper Book
The first publication to examine the symbolic importance of ancient Egypt to Black artists and other cultural figures, from the nineteenth century through the Harlem Renaissance to the present   From the late nineteenth century onward, Black Americans looked to...
I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now
Paper Book
A critical and celebratory counternarrative to what we know of Japanese photography today.  I'm So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese...
Guillaume Lethiere
Paper Book
A groundbreaking publication on the Caribbean-born French Neoclassical painter Guillaume Lethière and his extraordinary, yet largely unexamined career Born in the French colony of Guadeloupe, Guillaume Lethière (1760-1832) was a key figure in the history of art during the late eighteenth...
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK, 1970-90
Paper Book
Tate Britain exhibition: 8 November 2023 - 7 April 2024 National Galleries Scotland: Modern, Edinburgh: 25 May 2024 - 26 January 2025 Whitworth Art Gallery, the University of Manchester: 7 March - 1 June 2025 A timely exploration of the work and lived...
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
Paper Book
A book highlighting the work of pioneering Black printmaker, sculptor, and activist Elizabeth Catlett. Accomplished printmaker and sculptor, avowed feminist, and lifelong activist Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) built a remarkable career around intersecting passions for formal rigor and...
Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
Vishaan Chakrabarti
Ebook
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The Met : A History of a Museum and Its People
Conlin, Jonathan.
Ebook
This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings.
Drawing Nature : The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist
Feltner, Linda Miller.
Ebook
A visually stunning exploration of the artistic process by an award-winning nature artist Drawing Nature presents the creative process of an acclaimed nature artist, guiding readers from field sketches to finished art and demonstrating how science and the close...
Francis Alys: Ricochets
Paper Book
This immersive publication explores the artistic journey of one of today's most prominent conceptual artists, with a specific focus on his groundbreaking series, "Children's Games." Whether he's moving a sand dune in Peru or pushing an enormous ice block through the streets of...
Relics of War : The History of a Photograph
Raab, Jennifer.
Ebook
How a single haunting image tells a story about violence, mourning, and memory In 1865, Clara Barton traveled to the site of the notorious Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where she endeavored to name the missing and the dead. The future founder of the...
Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms : Selected Writing of Mary Ann Caws
Caws, Mary Ann.
Ebook
A collection of highlights from Mary Ann Caws's long, highly distinguished career writing about literature, art, and modernism.   Throughout her long, highly distinguished career writing about literature and art, Mary Ann Caws has excavated, illuminated, and examined in depth...
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice
Paper Book
Contemporary artists address connections between climate activism and social justice in their work The lungs of our planet are under threat, invaded by carbon emissions, plastics and man-made pollutants. As part of the Getty Center's PST ART initiative, Breath(e)...
Grime, Glitter, and Glass : The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art
Greene, Nikki A.
Ebook
In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. Focusing on the multimedia art of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons,...

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