Art and Design

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Updated July 14, 2025
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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
Sebastian Smee
Paper Book
From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans--then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army...
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
Brian Eno
Paper Book
Why do we need art? What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated,...
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
Orlando Whitfield
Paper Book
A NEW YORKER, ECONOMIST, AND TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A dazzling insider's account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer ...
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
Jean Strouse
Paper Book
Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by...
Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World
Amber Massie-Blomfield
Paper Book
What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? Can it be a genuine form of political resistance? What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring work, Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the work of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers-...
Art, Annotated: The World's 500 Greatest Paintings Explained
DK
Paper Book
A stunning art gallery in a book, art, annotated spans more than 3,000 years of paintings, sculptures, and prints. Combining reproductions of each work of art with precise annotations and visual analysis, it is an expertly curated selection of the finest art ever created....
How Banksy Saved Art History
Kelly Grovier
Paper Book
A Spectator Book of the Year 'Grovier's book reframes [Banksy's] works in a new light. Inextricably linked to Da Vinci, Monet and Van Gogh, Banksy not only makes art but reinvigorates it' Daily Mail A new take on the history of art - from...
The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art
Susan Owens
Paper Book
Winner of the Apollo Book of the Year Award 2024 Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehistoric ancestors...
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux
Paper Book
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Five Books Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 Shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize An original and revealing portrait of the misunderstood French Post-Impressionist artist. Paul...
Studio Ghibli: Architecture in Animation
Studio Ghibli
Paper Book
A deluxe art book featuring exclusive commentary, sketches, concept art, and paintings detailing the unique architecture in Studio Ghibli's films. Explore the dazzling animated worlds of Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,...
Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Nicholas Fox Weber
Paper Book
The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more-from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber "As fastidiously passionate as his subject's paintings....
Housesketching: Learn to Create Energetic and Expressive Architectural Drawings
Albert Kiefer
Paper Book
Housesketching shows artists of all skill levels how to sketch architecture expressively and become more creative in the process.
Manet: A Model Family
Diana Seave Greenwald
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...
Great Women Sculptors
Phaidon Editors
Paper Book
As seen in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and ELLE Decoration A celebration of more than 300 groundbreaking women sculptors that surveys 500 years of creative ingenuity from around the world Presenting a more expansive and...
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
Russ Ramsey
Paper Book
Beyond a mere introduction to great art, Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart is about loving to learn what art has to teach us about the wonder and struggle of being alive. Did you know that: Vincent van Gogh's attempt to start an artist's colony with Paul Gauguin lasted...
Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe's Medieval Monuments
Diana Darke
Paper Book
Who really built Europe's finest Romanesque monuments? Clergymen presiding over holy sites are credited throughout history, while highly skilled creators remain anonymous. But the buildings speak for themselves.This groundbreaking book explores the evidence embedded in medieval monasteries,...
Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age
Markus Bertsch
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...
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
Fay Blanchard
Paper Book
This publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). Described in 1923 as 'the most important woman painter in Europe', Bell was a pioneering modernist and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group,...
Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life
Stephen J. Campbell
Paper Book
How our image of the Renaissance's most famous artist is a modern myth Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his extensive writings, yet...
Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras
Sarah Chapelle
Paper Book
An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Dazzling. Incomparable. Unforgettable. The definitive book of Taylor Swift's fashion evolution. This gorgeous hardcover edition has gilded gold edges, foiled cover accents and colored endpapers....
Flight into Egypt : Black artists and ancient Egypt, 1876-now
Akili Tommasino
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...
Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist
Jane Rosenberg
Paper Book
From America's top courtroom sketch artist, a penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about her dramatic four-decade career "A mesmerizing look at this rarest of professions..."-Bookpage STARRED review "Readers will be hard-pressed to...
A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects
Robell Awake
Paper Book
Ten beautifully illustrated essays tell the stories of handcrafted objects and their makers, providing inspiration and insight into Black history and craftsmanship. Black artisans have long been central to American art and design, creating innovative and highly...
Yayoi Kusama (Little People, Big Dreams)
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Paper Book
Learn about incredible story of Yayoi Kusama! The groundbreaking contemporary artist who covered the world in dots.    Little Yayoi grew up in Japan and loved creating art. Although her parents didn't approve of her pastime, Yayoi continued to express herself through...
Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
Aaron Betsky
Paper Book
In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuse As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our...
The Universe in 100 Colors: Weird and Wondrous Colors from Science and Nature
Tyler Thrasher
Paper Book
At the intersection of science, art, and design, this must-have coffee table book highlights 100 mind-blowing colors that you've likely never seen before. From Instagram sensation and self-described "mad scientist artist" Tyler Thrasher and creator of the popular Matter subscription...
Background Artist: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
Karen Fang
Paper Book
Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award (Honorary Mention, Adult Non-fiction category)  You might not know the name Tyrus Wong, but you probably know some of the images he created, including scenes from the beloved Disney classic ...
Draw Amazing Faces: Learn the Basics and Develop Your Own Style
Pypah Santos
Paper Book
Create stunning portraits while developing your own remarkable artistic style with this practical, inspiring, and easy-to-follow guide. Draw Amazing Faces is your go-to reference for crafting stunning portraits from scratch. Join Pypah Santos, the celebrated artist and...
The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography
Benjamin Swett
Paper Book
An ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself. In The Picture Not Taken, the photographer and writer Benjamin Swett considers the...
The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry
Stacey D'Erasmo
Paper Book
The author of The Art of Intimacy asks eight legendary artists: What has sustained you in the long run? How do we keep doing this--making art? Stacey D'Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had published three novels when she asked herself this question. She was...
Suspended Moment: The Architecture of Frida Escobedo
Thomas Abraham
Paper Book
An illuminating profile of one of today's most innovative and forward-looking architects, whose materials-based practice explores how space can provoke emotional response Frida Escobedo's (b. 1979) designs for public spaces have received global accolades. In 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of...
Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art
Ann Temkin
Paper Book
Profiles of fourteen women who transformed the country's foremost modern art museum in its fledgling years. Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art owes much of its success to a group of remarkable women who shaped its future during its first decades. Because there were few...
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
Dalila Scruggs
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...
National Geographic World From Above
Jeffrey Kerby
Paper Book
Go on a global aerial odyssey with this photographic compendium of more than 200 full-color images from on high, by the world's most innovative photographers at National Geographic. See the world from a unique perspective with this gorgeous, oversized coffee table book-the perfect...

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