Top 10
Devin Allen: Baltimore
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt Jr. and Michal Raz-Russo. Steidl, Sept. 3 ($75, ISBN 978-3-96999-361-3)
Devin Allen, who is best known for photographing the 2015 protests in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, collects his images of the city’s Black communities.
Dürer’s Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East
Susan Dackerman. Princeton Univ., Sept. 10 ($55, ISBN 978-0-691-25044-1)
Art historian Dackerman claims that the controversial use of Muslim figures by German Renaissance painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer has long been misunderstood.
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now
Edited by Akili Tommasino. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nov. 26 ($65, ISBN 978-1-58839-785-0)
Curator Tommasino surveys three centuries of Black artists’ interest in ancient Egyptian iconography and mythology.
Hail Murray! The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982–1995
Murray Bowles. Last Gasp, Sept. 15 ($39.95, ISBN 978-0-86719-927-7)
Bowles, a chronicler of the 1980s and ’90s East Bay punk scene, presents his photos of bands including Green Day and Operation Ivy.
I.M. Pei: Life Is Architecture
Shirley Surya and Aric Chen. Thames & Hudson, Sept. 10 ($85, ISBN 978-0-500-48102-8)
The authors track the Chinese American architect’s life and career, which involved such noteworthy projects as the 1980s expansion of the Louvre.
Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue
Edited by Lucy Gallun. Museum of Modern Art, Sept. 24 ($50, ISBN 978-1-63345-164-3)
The career retrospective catalogue for Robert Frank’s first MoMA solo exhibition offers insight on the process behind The Americans and other works.
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit
Edited by Catherine Wood. Tate, Sept. 3 ($50, ISBN 978-1-84976-897-9)
Mike Kelley’s multidisciplinary art includes the Ahh Youth! series of yearbook-style photos, one of which was immortalized on a Sonic Youth album cover.
Playgirl: The Official History of a Cult Magazine
Playgirl magazine. Cernunnos, Oct. 29 ($30, ISBN 978-1-4197-7492-8)
The magazine marks its 50th anniversary with an illustrated history of its role in the 1970s women’s liberation movement and its enduring relevance in gay culture.
Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard
Beth Garrabrant. Simon & Schuster, Nov. 12 ($35, ISBN 978-1-6680-3600-6)
Garrabrant, whose photos of Taylor Swift have been featured on the musician’s last few album covers, debuts with a collection of her portraits of American teens.
Tracey Emin Paintings
Tracey Emin, David Dawson, and Jennifer Higgie. Phaidon, Oct. 22 ($100, ISBN 978-1-83866-861-7)
The contemporary British installation artist continues in an emotionally raw vein with this compilation of 300 of her blood-red and ghost-blue expressionist paintings.
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Abbeville
Carmen Cicero: Drawings and Watercolors: Tales of Intrigue and Humor by David Ebony (Oct. 15, $75, ISBN 978-0-7892-1491-1) comprises life-size reproductions of the nonagenarian artist’s works on paper and an essay by Art in America editor Ebony.
Abrams
Glamour: An Extraordinary History: 85 Years of Women Breaking Boundaries by Glamour magazine (Oct. 15, $50, ISBN 978-1-4197-6705-0). This illustrated retrospective tracks the magazine from its 1939 founding by Condé Nast through its early publication of writing by Gloria Steinem, as well as features of or contributions by presidents from Kennedy to Obama.
Gray Malin: Dogs by Gray Malin (Oct. 15, $45, ISBN 978-1-4197-6923-8). Landscape photographer Malin turns his lens on dogs for these portraits, in which the animals are often posed as stylish tourists in such locations as Aspen and Beverly Hills.
Amistad
Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture by Shirley Neal (Sept. 24, $34.99, ISBN 978-0-06-308083-6). In this photo-studded volume, journalist Neal surveys the impact of Black creative and political expression on popular culture, which she claims is greater now than ever.
Beacon
Don’t Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture by Aaron Betsky (Nov. 5, $31.95, ISBN 978-0-8070-1486-8). Arguing for the value of reuse in building projects, art and architecture critic Betsky points to successful postindustrial projects such as MassMOCA.
Brandeis Univ.
Jewish Country Houses, edited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green (Jan. 15, $40, ISBN 978-1-68458-220-4), presents a history of Jewish country houses designed and maintained in England, continental Europe, and the U.S., with photos by Hélène Binet.
Chronicle
The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories by Carol Verburg (Oct. 15, $50, ISBN 978-1-7972-2953-9) offers a career-spanning retrospective of Edward Gorey’s illustrations and plays.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse (Nov. 19, $30, ISBN 978-0-374-61567-3). Biographer Strouse examines the patron-muse relationship between the American
portrait painter and the London Jewish family.
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Canadian Photographs: Geoffrey James by Geoffrey James (Oct. 22, $35, ISBN 978-1-77327-253-5) collects photos of rural and urban quotidian scenes that range across Canada for a view into the state of the nation.
Flammarion
Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde by Lynn Gumpert et al. (Oct. 8, $45, ISBN 978-2-08-044720-3). This
catalogue accompanies an exhibition dedicated to the Paris art dealer, who represented Picasso, Matisse, and other influential modernists.
Goose Lane
Mashel Teitelbaum: Terror and Beauty by Andrew Kear (Sept. 24, $55, ISBN 978-1-77310-430-0) presents more than 200 paintings by the Canadian artist, along with essays that address his rebellious nature and interdisciplinary career.
Harper
Still Life with Remorse by Maira Kalman (Oct. 15, $35, ISBN 978-0-06-339181-9) combines full-color reproductions of 50 paintings by designer and illustrator Kalman with an autobiographical narrative of her family’s history.
Hirmer
Calatrava: Art by Santiago Calatrava, edited by Nick Mafi (Jan. 19, $75, ISBN 978-3-7774-4214-3), presents the Spanish architect’s paintings and sculpture, and discusses the overlap between art and architecture in his work.
David Smith: The Nature of Sculpture, edited by Suzanne Ramljak (Oct. 20, $40, ISBN 978-3-7774-4372-0). In this survey of the sculptor’s steel abstractions, which also includes paintings and drawings, curator Jed Morse and others emphasize the role of nature in David Smith’s process.
Narrative Wisdom and African Arts, edited by Nichole N. Bridges (Sept. 19, $60, ISBN 978-3-7774-4373-7), studies the history of African art through the lens of oral history and other cultural traditions, with more than 200 color reproductions.
Image Text Ithaca
George Saunders & Joshua Lutz: Orange Blossom Trail, edited by Nicholas Muellner and Catherine Taylor (Aug. 20, $40 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-7334971-5-2). This collection of photos from Joshua Lutz and writing by George Saunders explores the realities of working-class life and addresses income inequality.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph by Abraham Thomas (Oct. 15, $30 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-58839-783-6). This illustrated retrospective asserts the renewed relevance of Rudolph’s mid-century modern houses in Sarasota, Fla., and brutalist urban designs.
MIT
A Book About Ray by Ellen Levy (Oct. 15, $54.95, ISBN 978-0-262-04874-3) takes stock of marginal artist Ray Johnson, a founding member of the mail art movement in the 1960s.
Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines by Mark Wasiuta (Jan. 21, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-262-04926-9) considers Frederick Kiesler’s architecture and design work, including his recently fabricated and long-unrealized Mobile Home Library.
Lost Days, Endless Nights: Photography and Film from Los Angeles by Andrew Witt (Dec. 3, $55, ISBN 978-0-262-04907-8). Photographer Witt documents the environmental conditions of working people in Los Angeles.
Monacelli
Luciano Fabro by Margit Rowell (Oct. 22, $74.95, ISBN 978-1-58093-611-8). Critic and curator Rowell assesses Italian sculptor Luciano Fabro’s contributions to and departure from the mid-20th-century avant-garde arte povera movement.
National Geographic
National Geographic World from Above by Jeffrey Kerby (Oct. 1, $45, ISBN 978-1-4262-2340-2) compiles aerial shots of landscapes, cities, and marine life from the magazine’s photographers along with insights about their processes.
National Portrait Gallery
Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens, edited by Charlotte Bolland (Aug. 20, $45, ISBN 978-1-85514-529-0) profiles the women who married the volatile 16th-century English king and includes images of their letters and other ephemera along with their portraits.
New York Review Books
The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography by Benjamin Swett (Oct. 15, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68137-863-3). The photographer and essayist considers questions of ecology, perception, and the photographer’s relationship with technology in this collection.
Norton
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee (Sept. 10, $35, ISBN 978-1-324-00695-4) traces the impact of the bloody and short-lived 1871 Paris Commune on the impressionist art movement.
OR Books
Autobiography of a Skyscraper by Francis Greenburger (Jan. 21, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-68219-516-1) tells the story behind the construction of Chicago’s 74-story 1000M apartment tower, expected to be completed later this year, describing the financing, design, and workers.
Phaidon
Cameron Jamie by Philippe Vergne, Ralph Rugoff, and Elena Filipovic (Nov. 19, $54.95, ISBN 978-1-83866-481-7) documents how Cameron Jamie, a peer of Harmony Korine known for bizarro performance pieces and mixed media artworks, is driven in his work to explore the impact of pop culture on everyday lives.
Korean Feminist Art by Kim Hong-hee (Sept. 15, $79.95, ISBN 978-1-83866-705-4) delineates the aesthetics, politics, and themes of several generations of Korean artists working from the mid-20th-century to the present.
Princeton Univ.
The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy by Vishaan Chakrabarti (Sept. 24, $37, ISBN 978-0-691-20843-5). Architect Chakrabarti surveys centuries of urban designs around the world to make his case for sustainable urban architecture.
Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects by Sequoia Miller (Sept. 10, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-691-26530-8). Miller, a curator for the Gardiner Museum, discusses the classical inspirations behind Magdalene Odundo’s ornate pottery and the drawings that shape her practice.
Repeater
Spirit Behind the Lens: The Making of a Hip-Hop Photographer by Eddie Otchere (Sept. 10, $30 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-915672-34-6) gathers Otchere’s photos of rappers from hip-hop’s golden age to the present, along with an account of the passions that drove his career.
Rizzoli
The Arctic: A Darker Shade of White by Sebastian Copeland (Oct. 1, $85, ISBN 978-0-8478-3168-5). Photographer Copeland shares details of his Arctic journeys to capture the polar ice caps and pleads for their preservation.
The Day of the Dead: A Celebration of Death and Life by Déborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena (Sept. 17, $65, ISBN 978-0-8478-7267-1) studies the Mexican holiday’s traditions and evolution through photos of folk art and contemporary festivities.
Rizzoli Electa
Ryan McGinley: Yearbook by Ryan McGinley (Sept. 24, $57.50, ISBN 978-0-8478-6517-8) encompasses 10 years of the photographer’s playful and emotionally vulnerable nude studio portraits of his friends and peers.
Smithsonian
Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of Dy Begay, edited by Cécile R. Ganteaume and Jennifer McLerran (Sept. 24, $50, ISBN 978-1-58834-756-5). This decades-spanning retrospective of the Diné artist’s tapestries illuminates how Begay learned to weave from her family and how she draws inspiration from the Navajo Nation landscape.
Tate
Larry Achiampong: If It Don’t Exist, Build It by J.J. Charlesworth (Sept. 10, $65, ISBN 978-1-84976-849-8). Critic Charlesworth presents the work of the British Ghanaian artist, who is known for his publicly commissioned roundels.
Thames & Hudson
Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography by Zorian Clayton (Nov. 12, $60, ISBN 978-0-500-48096-0) spans more than 150 years of queer expression in photos.
Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age, edited by Markus Bertsch and Johannes Graves (Sept. 17, $65, ISBN 978-0-500-02833-9), supplements a retrospective of the German painter’s romantic landscapes that incorporates contributions from contemporary artists including Kehinde Wiley.
Titan
The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film by John Walsh (Sept. 3, $50, ISBN 978-1-83541-001-1) commemorates the 75th anniversary of Carol Reed’s noir of post-WWII Vienna with an illustrated story of its production.
Univ. of Chicago
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, edited by Dalila Scruggs (Sept. 19, $65, ISBN 978-0-226-83657-7), surveys the work of the Harlem Renaissance–associated artist, who lived in Mexico and was barred from entering the U.S. on suspicion of being a communist.
