ABBEVILLE PRESS
Self-Portraits(Apr., $135) by Omar Calabrese. This discussion of self-portraiture through the ages features 300 illustrations.
21st Century House(Apr., $29.95) by Jonathan Bell profiles more than 50 new, architecturally distinguished homes.
ABRAMS
Freight Train Graffiti(June, $29.95) by Roger Gastman et al. charts the subculture's evolution through more than 1,000 images and interviews with 125 train artists and writers. Ad/promo.Pollock Matters(Aug., $40) by Ellen G. Landau reproduces 25 Pollock paintings discovered in 2005 and places them in context.
ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS PRESS (dist. by Sterling)
Faeries and Other Fantastical Folk: The Faery Paintings of Maxine Gadd (Mar., $19.95) by Maxine Gadd showcases her whimsical, highly detailed artwork.
BARRONS
The Bible of Illuminated Letters: A Treasury of Decorative Calligraphy(Mar., $24.99) by Margaret Morgan presents instructions for creating 12 illuminated alphabets.
BIRKHUSER
Bamboo: A Material for Landscape and Garden Design(Apr., $65) by Harry van Trier et al. explores the uses of one of the fastest-growing plants in design.
Thinking Architecture: 2nd Expanded Edition(Mar., $40) by Peter Zumthor. Back in print after many years, this redesigned work includes three new essays and several new illustrations.
CASSELL ILLUSTRATED (dist. by Sterling)
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Costume & Fashion: From 1066 to the Present(Apr., $24.95) by Jack Cassin-Scott ranges from simple 11th-century dress to the excesses of Dior and St. Laurent.
CHAUCER PRESS (dist. by IPM)
Boucher(June, $45) by David Wakefield studies an artist from the Rococo period of the mid-18th century.
COLLINSDESIGN
Smaller Homes: Smart, Elegant, and Efficient Designs(Aug., $35) by Dan Sater introduces ways to use space to make lives easier and more economical.
DC UNIVERSE
Superman: Cover to Cover (May, $39.99). Film directors, artists and writers choose more than 270 favorite Superman comic covers of all time.
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Industrial Design: Techniques and Materials(Apr., $39.95) by Raymond Guidot et al. traces the history of design materials from the Industrial Revolution to contemporary synthetics.
ELLIS LANE (dist. by IPG)
The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit(May, $26.95) by Andrew Dietz investigates art patron Bill Arnett's unusual interactions with naïve artists Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley. $30,000 ad/promo.
5 CONTINENTS EDITIONS (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
1001 Paintings at the Louvre: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century(June, $80) by Vincent Pamarède provides a panorama of 4,000 years of painting history.
GETTY PUBLICATIONS
Joy Lasts: On the Spiritual in Art(Apr., $12.95) by Sister Wendy Beckett discusses the religious and spiritual aspects of 14 works.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses(May, $35) by Karal Ann Marling looks at Grandma Moses as a cultural phenomenon of the postwar period.
HATJE CANTZ (Dist. by D.A.P.)
Henri Matisse: Figure, Color, Space (Mar., $65), edited by Pia Müller-Tamm, explores the painter's obsession with the subject of women in domestic settings.
HUDSON HILLS PRESS
Rafal Olbinski Women: Motifs and Variations(Apr., $50) by Matthew Gurewitsch studies a painter who has built a career around "examining the mystery of women."
Elias Rivera(June, $60) by Edward Lucie-Smith considers the work of Rivera, a student at the Art Students League in the 1950s.
IMAGES PUBLISHING (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
Spa: The Sensuous Experience(Mar., $65) by Robert D. Henry and Julie D. Taylor visits 40 spas around the world.
Marrakech: Living on the Edge of the Desert(Mar., $65) by Daniel Rey goes behind the high walls of Marrakech's houses and depicts their interiors.
ISI BOOKS
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred(July; $28, paper $18) by Philip Bess argues in favor of traditional architecture and urbanism and their relationship to human flourishing.
ISLAND PRESS
Ritual House: Drawing on Nature's Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design(Mar., $35) by Ralph Knowles explains why houses are the embodiment of intuitive rituals.
LAST GASP PRESS
Shag, Ltd. Fine Art Limited Editions: A Catalogue Raisonné (Mar., $39.95) by Douglas Nelson and Shag, aka Josh Agle, is the first comprehensive catalogue of the painter's prints and posters.
LITTLE, BROWN UK (dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Drawing Blood: Forty-Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored(Apr., $55) by Gerald Scarfe collects political cartoons from a longtime New Yorkercontributor.
FRANCES LINCOLN (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens(June, $45) by Vivian Russell retraces the author's steps to capture the surviving gardens from her seminal book of 100 years ago on the subject.
MOUNTAIN PRESS
Out of the West: The Gund Collection of Western Art(Mar., $34.95) by Suzan Campbell includes biographies of the artists.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (dist. by D.A.P.)
Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul(Mar., $60), edited by Kynaston McShine, surveys the Norwegian artist's career from 1880 to 1944.
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary(Mar., $65) by Anthony Bond contains 140 images of self-portraits, from Van Gogh's to Chuck Close's.
NEW VILLAGE PRESS (dist. by Consortium)
Works of Heart: Building Village Through the Arts(Mar., $24.95), edited by Lynne Elizabeth and Suzanne Young, profiles 10 grassroots arts projects that revitalized neighborhoods.
NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS
Damanhur: Temples of Humankind(Apr., $50) by Sylvia Duffagni showcases art and architecture by members of the Alps communal village of Damanhur.
NORTHSTONE PUBLISHING (dist. by Pilgrim Press)
The Spirituality of Art(Apr., $34) by Lois Huey-Heck and Jim Kalnin connects visual art and spiritual journey.
W.W. NORTON
Lighthouses(July, $75) by Sara E. Wermiel surveys these symbols of steadfastness and strength. A Norton Library of Congress Visual Sourcebook.
Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York(Aug., $60) by Jewel Stern and John A. Stuart studies the work of an architect known for his commercial buildings in the Gotham cityscape. A Norton Book for Architects and Designers.
PHAIDON
Andy Warhol "Giant" Size(Mar., $125) features 2,000 images and documents by the pop artist.
Winslow Homer: An American Vision(Apr., $69.95) by Randall C. Griffin presents a full account of Homer's life and work.
P.I.E. BOOKS (dist. by Last Gasp Distributors)
New Shop Image Graphics 2 (Mar., $79) presents more than 100 shops' ads, shopping bags, catalogues and more.
POMEGRANATE
The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews(Mar.; $65, paper $40) by Harvey L. Jones looks at the work of two California artists.
PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
Liquid Stone(Mar., $65), edited by Jean-Louis Cohen and G. Martin Moeller, looks at the second most widely used substance on earth: concrete.
Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design(June, $40), edited by Audrey Bennett, outlines methods in which research has aided design.
ROCKPORT PUBLISHERS
New Masters of Poster Design: Poster Design for the Next Century(Apr., $50) by John Foster showcases posters that serve as communications tools.
Building Design Portfolios: Innovative Concepts for Presenting Your Work(June, $40) by Sara Eisenman explains what sells and what doesn't.
ROTOVISION
What Is Typography?(June, $35) by David Jury breaks down the anatomy of typography to explore tools, processes, methods and more.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON (dist. by Abrams)
China: The Three Emperors, 1662—1795(Mar., $95) by Jessica Rawsom accompanies an exhibit of the same name about three rulers of the Qing dynasty.
SHERIDAN HOUSE
The Wapping Group of Artists: Sixty Years of Painting by the Thames(Mar., $29.95) by Paul Banning et al. looks at this artists' society, founded in 1946.
SKIRA EDITORE (dist. by Rizzoli)
The Art of Silver Jewellery: Minorities of China, the Golden Triangle, Mongolia and Tibet(Mar., $65) by René van der Star et al. presents more than 250 gold necklaces, rings and earrings.
STRUIK PUBLISHERS (dist. by IPM)
African Elegance(Mar., $35) by Ettagale Blauer considers Africa's traditions of crafts and decorative arts.
TATE PUBLISHING, LONDON (dist. by Abrams)
Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris, 1870—1910(Mar., $55) by Anna Gruetzner and Richard Thompson accompanies an exhibit at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., on the relationships between art figures of the late 19th century.
THAMES HUDSON
Josef Albers Formulation: Articulation(Apr., $100) by Josef Albers introduces the ideas and methods of an artist who worked in a variety of media for 40 years.
TUTTLE
New China Architecture(Mar., $49.95) by Xing Ruan showcases Chinese architectural innovation everywhere from private houses to Olympic venues in Beijing.
UNIV. OF CHICAGO PRESS
Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark(June, $45) by Timothy J. Gilfoyle considers Chicago's "front yard"—a combination park, art museum, cultural center and performance space.
UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Thomas Hovenden: His Life and Art(June, $45) by Anne Gregory Terhune studies Hovenden's stylistic contribution to art.
VENDOME
Thomas McKnight's Arcadia(May, $50) by Francesco Colonna discusses 130 paintings of an interior world called Arcadia, populated by nymphs, oracles and angels.
VICTORIA ALBERT MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS (dist. by Abrams)
Modernism: Designing a New World(Mar., $85), edited by Christopher Wilk, explores the meaning and legacy of modernism, 1914—1939.
WELCOME BOOKS
Dance Me to the End of Love(May, $18.95) by Leonard Cohen pairs the title song by the author with paintings by Henri Matisse. Ad/promo.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
Writings on Art(Mar., $25) by Mark Rothko, edited by Miguel Lopez-Ramiro, compiles the artist's published and unpublished writings from 1934 to 1969.
