Actar D
The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles (Mar., $39.95), edited by Kazys Varnelis, uses photos, essays and maps to show an out-of-control but networked city.
Aurum Press
(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)
The English Manor House: From the Archives of Country Life (Apr., $35) by Jeremy Musson gathers photos of British architecture.
Batsford
(dist. by Sterling)
Big Book of Fashion Illustration: A Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration (Mar., $29.95) by Martin Dawber features an array of artists using both traditional and high-tech techniques.
Mitchell Beazley
(dist. by Sterling)
Miller’s Antiques and Collectibles Fact Book: All You Need to Know—in Your Pocket (May, $14.95) by Judith Miller. This illustrated pocket-size guide provides a wealth of detailed information.
Editorial RM
(dist. by D.A.P.)
Images of Death in Mexican Prints (May, $50) by Mercurio López Casillas surveys these images from pre-Hispanic times to the comic pages of today’s newspapers.
5 Continents Editions
(dist. by Antique Collectors’ Club)
Punu: Visions of Africa (Apr., $34.95) by Louis Perrois and Charlotte Grand-Dufay celebrates Punu masks and the artistic culture of Gabon.
Getty Publications
Food and Feasting in Art (Mar., $24.95) by Silvia Malaguzzi, trans. by Brian Phillips. Copious illustrations depict the rituals, customs and symbolism of food.
Hatje Cantz
(dist. by D.A.P.)
Painting in a Man’s World (June, $15) by Diane Broeckhoven et al. collects four short stories based on the lives of four female impressionist painters.
Heyday Books
All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets (Mar., $35) by J. Michael Walker collects Walker’s paintings and stories of L.A.’s 103 streets named after saints.
Merrell Publishers
Big Eye Art: Resurrected and Transformed (Apr. $29.95) by Blonde Blythe showcases the works of more than 20 of today’s “big eye” artists.
MFA Publications
(dist. by D.A.P.)
Antonio López Garcia (Apr., $24.95), edited by Cheryl Brutvan, coincides with a retrospective exhibition of Spain’s leading contemporary realist painter.
MIT Press
Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism (Mar., $22.95) by Anthony Vidler studies the modernist architectural historians Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham and Manfredo Tafuri.
Museum of Modern Art
(dist. by D.A.P.)
Henri Matisse (June, $9.95) by Carolyn Lanchner features Matisse’s most memorable achievements; launches the modern master series from MoMA.
NAI Publishers
(dist. by D.A.P.)
Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms (Mar., $49.95), edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann, accompanies an exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum.
National Galleries of Scotland
(dist. by Antique Collectors’ Club)
Andy Warhol: A Celebration of Life and Death (Mar., $30) by Keith Hartley commemorates the 80th anniversary of Warhol’s birth and the 20th of his death.
W.W. Norton
Inspired by Nature: Plants: The Building/Botany Connection (Apr., $35) by Alejandro Bahamón et al. explores ways in which natural forms make good architectural models. A Norton Book for Architects and Designers.
Princeton Architectural Press
(dist. by Chronicle)
Graphic Design: The New Basics (May; $35, cloth $50) by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips introduces key concepts of visual language in graphic design.
Rio Nuevo Publishers
Navajo Folk Art (May, $18.95) by Chuck and Jan Rosenak updates the authors’ earlier guide.
Roaring Brook/First Second
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics from Manga to Graphic Novels (June, $34.95) by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden delivers a 15-lesson comics “course.” 50,000 first printing.
Rockport
1,000 Music Graphics: A Compilation of Packaging, Posters, and Other Sound Solutions (May, $40) by Stoltze Design culls graphic works of the past decade from album/CD covers, posters and more.
Scala
(dist. by Antique Collectors’ Club)
The Age of Enchantment: Beardsley, Dulac and Their Contemporaries (May, $45) by Rodney Engen presents the work of turn-of-the-20th-century illustrators of fantasy themes.
Steidl
(dist. by D.A.P.)
Andy Warhol (Apr., $50), edited by Andy Warhol et al., is a facsimile edition of the Swedish Moderna Museet’s 1968 Warhol exhibition catalogue.
Sterling/Lark
The Curious Collector: A Lively Little Tour of 101 Favorite Collectibles (Mar., $17.95) by Jessie Walker assembles information on a wide variety of objects such as glassware, jewelry and textiles.
Tate Publishing
(dist. by Harry N. Abrams)
The Blake Book (Mar., $29.95) by Martin Myrone and The Duchamp Book (Mar., $29.95) by Gavin Parkinson. These entries in the Tate Essential Artists series study these creators’ works.
Watson-Guptill
The Cartoonist’s Big Book of Drawing Animals (Mar., $21.95) by Christopher Hart. This follow-up to How to Draw Cartoon Animals features a retro drawing style. 50,000 first printing.