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Artist Books

Artist Books

  • Museum Exclusive
    BOOM: Art & Design in the 1940s BOOM: Art & Design in the 1940s

    BOOM: Art & Design in the 1940s

    $25.00
    Tracing the surge in creativity and transformations in culture and the arts during one of history’s most tumultuous decades Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s looks at the complex shifts in technology and the arts, including music, film, and fashion,...
    $25.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés (paperback) Philadelphia Museum of Art Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés (paperback)

    Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés (paperback)

    $35.00
    Michael R. Taylor (Author) with essays by Andrew Lins, Melissa S. Meighan, and Beth A. Price, Ken Sutherland, Scott Homolka, and Elena Torok In his early thirties, Marcel Duchamp convinced everyone that he had abandoned making art in favor of playing...
    $35.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art The Essential Duchamp Philadelphia Museum of Art The Essential Duchamp

    The Essential Duchamp

    $29.95
    Matthew Affron (Author) With contributions by Cécile Debray, Alexander Kauffman, Michael R. Taylor, and John Vick This book offers an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most enigmatic artists, Marcel...
    $29.95
  • Souvenirs: From a Memoir - Ekphrasis Series Souvenirs: From a Memoir - Ekphrasis Series

    Souvenirs: From a Memoir - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    A selection from the memoir of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth-century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art history In her memoir, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun offers a candid and thoroughly...
    $15.00
  • Diego Rivera's America Diego Rivera's America

    Diego Rivera's America

    $60.00
    Diego Rivera’s America revisits a historical moment when the famed muralist and painter, more than any other artist of his time, helped forge Mexican national identity in visual terms and imagined a shared American future in which unity, rather than...
    $60.00
  • The Process Book The Process Book

    The Process Book

    $35.00
    No longer a catalog, but an intimate window into how and why Nakashima Woodworkers do what Nakashima Woodworkers do. THe Process Book acts a first step in understanding our foundations and identifying what you hope to achieve in working with us. Defined...
    $35.00
  • Isamu Noguchi Isamu Noguchi

    Isamu Noguchi

    $55.00
     This definitive book explores the multidisciplinary career of one of the most experimental and pioneering artists of the 20th century. Encompassing the entirety of Isamu Noguchi’s work in sculpture, ceramics, photography, architecture,...
    $55.00
  • The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick

    The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick

    $65.00
    Widely celebrated as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement, Wharton Esherick is one of the most important furniture designers of the twentieth century. Presenting his preserved hillside house and studio, this book showcases seven decades of...
    $65.00
  • Lee Krasner: Living Color Lee Krasner: Living Color

    Lee Krasner: Living Color

    $35.00
    A richly illustrated monograph on the life and work of Lee Krasner, one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring women artists and a pioneer of abstract expressionism, now available in paperback. In 1984, Lee Krasner (1908–1984) became one of the few...
    $35.00
  • Sue Fuller: Into the Composition Sue Fuller: Into the Composition

    Sue Fuller: Into the Composition

    $35.00
    The first monograph on the overlooked American modernist whose delicate geometric abstractions made brilliant and innovative use of string Balance, motion, suspension and tension form the guiding principles of the work of Sue Fuller (1914–2006), one of...
    $35.00
  • Focal Points: Ad Reinhardt Focal Points: Ad Reinhardt

    Focal Points: Ad Reinhardt

    $24.95
    A scholarly meditation on Reinhardt’s work, bringing together his abstract painting, comics and slide lecture series The second volume of Focal Points takes as its subject the work of American artist Ad Reinhardt (1913–67). An American abstract painter,...
    $24.95
  • Eames: Beautiful Details Eames: Beautiful Details

    Eames: Beautiful Details

    $70.00
    Renowned designers Charles and Ray Eames are amongst the greatest designers of the 20th century. They are, of course, most well known for their groundbreaking and iconic furniture designs, but they also created important, creative, experimental, and...
    $70.00
  • Russel and Mary Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga Russel and Mary Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga

    Russel and Mary Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga

    $60.00
    The story of modernist designers Russel and Mary Wright and their collaboration to transform their Hudson Valley estate, Dragon Rock at Manitoga, into an artistic haven. In the mid-century era of TV dinners and suburban conformity, Russel and Mary...
    $60.00
  • Bertoia: The Metalworker Bertoia: The Metalworker

    Bertoia: The Metalworker

    $95.00
    A celebration of the rich and varied work of Italian-born American artist, designer, and master of metal, Harry Bertoia From chapel altarpieces and bronze fountains, to wire chairs and silver brooches, Harry Bertoia's creative output was varied in the...
    $95.00
  • Lincoln Kirstein's Modern Lincoln Kirstein's Modern

    Lincoln Kirstein's Modern

    $55.00
    Lincoln Kirstein was a polymathic writer, critic, curator and impresario: a key connector and an indefatigable catalyst whose sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ‘40s shaped artists and institutions. Best known for...
    $55.00
  • Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line

    Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line

    $60.00
    A fabulous tribute to the artist whose stylized poster designs defined Art Nouveau's visual language, and whose influence can be seen everywhere from manga to the Grateful Dead This volume reappraises the graphic work of Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) and...
    $60.00
  • Noah Davis Noah Davis

    Noah Davis

    $50.00
    This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community. American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015) believed...
    $50.00
  • Betye Saar: Drifting toward Twilight Betye Saar: Drifting toward Twilight

    Betye Saar: Drifting toward Twilight

    $29.95
    Luminous and tranquil, Saar’s newest installation uses natural objects and materials to take the viewer on a spiritual journey. This volume features the Huntington Library and Museum’s commissioned site-specific installation Drifting toward...
    $29.95
  • Jack, Larger Than Life Jack, Larger Than Life

    Jack, Larger Than Life

    $18.99
    From Longhouse Reserver: Jack, Larger Than Life is an homage to the internationally acclaimed textile designer, author, and collector Jack Lenor Larsen (1927–2020) and a record of a public exhibition held at LongHouse Reserve—Larsen’s...
    $18.99
  • Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal

    Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal

    $150.00
    Josef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and printmaker - are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship...
    $150.00
  • Jackson Pollock: The Early Years: 1934-1947 Jackson Pollock: The Early Years: 1934-1947

    Jackson Pollock: The Early Years: 1934-1947

    $45.00
    Trace the genesis of Jackson Pollock’s work in this intimate portrait of the radical twentieth-century artist through the diverse cultural influences that charted his artistic evolution. Jackson Pollock’s “drip technique” paintings are among the most...
    $45.00
  • French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950 French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950

    French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950

    $55.00
    This newly revised and updated hardback edition is published to coincide with an exhibition touring the USA. In the years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II, the art world, centered in Paris, witnessed remarkable transformations...
    $55.00
  • Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney

    Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney

    $35.00
    First published in 1998, Leeming’s landmark biography of Beauford Delaney returns to print Long out of print, this new edition of David Leeming’s landmark biography of Beauford Delaney (1901–79) features an introduction by Hilton Als...
    $35.00
  • Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

    Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

    $39.95
    A sweeping overview of poetic compositions from the beloved American postwar painter known for her groundbreaking and inventive approach to abstraction. Celebrated among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters, Helen Frankenthaler...
    $39.95
  • El Anatsui: Art and Life El Anatsui: Art and Life

    El Anatsui: Art and Life

    $60.00
    This expanded and revised edition celebrates the work of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui by exploring the artist's life and the trajectory of his remarkable career. El Anatsui: Art and Life by Susan Mullin Vogel is the essential resource on the Ghanaian...
    $60.00
  • El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture

    El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture

    $70.00
    The product of more than 30 years of research, this astounding and authoritative volume reveals the political metaphors underpinning El Anatsui’s magnificent abstract sculpture Authored by two acclaimed scholars, Okwui Enwezor and Chika...
    $70.00
  • Travelling with Vincent - Van Gogh in Drenthe Travelling with Vincent - Van Gogh in Drenthe

    Travelling with Vincent - Van Gogh in Drenthe

    $45.00
    Vincent van Gogh boarded the last train from The Hague to Hoogeveen on Tuesday, September 11, 1883. He stays there for several weeks, then moves to Nieuw-Amsterdam/Veenoord and visits Zweeloo. The landscape makes a deep impression on him. Everywhere...
    $45.00
  • Hans Memling in Bruges Hans Memling in Bruges

    Hans Memling in Bruges

    $49.00
    The Flemish Primitive artist Hans Memling (c. 1435–1494), who played a crucial role in early Netherlandish painting, is inextricably associated with Bruges. Among his most impressive creations are the St John Altarpiece and the St Ursula Shrine, which he...
    $49.00
  • Hokuei: Master of Osaka Kabuki Prints Hokuei: Master of Osaka Kabuki Prints

    Hokuei: Master of Osaka Kabuki Prints

    $65.00
    This is the first book about Hokuei - one of the most intriguing artists ever in kabuki-actor prints Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images, it brings the world of kabuki alive in fascinating detail The book includes a fully illustrated and annotated...
    $65.00
  • Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement

    Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement

    $45.00
    A celebration of the work and ambition of the women who were at the heart of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement is a celebration of the work and ambition of the women who were at the heart of the most influential...
    $45.00
  • Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory

    Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory

    $40.00
    Afterglow brings together the known memorial paintings by Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) for the first time, unveiling how Church returned to the medium of landscape throughout his career to create solace in times of loss. This book presents new...
    $40.00
  • Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu

    Wangechi Mutu

    $54.95
    The first monograph on the work of celebrated and influential Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu Wangechi Mutu's remarkable body of work touches on such issues as sexuality, ecology, politics, and the rhythms and chaos that govern the world. Her...
    $54.95
  • Amy Sherald: The World We Make Amy Sherald: The World We Make

    Amy Sherald: The World We Make

    $55.00
    This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colorful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings. Sherald rose...
    $55.00
  • Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space

    Claudette Johnson: Line, Rhythm, Space

    $49.95
    Tender yet compelling, Johnson's portraits of herself, her friends and her relatives are touchstones of Black figuration. A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson (born 1959) creates large-scale drawings of Black people...
    $49.95
  • Reframing the Black Figure Reframing the Black Figure

    Reframing the Black Figure

    $19.95
    This visual gift book introduces readers to the field of Black figuration by highlighting key works from the National Portrait Gallery exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. The selections included in this brief introduction...
    $19.95
  • Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective

    Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective

    $50.00
    Christina Ramberg (1946–1995) first gained renown for her acrylic-on-board paintings from the 1960s and 1970s that feature stylized fragments of female figures. Often associated with Chicago Imagism, Ramberg’s distinct linear approach was informed by a...
    $50.00
  • Barkley L. Hendricks: Solid! Barkley L. Hendricks: Solid!

    Barkley L. Hendricks: Solid!

    $70.00
    Barkley L. Hendricks is rightly known as one of the foremost American painters of the late 20th century. His six-decade artistic oeuvre encompasses not only portraits but also includes evocative landscapes, hard-edged geometric abstractions, lush...
    $70.00
  • Mapplethorpe Flora Mapplethorpe Flora

    Mapplethorpe Flora

    $100.00
    The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe’s flower photographs in a sophisticated new edition. Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century’s most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting,...
    $100.00
  • Melissa Shook Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973 Melissa Shook Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973

    Melissa Shook Daily Self-Portraits 1972-1973

    $60.00
    Melissa Shook (April 18, 1939 – August 27, 2020) was an American photographer, artist and educator. Her photographs are part of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Invitation Only: Photographs by Barbara Crane, Melissa Shook, and Carol...
    $60.00
  • An Indigenous Present An Indigenous Present

    An Indigenous Present

    $75.00
    This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American  contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects,  writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey  Gibson, a renowned artist of...
    $75.00
  • Berthe Morisot Berthe Morisot

    Berthe Morisot

    $29.95
    Berthe Morisot won over the Impressionists with her talent and became the first woman of the group alongside Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley. Likewise, she was heralded by the greatest writers of her time; in this tribute to her, an anthology...
    $29.95
  • Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise

    Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise

    $60.00
    Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: His Final Months offers a unique and impressive overview of the paintings and drawings that Vincent van Gogh created during the last seventy days of his life. He produced no fewer than seventy-four paintings and over thirty...
    $60.00
  • Japanese Prints the Collection of Vincent van Gogh Japanese Prints the Collection of Vincent van Gogh

    Japanese Prints the Collection of Vincent van Gogh

    $45.00
    One hundred and fifty years ago, Vincent van Gogh fell under the enticing spell of Japanese printmaking while working in Paris. He bought over six hundred Japanese prints and displayed them in his studio as inspiration.Van Gogh admired the prints’...
    $45.00
  • Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning

    Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning

    $45.00
    Exquisite Dreams is the first full account of the art and life of Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012). Rather than only focusing on her well-known surrealist paintings, this book gives equal weight to Tanning’s lesser-known but equally powerful sculptures,...
    $45.00
  • The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989 The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989

    The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989

    $50.00
    Focusing on the work of 33 artists, this volume examines the ways contemporary Korean art reflects the dynamic changes in the country following the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and 1988 Seoul Olympics, when a newly democratic South Korea opened up to the rest...
    $50.00
  • Souls Grown Deep Like Rivers Souls Grown Deep Like Rivers

    Souls Grown Deep Like Rivers

    $35.00
    For generations, Black artists from the American South have forged a unique art tradition. Working in near isolation from established practices, they have created masterpieces in clay, driftwood, roots, soil, and recycled and cast-off objects that...
    $35.00
  • Between Worlds the Art of Bill Traylor Between Worlds the Art of Bill Traylor

    Between Worlds the Art of Bill Traylor

    $85.00
    Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born into slavery on an Alabama plantation, and his experiences spanned multiple...
    $85.00
  •  Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction  Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction

    Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction

    $60.00
    Exploring the art and life of this important American artist whose work bridged the gaps between abstraction, feminism, and Blackness Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction is a fascinating examination of the multifaceted career of artist, activist,...
    $60.00
  • Sonia Delaunay Sonia Delaunay

    Sonia Delaunay

    $30.00
    Sonia Delaunay was a true pioneer of modernist abstraction; breaking with the figurative vocabulary that subordinated color to subject matter, she placed dynamic color interaction at the core of her vision, whether expressed through painting, book...
    $30.00
  • Andrew Wyeth Life and Death Andrew Wyeth Life and Death

    Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death

    $40.00
    Presenting recently rediscovered drawings, Life and Death explores what it means for an artist to picture their own death, in both the context of Wyeth’s late career and contemporary American art. This volume presents for the first time a recently...
    $40.00
  • Barbara Chase-Riboud Malcolm X Steles

    Barbara Chase-Riboud Malcolm X Steles

    $25.00
    Bringing together more than forty works from the United States and Europe, this exhibition examines Barbara Chase-Riboud’s artistic career, focusing primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures. Five works from that series—among them the Museum’s...
    $25.00
  • The Making of Rodin The Making of Rodin

    The Making of Rodin

    $55.00
    Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was a radical sculptor whose unorthodox approach to multiplication, assemblage, industrial production, and serial repetition challenged classical sculptural traditions and provided a definitive break in the history of art...
    $55.00
  • Marcel Duchamp text by Robert Lebel 1959 facsimile Marcel Duchamp text by Robert Lebel 1959 facsimile

    Marcel Duchamp text by Robert Lebel 1959 facsimile

    $125.00
    Marcel Duchamp, the artist’s first legendary monograph and draft catalogue raisonné, was written by art historian and novelist Robert  Lebel and published in French in 1959; later that same year, it was  translated into English by George Heard...
    $125.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Start with a House, Finish with a Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art Start with a House, Finish with a Collection

    Start with a House, Finish with a Collection

    $75.00
    Offers a unique personal perspective on the journey of collecting American art and antiques Start with House, Finish with a Collection is the story of how a couple's use of American art and antiques evolved from furnishing a house into a full-blown...
    $75.00
  • Vincent van Gogh The Complete Paintings Vincent van Gogh The Complete Paintings

    Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

    $50.00
    Meet Vincent van Gogh, one of the most famed tragic figures of 19th‑century art. This lush tome collects all his 871 paintings, alongside writings and essays, charting the life and work of a master who continues to tower over art. Today, the works of...
    $50.00
  •  Eugene Atget: Paris  Eugene Atget: Paris

    Eugene Atget: Paris

    $25.00
    Take an intimate promenade through Paris with some 500 images from Eugène Atget. Down main streets and side streets, through courtyards, arcades, and the city’s 20 arrondissements, we find a unique portrait of a beloved city and the making...
    $25.00
  •  Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists  Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists

    Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists

    $39.95
    This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the cutting edge of contemporary art. As mission-driven collectors, Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have...
    $39.95
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Marcel Duchamp Philadelphia Museum of Art Marcel Duchamp

    Marcel Duchamp

    $60.00
    Editor: Anne D'Harnoncourt Published in connection with the 1973 retrospective exhibition "Marcel Duchamp,"  co-curated by Anne d'Harnoncourt of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and  Kynaston McShine of The Museum of Modern Art. This...
    $60.00
  • Cy Twombly: Fifty Days At Iliam Cy Twombly: Fifty Days At Iliam

    Cy Twombly: Fifty Days At Iliam

    $45.00
    Edited by Carlos Basualdo with essays by Carlos Basualdo, Olena Chervonik, Richard Fletcher, Emily Greenwood, and Nicola Del Roscio This revelatory publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of Cy Twombly’s masterpiece Fifty Days...
    $45.00