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Recent Books in the Arts

Browse books received from publishers in the last three months. Click here to browse books by subject category, both recent and the complete archive from 1998 to the present. For a particular author or title, please use the search function.

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Cindy Sherman. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012. 264 pp.; 153 color ills.; 102 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780870708121)

Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home. Space and Place, vol. 5. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 230 pp.; 99 ills. Paper $39.95 (9780857452337)

Maximum Embodiment: Yoga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955. Honolulu, HI: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2012. 240 pp.; 15 color ills.; 43 b/w ills. Paper $32.00 (9780824835378)

The Weir Family, 1820–1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art. Exh. cat. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2011. 212 pp.; 76 color ills.; 96 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9781611680218)

TransLife: International New Media Art. Beijing, China and Liverpool, UK: National Art Museum of China and Liverpool University Press, 2012. 336 pp.; 150 color ills. Paper $59.95 (9781846317460)

Abt, Jeffrey. American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 536 pp.; 128 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780226001104)

Adams, Patrick, Charles Caldmeyer, and Blair Vaughn-Gruler. International Painting Annual 1. Cincinnati, OH: Manifest Press, 2012. 180 pp.; 156 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (9780983730200)

Adams, Robert. Sea Stories. Exh. cat. Robert Adams: The Places We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011. 124 pp.; 106 ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300180046)

Adams, Robert. This Day: Photographs from Twenty-Five Years, The Northwest Coast. Exh. cat. Robert Adams: The Places We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011. 106 pp.; 68 ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300180053)

Adler, Kathleen. A Time and a Place: "Near Sydenham Hill" by Camille Pissarro. Kimbell Masterpiece Series. Forth Worth, TX: Kimbell Museum of Art, 2011. 86 pp.; 58 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Paper $16.95 (9780300175776)

Agee, William C., Irving Sandler, and Karen Wilkin. American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927–1942. Exh. cat. New Haven and Andover, MA: Yale University Press and Addison Gallery of American Art, 2011. 256 pp.; 123 color ills.; 11 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300121674)

Albrecht, Donald, and Thomas Mellins. The American Style: The Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis. Exh. cat. New York: Monacelli Press, 2011. 224 pp.; 180 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9791580932851)

Ames, Kenneth L., ed. American Christmas Cards: 1900–1960. Exh. cat. New York: Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 2011. 320 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9780300176872)

Andrews, Lew. Weston and Charlot: Art and Friendship. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 462 pp. Cloth $65.00 (9780803235137)

Archer, Michael. Jeff Koons: One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank. One Work series. London: Afterall Books, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, 2012. 106 pp.; 22 color ills. Paper £9.95 (9781846380792)

Aristides, Juliette. Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2011. 208 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $29.00 (9780823006595)

Ater, Renée. Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 214 pp. Cloth $49.95 (9780520262126)

Auther, Elissa, and Adam Lerner, eds. West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977. Exh. cat. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 448 pp.; 92 color ills. Paper $39.95 (9780816677269 )

Avery-Quash, Susanna, and Julie Sheldon. Art for the Nation: The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World. Exh. cat. London: National Gallery Company, 2011. 304 pp.; 28 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781857095074)

Baade, Carrie Ann, and Nancy E. Hightower. Cute and Creepy. Exh. cat. Tallahassee: Museum of FIne Arts, Florida State University, 2012. 68 pp.; 106 color ills. Paper $19.95 (9781889282244)

Barberie, Peter. Zoe Strauss: 10 Years. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. 270 pp.; 250 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780300179774)

Barter, Judith A., ed. The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012. 160 pp.; 117 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300175745)

Benelli, Francesco. The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 312 pp.; 10 color ills.; 108 b/w ills. Cloth $99.00 (9781107016323)

Bernat Vistarini, Antonio, John T. Cull, and Tamás Sajó, eds. Book of Honors for Empress Maria of Austria: Composed by the College of the Society of Jesus of Madrid on the Occasion of Her Death (1603). Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2011. 288 pp.; 37 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780916101732)

Beyeler, Ernst. A Passion for Art: Interviews by Christophe Mory. Zurich: Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess, 2012. 201 pp.; 24 color ills.; 35 b/w ills. Paper $39.00 (9783858817273)

Bird, Robert, ed. Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Soviet Children's Books and Graphic Arts. Chicago: Joseph Regenstein Library, The University of Chicago, 2011. 48 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $12.00 (9780943056401)

Bishop, Claire, and Marta Dziewanska, eds. 1968–1989: Political Upheaval and Artistic Change. Warsaw, Poland: Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2011. 504 pp.; 278 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9788392404408)

Bloom, Jonathan M., and Shelia S. Blair, eds. And Diverse Are Their Hues: Color in Islamic Art and Culture. The Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art. New Haven, Doha, Qatar, and Richmond, VA: Yale University Press, Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, and Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011. 408 pp.; 265 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780300175721)

Bodart, Diane H. Pouvoirs du portrait sous les Habsbourg d'Espagne. L'Art & l'Essai, vol. 10. Paris: Les éditions du CTHS, 2012. 590 pp.; 32 color ills.; 72 b/w ills. Paper €46.00 (9782735507566)

Bohrer, Frederick N. Photography and Archaeology. Exposures series. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 192 pp.; 50 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9781861898708)

Bonaventura, Paul, and Andrew Jones, eds. Sculpture and Archaeology. Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 238 pp.; 57 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754658313)

Braddock, Jeremy. Collecting as Modernist Practice. Hopkins Studies in Modernism Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 336 pp.; 26 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9781421403649)

Brintnall, Kent L. Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 256 pp.; 12 b/w ills. Paper $32.50 (9780226074702)

Broglio, Ron. Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art. Posthumanities, Vol. 17 Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 176 pp.; 8 color ills.; 24 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816672974)

Bullock, Margaret E., Christina S. Henderson, and David F. Martin. A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer. Exh. cat. Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Art Museum, 2011. 144 pp.; 200 ills. Paper $19.95 (9780924335327)

Burgard, Timothy Anglin, ed. Matter and Spirit: Stephen De Staebler. Exh. cat. Berkeley and San Francisco: University of California Press and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2012. 240 pp.; 100 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $34.96 (9780520272316)

Busquets, Joan, ed. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2011. 86 pp.; 45 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $19.95 (9781934510315)

Campt, Tina M. Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 256 pp.; 128 ills. Cloth $89.95 (9780822350569)

Carville, Justin. Photography and Ireland. Exposures series. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 192 pp.; 55 color ills.; 45 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9781861898715)

Cassidy, Victor M. Sculptors at Work: Interviews About the Creative Process. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2011. 235 pp.; 15 color ills.; 90 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780786463497)

Causey, Faya. Amber and the Ancient World. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. 144 pp.; 63 color ills. Cloth $25.00 (9781606060827)

Chaix, Valérie. Les églises romanes de Normandie: Formes et fonctions. Paris: Picard, 2011. 360 pp.; 84 color ills.; 280 b/w ills. Paper $93.93 (9782708409132)

Chapman, James. British Comics: A Cultural History. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 320 pp.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9781861898555)

Chaudhary, Zahid R. Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 272 pp.; 13 color ills.; 74 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (9780816677498)

Cherix, Christophe. Print/Out: 20 Years in Print. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012. 236 pp.; 585 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780870708251)

Ciclitira, Serenella, ed. Korean Eye: Contemporary Korean Art. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2010. 390 pp. Paper $60.00 (9788857204673)

Clarke, David. Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. 116 pp.; 116 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9789888083060)

Complo McNutt, Jennifer, and Ashley Holland, eds. We Are Here: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2011. Indianapolis, IN: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, 2011. 120 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $26.95 (9780295991795)

Contadini, Anna. A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Na‘t al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū‘ Tradition. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012. 210 pp.; 86 color ills. Cloth $142.00 (9789004201002)

Cooke, Lynne, ed. Agnes Martin. New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2011. 268 pp.; 78 color ills.; 27 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780300151053)

Coyle, Heather Campbell, ed. Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 192 pp.; 129 color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780977164431)

Cunningham, Joseph, and Bruce Barnes. The Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmerman. New Haven and New York: Yale University Press and American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, 2012. 400 pp.; 517 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300181142)

Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie, ed. Gabriel von Max. Exh. cat. Seattle, WA: Frye Art Museum, 2012. 128 pp.; 86 color ills.; 11 b/w ills. Cloth $30.00 (9780295991467)

Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie, and Doug Nufer. Isaac Layman: Paradise. Seattle, WA: Frye Art Museum, 2012. 80 pp.; 37 color ills. Cloth $28.00 (9780295991856)

Davis, Keith F., and Jane L. Aspinwall. Timothy H. O'Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs. Exh. cat. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2011. 260 pp.; 345 ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300179842)

Delson, Susan, ed. Ai WeiWei: Circle of Animals. Exh. cat. New York: Prestel and AW Asia, 2011. 220 pp.; 165 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9783791346366)

Deutsche, Rosalyn. Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 18 pp.; 38 ills. Paper $18.00 (9780231152792)

Distel, Hebert. The Museum of Drawer: 1970–1977. Munich, Germany: Verlag Schleidegger and Spiess, 2012. 184 pp.; 533 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9783858813336)

Dziewanska, Marta, ed. Ion Grigorescu: In the Body of the Victim. Warsaw, Poland: Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2011. 312 pp.; 20 color ills.; 177 b/w ills. Paper $29.00 (9788392404415)

Earenfight, Phillip J., ed. Picasso and the Circus: Fin-de-Siecle Paris and the Suite de Saltimbanques. Carlisle, PA: Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, 2011. 72 pp.; 83 color ills. Paper $19.95 (9780982615621)

Easton, Elizabeth W., ed. Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard. Exh. cat. Amsterdam, Washington, D.C., and Indianapolis, IN: Van Gogh Museum, Phillips Collection, and Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2011. 248 pp.; 285 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300172362)

Eckmann, Sabine. Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany. Exh. cat. St. Louis, MO: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2012. 72 pp.; 20 color ills. Cloth $30.00 (9780936316345)

Ekhtiar, Maryam D., Priscilla P. Soucek, Sheila R. Canby, and Navina Najat Haidar. Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 448 pp.; 377 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300175851)

Elderfield, John. de Kooning: A Retrospective. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012. 504 pp.; 628 ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780870707988)

Elms, Anthony, and Steve Reinke, eds. Blast Counterblast. Toronto, Ontario and Chicago: Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Art and WhiteWalls, 2012. 192 pp.; 7 ills. Paper $24.00 (9781926627175)

Emerling, Jae. Photography: History and Theory. New York: Routledge, 2012. 274 pp. Cloth $130.00 (9780415778558)

Farbaky, Péter, and Louis A. Waldman, eds. Italy and Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Early Renaissance. Villa I Tatti Series. Cambridge, MA: Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2011. 772 pp.; 152 color ills.; 107 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780674063464)

Farrell, Jennifer. Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012. 372 pp.; 195 color ills.; 13 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300153026)

Fields, Jill, ed. Entering the Picture: Judy Chicago, The Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists. New Directions in American History. New York: Routledge, 2011. 345 pp.; 38 ills. Paper $42.95 (9780415887694)

Fisher, Celia. The Golden Age of Flowers: Botanical Illustration in the Age of Discovery 1600–1800. London: British Library, 2011. 144 pp.; 100 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780712358200)

Fort, Ilene Susan, Tere Arcq, and Terri Geis. In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Exh. cat. New York and Los Angeles: DelMonico Books and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012. 256 pp.; 254 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9783791351414)

Francis, Jacqueline. Making Race: Modernism and "Racial Art" in America. A McLellan Book. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. 256 pp.; 12 color ills.; 47 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780295991450)

Fritsch, Lena. The Body as Screen: Japanese Art Photography of the 1990s. Studien Zur Kunstgeschichte Band 192. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 2011. 372 pp.; 40 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Paper $49.80 (9783487146799)

Gamboni, Dario, and Mary Whittall. The Brush and the Pen: Odilon Redon and Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 424 pp.; 94 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780226280554)

Glassman, Hank. The Face of Jizo: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Honolulu, HI: University Of Hawai'i Press, 2012. 304 pp.; 18 color ills.; 64 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780824835811)

Godfrey, Mark. Alighiero e Boetti. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 288 pp.; 70 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300148756)

Goldin, Amy, and Robert Kushner. Art in A Hairshirt: Art Criticism 1964–1978. Lennox, MA: Hard Press Editions, 2011. 220 pp.; 15 color ills. Paper $19.95 (9781555953423)

Green, Christopher, and Jens M. Daehner. Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia in the Presence of the Antique. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 176 pp.; 82 color ills.; 41 b/w ills. Cloth $39.99 (9780892369775)

Guerin, Frances. Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 368 pp.; 16 color ills.; 27 b/w ills. Paper (9780816670079)

Gunckel, Colin, ed. The Oscar Castillo Papers and Photograph Collection. The Chicano Archives, vol. 5. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2012. 208 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (9780895511409)

Harbison, Craig. Jan van Eyck: The Play of Realism. Second Updated and Expanded Edition. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 317 pp.; 49 color ills.; 88 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9781861898203)

Heckert, Virginia. Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fishkin. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. 368 pp.; 294 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781606060810)

Herman, Bernard L., ed. Thorton Dial: Thoughts on Paper. Exh. cat. Chapel Hill, NC: Ackland Art Museum and University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 224 pp.; 86 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780807835296)

Hiesinger, Kathryn Bloom. Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011. 60 pp.; 42 color ills. Paper $18.00 (9780300179828)

Horse Capture, Sr., George P. Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Lebanon, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2011. 216 pp.; 200 ills. Paper (9781611680331)

Inskip, Peter, Stephen Gee, and Constance Clement. Louis I. Kahn and the Yale Center for British Art: A Conservation Plan. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2012. 200 pp.; 212 color ills.; 32 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300171648)

Jackson, David P,. Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet. Exh. cat. Masterworks of Tibetan Painting Series. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2011. 240 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780984519026)

Jakubowska, Agata, ed. Alina Szapocznikow: Awkward Objects. Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2011. 288 pp.; 85 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $29.00 (9788392404460)

Johnston, John, Chan Lai Pik, and Lin Shwu Shin. 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade: Featuring Selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Exh. cat. San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2011. 130 pp.; 103 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9780615471808)

Johung, Jennifer. Replacing Home: From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 232 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816672882)

Jones, Kellie, ed. Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980. Exh. cat. Los Angeles and New York: Hammer Museum and Prestel, 2012. 352 pp.; 285 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9783791351360)

Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way." Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012. 360 pp.; 250 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780262299862)

Karlstrom, Paul J. Peter Selz: Sketches of a Life in Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 321 pp.; 27 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780520269354)

Katzew, Ilona, ed. Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011. 320 pp.; 220 color ills. Cloth $70.00 (9780300176643)

Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi. Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 232 pp.; 18 b/w ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822349228)

Kemp, Martin. Leonardo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 20 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Paper $17.95 (9780199583355)

Kenny, Peter M., Michael K. Brown, Frances F. Bretter, and Matthew A. Thurlow. Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. 312 pp.; 350 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300155112)

Kinkel, Marianne. Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 292 pp.; 1 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780252036248)

Klein, Mason, and Catherine Evans. The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936–1951. Exh. cat. New Haven, New York, and Columbus, OH: Yale University Press, Jewish Museum, New York, and Columbus Museum of Art, 2011. 248 pp.; 226 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300146875)

Krauss, Rosalind E. Under Blue Cup. An October Book. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 152 pp.; 60 color ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780262016131)

Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. Artists' Art in the Renaissance. London: Pindar Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 86 ills. Cloth £75.00 (1904597432)

Lazaridou, Anastasia, ed. Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd–7th Century AD. Exh. cat. New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2012. 192 pp.; 200 ills. Paper $30.00 (9780981966625)

Leet, Sri-Kartini, ed. Reading Photography: A Sourcebook of Critical Texts 1921–2000. Burlington, VT: Lund Humphries, 2012. 408 pp.; 12 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $250.00 (9780853319764)

Lenain, Thierry. Art Forgery: The History of a Modern Obsession. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 384 pp.; 55 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9781861898500)

Leone, Stephanie C., ed. The Pamphilj and the Arts: Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome. Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2011. 200 pp.; 15 color ills.; 101 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9781892850171)

Levine, Cary. Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels. Exh. cat. Purchase, New York and New York: Neuberger Museum of Art and Prestel, 2011. 128 pp.; 80 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9783791346373)

Lincoln, Louise, ed. Re: Chicago. Exh. cat. Chicago: DePaul Art Museum, 2012. 86 pp.; 41 color ills. Paper $30.00 (9780978907433)

Long, Pamela O. Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400–1600. The OSU Press HorningVisiting Scholars Publications Series Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2011. 208 pp.; Few b/w ills. Paper $22.95 (9780870716096)

Lyon, Christopher. Couples in Art. New York: DelMonico Books, 2011. 160 pp.; 160 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9783791350066)

Maak, Niklas. Le Corbusier: The Architect on the Beach. Munich, Germany: Hirmer Verlag, 2011. 208 pp.; 72 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9783777439914)

Majer, Michele, ed. Staging Fashion, 1880–1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke. Exh. cat. New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2012. 208 pp.; 168 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9780300181135)

Malone, Meredith. Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation. Exh. cat. St. Louis, MO: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2012. 48 pp.; 27 color ills. Paper $10.00 (9780936316338)

Mansfield, Elizabeth C. The Perfect Foil: François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 320 pp.; 24 color ills.; 74 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780816675814)

Marcoci, Roxana, and Terry Eagleton. Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012. 192 pp.; 257 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780870708114)

Marley, Anna O., ed. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit. A George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies. Berkeley, CA and Philadelphia: University of California Press and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2012. 304 pp.; 106 color ills.; 107 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780520270756)

Marshall, Christopher R., ed. Sculpture and the Museum. Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011. 286 pp.; 63 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9781409409106)

Masi, Antonio, and Joan Marans Dim. New York's Golden Age of Bridges. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. 132 pp.; 56 color ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780823240654)

Massen, Michael. The Artist's Guide to Drawing the Clothed Figure. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2012. 224 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780823001194)

Massumi, Brian. Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts. Technologies of Lived Abstraction series. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 220 pp.; 5 ills. Cloth $30.00 (9780262134910 )

Matilsky, Barbara. Lesley Dill's Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan. Exh. cat. Bellingham, WA: Whatcom Museum, 2011. 48 pp.; 30 color ills. Paper $20.00 (9780295991566)

May, Jill P., and Robert E. May. Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 288 pp.; 8 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780252036262)

McCormick, Melissa. Elegant Perfection: Masterpieces of Courtly and Religious Art from the Tokyo National Museum. Exh. cat. Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2012. 128 pp.; 38 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300175936)

McGrew, Rebecca, and Glenn Phillips, eds. It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969–1973. Exh. cat. Claremont, CA: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2012. 381 pp. Paper $49.95 (9780981895581)

McLean, Ian, ed. How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writing on Aboriginal Contemporary Art. Sydney, Australia: Power Publications, 2011. 360 pp.; 59 color ills. Paper $49.95 (9780909952372)

Messinger, Lisa Mintz, ed. Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 360 pp.; 785 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300175882)

Meyer, Richard, ed. Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles. Exh. cat. New York and Los Angeles: Skira Rizzoli and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2012. 143 pp. Cloth $45.00 (9780847837625)

Meyers, Amy R. W., ed. Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740–1840. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 432 pp.; 325 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300111040)

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. The Right to Look: A Counter History of Visuality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 408 pp.; 11 color ills.; 64 b/w ills. Paper $26.95 (9780822349181)

Molinski, Chris, ed. Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave. Exh. cat. Chicago: WhiteWalls, 2011. 163 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $30.00 (9780945323228)

Mormando, Franco. Bernini: His Life and His Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011. 456 pp.; 43 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780226538525)

Naifeh, Steven, and Gregory White Smith. Van Gogh: The Life. New York: Random House, 2011. 976 pp. Cloth $40.00 (9780375507489)

Nair, Parvati. A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 376 pp.; 21 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780822350484)

Najat Haidar, Navina, and Marika Sardar, eds. Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323–1687. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 336 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300175875)

Neils, Jenifer. Women in the Ancient World. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 216 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $25.00 (9781606060919)

Neri, Janice. The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 272 pp.; 82 b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (9780816667659)

Neslehová, Mahulena. Jan Koblasa: Intaglio Prints. Prague: Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2011. 264 pp.; 40 color ills.; 473 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9788024618111)

Nilsen, Micheline. Architecture in Nineteenth–Century Photographs : Essays on Reading a Collection. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 216 pp.; 43 b/w ills. Cloth $104.95 (9781409409045)

Noon, Patrick. Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Drawings. London: Paul Mellon Centre for Sudies in British Art, 2011. 224 pp.; 285 color ills.; 110 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780300170450)

Olonetzky, Nadine, and Martin Jaeggi. Cécile Wick: Colored Waters. Munich, Germany: Verlag Scheidegger and Speiss, 2012. 180 pp.; 160 color ills. Paper $99.00 (9783858813305)

Ozment, Steven. The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther and the Making of the Reformation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 344 pp.; 11 color ills.; 77 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780300169850)

Pascale, Mark. Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection. Exh. cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2011. 160 pp.; 127 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780300175738)

Patten, Mary. Revolution as an Eternal Dream: the Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective. Chicago: Half Letter Press, 2011. 84 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $13.00 (9780981802312)

Perry, Gill, Joseph Roach, and Shearer West. The First Actresses: From Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. Exh. cat. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2011. 160 pp.; 120 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780472118274)

Phillips, Ruth B. Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums. McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History, vol. 6. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. 329 pp.; 110.00 color ills. Paper $39.95 (9780773539068)

Phipps, Elena. Looking at Textiles: A Guide to Technical Terms. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. 112 pp.; 78 color ills.; 2 b/w ills. Paper $18.95 (9781606060803)

Postle, Martin, ed. Johan Soffany RA: Society Observed. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2011. 320 pp.; 225 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300176049)

Prinzhorn, Hans. The Art of Insanity: An Analysis of Ten Schizophrenic Artists. Washington D.C.: Solar Books, 2011. 160 pp.; 93 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780983248002)

Purdy, Daniel. On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought. Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 328 pp. Paper $35.00 (9780801476761)

Rabb, Theodore. The Artist and The Warrior: Military History Through the Eyes of the Masters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 288 pp.; 40 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300126372)

Rathbone, Eliza, and Elizabeth Steele. Degas's Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 2012. 144 pp.; 50 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300176322)

Ravenal, John B. Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Duke/Shanghai/Virginia, 1999–2011. Exh. cat. Richmond, VA and Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2011. 144 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780917046964 )

Reinke, Steve. The Shimmering Beast. Chicago: WhiteWalls and Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012. 120 pp. Paper $19.95 (9780945323211)

Ribeiro, Aileen. Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 256 pp.; 100 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300124866)

Richardson, Todd M. Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 268 pp.; 8 color ills.; 86 b/w ills. Cloth $119.95 (9780754668169)

Rieser, Martin, ed. The Mobile Audience: Media Art and Mobile Technologies. Architecture Technology Culture vol. 5. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 481 pp. Cloth $135.00 (9789042031272)

Roblin, Kimberly, Amanda Lett, Eric Singleton, and Randy Ramer. Forging a Nation: The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum. Exh. cat. Tulsa, OK: Gilcrease Museum, 2011. 250 pp.; 300 ills. Paper $24.95 (9780972565783)

Rodner, William S. Edwardian London through Japanese Eyes: The Art and Writings of Yoshio Markino, 1897–1915. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012. 240 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $127.00 (9789004220393)

Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 448 pp.; 25 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300169140)

Rosenfield, John M. Portraits of Chōgen: The Transformation of Buddhist Art in Early Medieval Japan. Japanese Visual Culture Series, vol. 1. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012. 296 pp.; 197 ills. Cloth $132.00 (9789004168640)

Russell, Charles. Groundwaters: A Century of Self-Taught and Outsider Artists. New York: Prestel, 2011. 240 pp.; 180 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9783791344904)

Russell, Karen Kramer, ed. Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art. Exh. cat. New Haven and Salem, MA: Yale University Press and Peabody Essex Museum, 2012. 248 pp.; 144 color ills.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300177329)

Ryan, Zoë, ed. Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2011. 192 pp.; 140 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300167047)

Schimmel, Paul, and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, eds. Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981. Exh. cat. Los Angeles and New York: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and DelMonic Prestal, 2012. 321 pp.; 185 color ills.; 236 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9783791351391)

Sherman, Daniel J. French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945–1975. Chicago: University of Chicagp Press and University of Chicagp Press, 2011. 312 pp.; 10 color ills.; 51 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780226752693)

Silverman, Peter, and Catherine Whitney. Leonardo's Lost Princess: One Man's Quest to Authenticate an Unknown Portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011. 260 pp. Cloth $25.95 (9780470936405)

Simons, Patricia. The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History. Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories, vol. 17. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 344 pp.; 61 b/w ills. Cloth $99.00 (9781107004917)

Siry, Joseph M. Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 736 pp.; 10 color ills.; 295 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780226761404)

Sonnabend, Martin, Jon Whiteley, and Christian Ruemelin. Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape. Exh. cat. Oxford, UK: Ashmolean Museum, 2011. 200 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $80.00 (9781848220928)

Soueif, Ahdaf, ed. Reflections on Islamic Art. Doha, Qatar: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2011. 255 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth £35.00 (9789992142608)

Sparks, Barbara. Far Flung Places: The Photography of Barbara Sparks. Denver, CO: Rose Fredrick Fine Art Publishing, 2011. 104 pp.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780983368533)

Srp, Karel, Lenka Bydžovská, Alison de Lima Greene, and Jan Mergl. New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection. Exh. cat. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2011. 320 pp.; 357 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300169966)

Stern, Robert A.M. Tradition and Invention in Architecture: Conversations and Essays. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 208 pp.; 123 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780300181159)

Syson, Luke. Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. Exh. cat. London: National Gallery Company, 2011. 320 pp.; 255 color ills.; 11 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781857094916)

Tate, Carolyn E. Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture: The Unborn, Women, and Creation. The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and the Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012. 359 pp.; 223 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780292728523)

Tàpies, Antoni, and Josep Miquel Sobrer. Antoni Tàpies: Collected Essays. Complete Writings, Volume II. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011. 600 pp.; 6 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780253355034 )

Teramoto, John, Stephen Addiss, and David Rosand. Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yusaku. Indianapolis and Seattle: Indianapolis Museum of Art and University of Washington Press, 2011. 144 pp.; 90 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9780295991597)

Tigerman, Stanley, and Emmanuel Petit. Schlepping Through Ambivalence: Essays on an American Architectural Condition. New Haven: Yale University Press and Yale School of Architecture, 2011. 192 pp.; 16 color ills.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300175417)

Toynton, Evelyn. Jackson Pollock. Icons of America series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 160 pp.; 6 b/w ills. Cloth $26.00 (9780300163254)

Trimble, Jennifer. Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture. Greek Cuture in the Roman World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 498 pp.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780521825153)

Tummers, Anna. The Eye of the Connoisseur: Authenticating Paintings by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 400 pp.; 165 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781606060841)

Van Oosten, Thea. PUR Facts: Conservation of Polyurethane Foam in Art and Design. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011. 160 pp.; 50 color ills. Paper $39.00 (9789089642103)

von Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa, Irene Gammel, and Suzanne Zelazo. Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. MIT Press, 2011. 309 pp.; 21 color ills.; 31 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780262016223)

Westheider, Ortrud, and Michael Philipp, eds. Gerhard Richter: Images of an Era. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2011. 216 pp.; 167 color ills.; 55 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (9783777450018)

Westheider, Ortrud, and Michael Philipp, eds. Turner and the Elements. Exh. cat. Munich, Germany: Hirmer Publishers, 2012. 256 pp.; 150 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9783777440019)

Weyl Carr, Annemarie, ed. Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from The Menil Collection. Exh. cat. Houston: Menil Collection, 2011. 168 pp.; 85 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300169683)

White, Kit. 101 Things To Learn in Art School. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. 224 pp.; 101 b/w ills. Cloth $14.95 (9780262016216)

Whyte, Mary. Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor. Watson-Guptill, 2011. 160 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $24.99 (9780823026739)

Wieseman, Marjorie E., Wayne E. Franits, and H. Perry Chapman. Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence. Exh. cat. Cambridge, UK: Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, 2011. 224 pp.; 60 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780300178999)

Wilson, Andrew. Richard Hamilton: Swingeing London 67 (f). One Work series. London: Afterall Books, 2012. 120 pp.; 32 color ills. Paper $16.00 (9781846380778 )

Witkovsky, Matthew S., ed. Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977. Exh. cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012. 264 pp.; 115 color ills.; 187 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300159714)

Wolff, Justin. Thomas Hart Benton: A Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 416 pp.; 16 color ills. Paper $19.99 (9780374199876)

Wolke, Jay. Architecture of Resignation: Photographs from the Mezzogiorno. Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2011. 80 pp.; 43 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781935195139)

Yacavone, Kathrin. Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography. London: Continuum, 2012. 272 pp. Cloth $110.00 (9781441118080)