ART & ANTIQUES
Bill Viola: Love/Death— The Tristan Project Kira Perov 27th June, hb, £35, 9780300270174 The story of how a trinity of California-based creatives pushed the boundaries to reimagine a radical “Tristan und Isolde” opera for our times.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tree and Serpent John Guy 13th June, hb, £50, 9781588396938 With new photography of extraordinarily rare works of art, this pioneering study features discoveries and research essential to understanding the origins and meaning of Buddhist artistic traditions.
Oceania Maia Nuku 6th May, hb, £40, 9781588397287 Essential resource on the diverse nations and communities of the Pacific Islands offers a fresh look at Oceanic art that incor- porates new scholarship and perspectives from Indigenous voices.
Beyond the Light Freyda Spira (ed), Stephanie Schrader (ed), Thomas Lederballe (ed), Karina Lykke Grand (ed), Gry Hedin (ed) 14th February, hb, £40, 9781588397331 Placing artists at the centre of 19th-century Demark’s dramatic cultural, political and phil- osophical transformation, this publication explores their persistent national pride in a time of turmoil.
Lauren Halsey: The Roof Garden Commission Abraham Thomas, Lauren Halsey, Douglas Kearney 28th March, pb, £7.95, 9781588397492 Halsey’s diverse artistic influences, including Afrofuturism, ancient Egyptian iconography and the architecture and community in her native Los Angeles.
Juan De Pareja David Pullins, Vanessa K Valdes, Luis Mendez Rodriguez, Erin Kathleen Rowe 28th February, hb, £40, 9781588397560 Study of a freedman painter that recognises the labour of enslaved artists and artisans in 17th-century Spain.
Van Gogh’s Cypresses Susan Alyson Stein,
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Charlotte Hale, Silvia Centeno, Alison Hokanson, Marina Kliger 25th April, hb, £40, 9781588397591 First book to study the artist’s fascination with the trees that feature in some of his most iconic pictures.
Cecily Brown Ian Alteveer, Adam Eaker 14th March, hb, £35, 9781588397614 Intimate survey of Brown’s paintings, drawings and prints provides a meditation on the inter- twined themes of still life, memento mori and vani- tas in her work.
MIT Press
Cheyney Thompson: Passages Christian Schaernack, Ben Caton (tr) 23rd May, hb, £50, 9780262047272 One of the first book- length publications on a contemporary artist whose work is known for its radically forward- looking intellectualism.
Postsensual Aesthetics James Voorhies 7th February, hb, £21, 9780262047609 Contemporary art exhibi- tions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modelling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics.
Sol Lewitts Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre Rye Dag Holmboe 25th April, hb, £45, 9780262047623 Detailed look at American artist’s masterpiece of conceptual art, drawn on the walls of a medieval tower in Italy.
The Culture of the Case Frederic J Schwartz 9th May, hb, £41, 9780262047708 How artists in 20th-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push forward sexualities, scandals and crimes that were otherwise concealed.
Hugh Hayden Sarah J Montross 14th March, hb, £41, 9780262047999 First-ever monograph on American artist whose sculptures are known for their engagement with notions of class, race and cultural assimilation.
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
Karin Ohlenschlager, Peter Weibel 7th February, hb, £50, 9780262048156 Captivating look at 30 years of work by the Austrian-French artist duo.
Martin Kippenberger Chris Reitz 9th May, hb, £41, 9780262545013 Illuminating study of the work of the artist whose art expressed the enthusiasms and frustrations of the West German middle class.
Allison Katz: Artery Sam Thorne, Mark Clark 14th March, pb, £41, 9780262545280 Richly illustrated volume— and the first exhibition catalogue—of Katz whose multilayered paintings, ceramics and posters are both embodied and enigmatic.
Fragments of Repair Kader Attia (ed) 6th June, pb, £17.99, 9780262545327 Activist handbook guided by Attia’s proposition of decolonial repair with essays from diverse global contributors.
Monacelli
Gaetano Pesce Glenn Adamson 15th May, hb, £69.95, 9781580935999 Widely considered one of the most important, and elusive, creative figures of the last half century who bridged numerous key art and design movements, while never belonging to any of them.
The Wide World of Graffiti Alan Ket 15th May, hb, £39.95, 9781580936019 Guide to the art, artists and culture of graffiti from the 1970s to today, as told by the taggers themselves.
Donna Dennis Helaine Posner 15th April, hb, £44.95, 9781580936026 The first monograph on the architectural sculptor and installation artist and long-time collaborator with the NY School poets.
Luciano Fabro Margit Rowell 15th May, hb, £54.95, 9781580936118 Definitive monograph on the work of sculptor, installation artist and Arte Povera pioneer.
Lino Tagliapietra Glenn Adamson,
Henry Adams 1st February, hb, £39.95, 9781580936156 Described as the world’s greatest glassblower who revolutionised glass as a discipline.
Motorbooks
Kawaii Doggies Olive Yong 4th April, pb, £14.99, 9780760379851 Follow-up and companion to Kawaii Kitties shows step by step how to draw all your favorite breeds.
Munch
Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth Jay A Clarke 23rd May, hb, £35, 9780300270501 Thought-provoking volume on the artist’s often neglected pictures of nature explores his landscapes, seascapes and existential environ- ments in the light of his own time and ours.
Museum of Modern Art
Signals: How Video Transformed the World Michelle Kuo (ed), Stuart Comer (ed), Erika Balsom (ed), Aria Dean (ed), David Joselit (ed) et al 30th March, pb, £38, 9781633451230 Aims to renew and revise our understanding of art and video, posing video not as a traditional medium but as a perva- sive and fluid media network.
The Patricia Phelps De Cisneros Gift in Dialogue Ines Katzenstein 27th April, hb, £40, 9781633451384 Published in conjunc- tion with an exhibition at the New York museum, this catalogue presents contemporary Latin American artists who draw on history to create new works.
Georgia O’Keeffe Samantha Friedman, Laura Neufeld 6th April, hb, £45, 9781633451476 Focuses on O’Keeffe’s drawings made in char- coal, watercolour, pastel and graphite, revealing a lesser-known side of the artist and foregrounding her modern process.
National Galleries of Scotland
Grayson Perry Grayson Perry, Victoria
Coren Mitchell, Patrick Elliott 21st July, Book, £27.99, 9781911054627 Many of Perry’s best-loved works feature alongside essays by the artist and curator Elliott.
National Gallery Company
Saint Francis of Assisi Gabriele Finaldi 9th May, hb, £25, 9781857096934 Exploration of the imagery and artistic tradition surrounding one of history’s most revered figures.
The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance Emma Capron, Martin Clayton, Charlotte Wytema 14th March, pb, £16.99, 9781857096941 Critical reflection on Renaissance attitudes towards women, age and facial difference.
After Impressionism MaryAnne Stevens, Maria Alambritis, Julien Domercq, Charlotte de Mille, John Milner et al 25th April, hb, £40, 9781857096958 Through the 1880s the very essence of repre- sentation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated.
National Gallery Washington
Canova: Sketching in Clay Emerson Bowyer, CD Dickerson III 6th May, hb, £50, 9780300269758 First book-length exami- nation of the clay models and creative process of the pre-eminent neoclas- sical sculptor.
National Portrait Gallery
The Collection Rab MacGibbon (ed), Nicholas Cullinan (ed) 13th April, pb, £12.95, 9781855145733 Introduces key people who have shaped the history of Britain, its culture and identity.
NGW-Stud Hist Art
Beauty Born of Struggle Jeffrey C Stewart (ed) 28th February, hb, £55, 9780300267105 Collection of illustrated essays highlights the works of influential Black artists from Washington
from the 1920s to the present.
Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World Steven Nelson (ed), Huey Copeland (ed) 11th April, pb, £45, 9780300269772 Illustrated discourses broaden our understanding of Modernism by centring Black artists and experiences.
NMS Enterprises
Scottish Furniture Stephen Jackson 22nd June, hb, £40, 9781910682487 Scholarly, narrative account of furniture- making in Scotland from the 16th century to the 20th disseminates much new research and special- ist knowledge.
Hamilton Palace Godfrey Evans 22nd June, hb, £60, 9781910682494 Principal curator’s lavishly illustrated book examines the enormous palace of the premier peers of Scotland and the thousands of outstanding works of art acquired by 12 dukes over 250 years.
Officina Libraria
Comparative Hell Adriana Proser (ed) 13th February, hb, £55, 9788833671055 The first comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue presenting traditions of hell imagery and their relationship to the development of ancient and contemporary visual materials in Asia.
Oro Editions
Life in Charcoal Edgar Jerins 12th June, hb, £39.95, 9781957183374 Forged in the crucible of family tragedy, Jerins’ monumental charcoal drawings are a towering achievement of contem- porary American art.
Paul Mellon Centre
The Rainbow’s Gravity Kirsty S Dootson 9th May, hb, £45, 9781913107369 Dazzling history of chro- matic media technologies, from Victorian printing to colour television, reveals how Britain modernised colour and how colour, in turn, modernised Britain.
Landscape Design and Revolution in
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