To obtain discounts on selected books, enter promotional code YX259 into the space provided on the shopping cart. Discounts will be computed on the shopping cart once the code is entered.

Discounts are valid only in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

This stunning book provides a fascinating look at the full range of Jeff Koons’s career and explores for the first time his rise in Chicago in the 1970s.

The first comprehensive publication of writings by Jack Tworkov, a noted painter, teacher, and author of the Abstract Expressionist period. 

Ivan Brunetti presents an exciting new anthology focusing on some of the most original comic artists working today. Featuring creations by Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, and dozens of other prominent or emerging artists, the book shows how today’s cartoonists are expanding and transforming the genre.

This book documents and discusses Zoe Leonard’s installation of thousands of postcard images dating from the 1900s through the 1950s of tourist destination Niagara Falls.

This book examines the work of thirty-three artists––including Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, José Bedia, Rebecca Belmore, and James Lee Byars––who began using ritualistic practices during the 1970s and 1980s as a way of reinterpreting aspects of their cultural heritage. Younger artists such as Tania Bruguera and Michael Joo are shown to have drawn upon the iconograp...

This major new retrospective of the innovative career of William Kentridge features an unprecedented DVD of his film work that includes previously unseen film clips and animations.

Featuring an interview with the artist, this book focuses on two projects by Max Neuhaus to consider his singular impact in establishing sound as a medium in contemporary art.

This anthology provides a new discourse on four decades of painting by Agnes Martin, one of the 20th century’s most influential artists.

A look at the institutional and private efforts to collect, document, and preserve African American art in Houston, Texas.

Featuring extensive previously unpublished correspondence, this book examines the significant contributions of John and Dominique de Menil to art, architecture, and the civil and human rights movements.

With never-before-published images, this large-scale book provides a remarkable new overview of Richter’s portraits dating from the 1960s to the present.

An in-depth look at Andy Warhol's 1980 series of silk-screen paintings and prints entitled Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, which depicts subjects ranging from Freud to Kafka.

Focusing on works by 6 artists, this original book presents a much-expanded definition of what constitutes contemporary Chinese art and reexamines the factors that shaped Chinese art in America.

An unprecedented look at the work of twelve of Korea’s most significant contemporary artists.

An in-depth study of four decades’ worth of work by Bruce Nauman, U.S. representative at the 53rd Venice Biennale, in the context of the city where the exhibition takes place.

An overview of the Art Institute’s expanding collection of film, video, and new media art.

This groundbreaking book examines the wide-ranging works––many of which are made from everyday materials––by one of America’s foremost self-taught artists, alongside a documentary DVD.

Focusing on 16 major works across a range of media by the Young British Artists––including Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst, and Antony Gormley––this book highlights the best of today’s art from Britain.

A critical study of Palermo’s painting from the time he entered Joseph Beuys’s class at the Düsseldorf academy in 1964 to his death in 1977—and his significance to postwar and abstract art.

A provocative look at how four New York City artists of the 1960s—Oldenburg, Johns, Judd, and Rauschenberg—grappled with the economic and architectural transformations of their city.

This anthology celebrates the fascinating history of the Whitney at Altria and for the first time plumbs the archives—photographs of exhibitions and performances and museum brochures published for each event—to provide a record of this incomparable museum and its contributions to contemporary art. 

This book focuses on work by contemporary artists including Jenny Holzer and Lin + Lam to examine censorship and how governmental secrecy compromises democracy.

A stunning look at the role of New England’s art colonies in the development of the work of such artists as Edward Hopper, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, and George Bellow, and modern American art.

Featuring stunning reproductions of Chagall’s theater murals along with posters and playbills, costume and set designs, and more, this beautiful book chronicles the flourishing of Soviet Jewish theater in the 1920s and 1930s.

A vivid personal portrait by a writer whose close friendship with the renowned artist has given him a unique insight into his work.

In 1926, Alexander Calder (1898–1976) moved from New York to Paris and began to use time and motion as "materials"...

A gorgeous book that focuses for the first time on the dialogue between drawing and painting in Cézanne’s watercolors.

This book traces the relationship that Picasso had with literature and writing in his life and work from historical, linguistic, and visual perspectives.

Featuring 75 paintings, drawings, and watercolors, this beautiful book explores Bonnard’s late interior and still-life imagery from the period 1923–1947, considered among his finest work.

A brilliant exploration of groundbreaking portraits produced in early 20th-century Paris by artists who, liberated by the advent of photography, re-imagined the nature of human portrayal.

A fascinating and in-depth look at Italian Divisionism––the most significant art movement in Italy during the last decades of the 19th century––and its direct influence on the Futurist movement.

A stunning look at Cézanne’s relationship to and influence on modern and contemporary artists ranging from Max Beckmann, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Giorgio Morandi to Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jeff Wall.

Sargent’s entrancing Venetian oils and watercolors are displayed and discussed in this gorgeous book.

Focusing on one crucial decade in the life of  Francis Bacon, the leading authority on this artist reveals essential keys to understanding his mysterious and subversive paintings.

This gorgeous book is the first to examine the relationship between these two great artists, both members of Stieglitz’s circle, and how they shaped each other’s careers and American modernism.

With works by Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Dorothea Lange, Jackson Pollock, and more, this book examines the connections between Regionalist and Modernist art through painting, photography, and film during the Great Depression.

This beautiful volume features 54 masterwork paintings, watercolors, and drawings by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse.

This book recounts the engaging story of a French-Irish immigrant who became the greatest American sculptor of his day and examines his role in the history of late19th-century American sculpture and the Aesthetic Movement.

This two-volume slipcased catalogue raisonné presents in color more than 2,000 works by Georgia O’Keeffe, an artist whose creations placed her at the center of the ferment in early twentieth-century American art. The catalogue’s paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture display O’Keeffe’s innovative use of color and form and testify to her distinctive contributio...

An illuminating look at American history through some of the most revered objects in American art––including paintings by Peale, Copley, and Homer and silver by Revere and Tiffany.

This original book examines Marsden Hartley’s pivotal series of landscape paintings of New Mexico created between 1918 and 1924 in the context of postwar American modernism.

New in paper

Featuring some 50 sculptures and more than 100 drawings from the late 1950s to 2003, this critically acclaimed book reevaluates the career of Lee Bontecou and assesses her influence on a generation of younger artists.

A close look at early 20th-century New York City through the paintings, drawings, and prints of John Sloan, whose dark palette and gritty urban scenes inspired the epithet “Ashcan School.”

Showcasing works by Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, and others, this beautifully illustrated book provides a new look at color field painting as a cohesive and influential art movement.

Unmatched in his ability to engage influential artists in open discussion, renowned art critic David Sylvester gathers in this book twenty-one interviews conducted over the past forty years. Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Louise Nevelson, Carl Andre and other leading artists illuminate all the great developments in American art since the 1960s. Only Sylvester could bring this remarkable chorus o...

This stunning book is published to accompany the first retrospective of the artist’s work in twenty-six years.  The book also includes a bibliography, numerous illustrations of the artist’s source material and previously unpublished works, and much more.

A timely and moving personal essay––inspired by Walter De Maria's remarkable Lightning Field (1977)––by one of America’s leading art critics, who visited the work numerous times over the course of 30 years.

The first comprehensive look at Wynn Kramarsky’s remarkable collection of modern and contemporary American drawings––by artists including Mel Bochner, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin––and the accompanying exhibition space.

A major new study of the life and career of Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas––the “father of Black American art”––and his significant role in the evolution of American modernism.

This absorbing book, a thought-provoking investigation of how American abstract artists and architects have negotiated Holocaust memory, arrives at new conclusions about abstraction and “Holocaust art.”

This compelling book looks in depth at the work of three influential women artists––Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and Joan Semmel––and at the import of feminism in their practices.

This breathtaking and original book examines Johns’s work from this pivotal decade through its primary themes and motifs, offering new critical and historical perspectives.

This book is the first comprehensive look at the extraordinary contribution Saul Steinberg made to 20th-century art.

A stunning book featuring recent earthworks, large-scale installations, sculptures, and drawings by Maya Lin that celebrate the scope of her creative process.

Featuring works in a variety of media––including painting, collage, glass, moving sculpture, photography, film, furniture, and graphic design––this book examines for the first time the lives and artistic achievements of two of modernism’s greatest innovators.

This elegant new edition of Albers’s classic and long-unavailable publication features 22 refined line drawings and original poems, providing a close look at this celebrated artist and his affectionate, articulate writings.

This richly illustrated book offers a detailed view of Mike Kelley’s Day Is Done, a spectacular and ambitious mixed-media installation inspired by images from high school yearbooks.

This handsomely illustrated book looks at the history, beauty, and import of this unique outdoor museum.

This recently discovered book manuscript by the celebrated artist Mark Rothko offers a revelatory discussion of his views on topics ranging from Renaissance to contemporary art, criticism, and the role of art and artists in society. 

This provocative book features a collection of some 90 documents, including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures written by Rothko over the course of his career that offer a detailed picture of his life and art.

An exciting look at Lee Lozano’s previously unpublished early narrative figurative drawings from 1960–64.

With a diverse oeuvre ranging from painting to mixed-media installations to performance, video, and photography, María Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba. This handsome full-scale survey of her career offers an unprecedented opportunity to assess the significance of her challenging work, which probes questions of race, class, cu...

Focusing on recent paintings, sculptures, and video and installation art, this creative book explores the work of 17 important contemporary Asian American artists.

These lavishly illustrated and revelatory books examine Eva Hesse’s paintings and sculptures––some previously unknown––and feature fascinating archival images.  Slipcased set

Facsimile Edition

These previously unpublished facsimile editions of Eva Hesse’s personal datebooks from 1964–65 offer an intimate look at the artist’s life and career during a pivotal period. 3-vol. slipcased set

The first to explore Eva Hesse's drawing process––the basis for all her art––this book provides an intimate look at her everyday practice and methodology.

In this absorbing volume, six leading scholars investigate Flavin’s light works and their place in 20th-century art.

This landmark book—the first retrospective publication of Dan Flavin’s extraordinary and innovative art published since 1969—presents around 45 of the artist’s most important light works and drawings spanning the range of his career.

The full range of Dan Flavin’s stunning light works are presented together for the first time in this definitive catalogue raisonné. Newly photographed sculptures and installations—including well-known pieces and some rarely seen—are accompanied by fascinating text that discusses the artist’s intentions and working methods.

Featuring works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Alfred Stieglitz, and more, this book traces the evolution of American art across one hundred years.

This beautifully illustrated book addresses the work of pioneering American artists––including Frederic Remington, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ansel Adams, and Jackson Pollock––during the first half of the 20th century.

How did artists of the twentieth century use their work to respond to their unique personal experiences and moment in history? This provocative question is explored in this engaging new book on American art. By focusing on broad, defining themes, embodied in the work of such pivotal artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, the authors look at how ar...

This handsomely illustrated book focuses on 40 understudied and rarely seen late paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by these influential artists in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. Pop Art offers fresh insights into the ways in which artists radically transformed the mediums of painting and sculpture. For example, Lichtenstein is repositioned as a clas...

This rich anthology—the first collection of writings on the entire history of Abstract Expressionism—examines not only the development of the movement but also its enduring impact. With a masterful introduction and a comprehensive selection of influential writings by key artists and critics, this is the definitive text on postwar America’s most important art movement. 

American artist Ellsworth Kelly has occupied the center stage of modernism for some fifty years. His widely admired plant lithographs hold an important place in his remarkable oeuvre. This exquisitely illustrated book provides the definitive study of Kelly’s 72 plant, fruit, and flower lithographs, including insightful analyses of his art and approach to abstraction.

This superbly illustrated retrospective volume presents the past decade of Terry Winters’s innovative work in paintings, prints, drawings, and artists’ books and discusses the complex relationships that link them to one another.

This extraordinary book is the first volume of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Rothko’s work. It documents his entire output of paintings on canvas and panel, reproducing all the works in color. An introductory text also investigates every essential feature of his art.

This richly illustrated book reproduces in full color more than one hundred of Mark Rothko's paintings, prints, and drawings, including some of the stunningly simple yet enthralling rectangle paintings for which he is famous. The volume provides commentary on various formal aspects of Rothko's work, interviews with contemporary artists who reflect on Rothko's artistic legacy, and a chronology of t...

Artist Robert Rauschenberg has created an astonishing variety of works during a career spanning more than fifty years. The author of this book draws on extensive research and first-hand observation of the artist at work to offer an interpretation of Rauschenberg’s output that is both original and uniquely insightful.

Robert Smithson, a seminal artist in postwar America, created radical new perspectives for landscape architecture, photography, and site-specific installation. This book examines Smithson’s working model of history, focusing particularly on several influential works, including Spiral Jetty.

Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) was a painter, poet, writer, and pioneer of American Modernism. This superbly illustrated book encompasses the extraordinary range and depth of his visual works. Some seventy-five of Hartley’s landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and abstract paintings are featured, and the contributors to the volume discuss his innovations, his development as an artist, and ...

This original and thought-provoking book compares the art, lives, and achievements of three artists, each of whom became the preeminent twentieth-century female painter of her country: Emily Carr of Canada, Georgia O’Keeffe of the United States, and Frida Kahlo of Mexico. Important themes tie these artists’ visually disparate work together, the book shows, and viewing their work collec...

The first major survey of work by the prolific yet elusive American marine and landscape painter Thomas Chambers, rediscovered in the 20th century as “America’s first modern.”

Misunderstood and underappreciated in life, Thomas Eakins is now acclaimed as America’s foremost portrait painter. This revealing biography is the first to recount the full drama of the artist’s public and private life, drawing on a treasure trove of recently discovered Eakins family correspondence and papers to tell the compelling story.  

This long-awaited volume presents Chase’s beautiful monotypes, painted tiles, ceramic plates, watercolors, prints, and stunning paintings in pastel––a major and previously understudied body of work.

This highly anticipated book presents the entire collection of Chase’s known portraits in oil. Each is gorgeously reproduced, and many are published in color for the first time. This is the second of four volumes cataloguing the complete works of William Merritt Chase. The catalogue raisonné project has presented immense challenges, for Chase kept no records at all, and staggering numbe...

An engaging and comprehensive look at early American folk art and decorative arts—including portraits, carvings, quilts, family records, toys, ceramics, and much more—created in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In this fresh interpretation of the artist, Amy Werbel sets Eakins in the context of Philadelphia’s medical and artistic communities in the nineteenth century, and considers his provocative behavior in the light of other well-publicized scandals of his era. This illuminating perspective provides a rich, alternative account of Eakins and casts entirely new light on his renowned paintings.

This book explores the fascinating relationship between contemporary portrayals of children in nineteenth-century paintings, popular prints, illustrated primers, and advertisements, and their expected roles in society.

A look at the ways in which various artists including John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Alex Katz, and Yvonne Jacquette have been inspired by and responded to New England’s summer beauty and its social and cultural preoccupations and characteristics.

This lavishly illustrated book—the only comprehensive study of the artist available—describes Church’s life and career and details the ways in which the artist played a part in America’s development during the nineteenth century. John K. Howat, a distinguished scholar of American landscape painting, discusses the many talents of Frederic Church while also explaining the ric...

Samuel Colt (1814-1862) first patented his "Colt" revolver in 1835 and thereby redefined the architecture of handguns. This stunning book is the first to present in detail the evolution of his most famous invention and to document the unsurpassed Colt firearms collections held by the Wadsworth Atheneum. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, this volume presents the artistry of the firearms ...

The history of America is largely a history of the sea. This marvelous book features a selection of more than two hundred of the finest objects from Mystic Seaport that tell the history of America and its maritime heritage. Presented with accessible texts and beautiful reproductions are masterpieces of maritime painting, exquisite photographs of classic yachts and powerboat races, and diverse prin...

In this beautiful book, Trevor Fairbrother argues that viewing John Singer Sargent as a sensualist connects otherwise conflicting elements of his oeuvre and offers a new interpretation of his life and work. The book is lavishly illustrated with examples of the artist’s oils, watercolors, and sketches, and it includes a little-known series of expressive charcoal drawings of male nudes, here p...

As the principal authority on early American furniture for much of the twentieth century, Wallace Nutting collected, reproduced, and marketed colonial artifacts, promoting an idealized notion of a time and place he called “Old America.” This handsomely illustrated book is the first full-length study of Nutting’s life, work, and important contributions to American culture.

This innovative book features recent work by 22 contemporary Mexican artists and examines their impact on contemporary art worldwide.

Bilingual (English/Spanish)

This original book explores how American artists engaged with Spain and its art during the decades following the American Civil War. Spanish-influenced works by Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and others offer intriguing insights into the shifting relations between the two nations and into the emergence of an American national identity.

This comprehensive book explores the meanings of created and depicted objects from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions of the New World, from the Age of Discovery to the present day. With nearly two hundred illustrations, it offers fascinating insights into the development of Latin American cultures and the objects that have reflected and defined them.

In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. He discusses the upheavals in Mexico (1910–1940), in Cuba (1959–1989), and in Nicaragua (1979–1990) and assesses their legacies, demonstrating how the revolutions’ consequences reverberated in arts and cultures...

The Baroque World of Fernando Botero is the most extensive study of this renowned contemporary artist’s life and work to date.  Drawn exclusively from Botero’s private collection, the one hundred works featured in this book, including major sculpture and previously unpublished paintings and drawings, represent the full scope of his oeuvre from a uniquely personal perspectiv...

This beautifully illustrated book—the first in-depth study of the mesmerizing and colorful casta paintings from colonial Mexico—places them in social and historical context.

Through a collection of never-before-published interviews with the artist, this book presents an unprecedented look at Soto’s remarkable contributions to Latin American art.

The first in-depth study of one of the most influential Latin American avant-garde artists, this book includes over 100 works of art, books, documents, and manuscripts from Xul Solar’s personal archive and public and private collections.

This authoritative and beautiful book presents the first continuous narrative history of Latin American art from the years of the Independence movements in the 1820s up to the present day. Exploring both the indigenous roots and the colonial and post-colonial experiences of the various countries, the book investigates fascinating though little-known aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art...

This book traces Gego’s fascinating exploration of line and space through a range of beautiful and emotionally charged line-based abstract drawings, prints, and wire sculptures.

The texts in this book are published in both English and Spanish (and in some cases German, which was Gego’s native language) and are preceded by introductory notes. Reproductions of some of the original texts, plans for unfulfilled projects, and previously unpublished photographs are also featured. Sabiduras and Other Texts will undoubtedly motivate students, scholars, and anyone int...

This beautiful book—the first to explore the tradition of portraiture in Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the present—features a fascinating array of over 200 works from fifteen countries. 

This important volume—the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century—presents some fifty seminal essays and documents, including many previously unavailable in English.

In 2004, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presented Inverted Utopias, a critically acclaimed exhibition focusing on the development of avant-garde art in Latin America from 1920 to 1970. At the time of the exhibition, a major symposium was held at the museum. This handsome book brings together texts and commentary by leading art historians and critics who participated in the event. A wide ...

This landmark book showcases the innovative works of Latin American avant-garde artists of the twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 images, the volume features interpretations by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes by the artists themselves.