Edited by Christian Rattemeyer, Lynne Cooke, and Mark Godfrey. With contributions by Claire Gilman and Jason Smith  Published to accompany the first large-scale retrospective of Alighiero Boetti’s work outside Italy in over a decade, this volume presents the most comprehensive overview of the artist’s career to date. Covering all periods of Boetti’s broad oeuvre—including…
To look inside this book, click here.  Edited by Vladimir Kulic and Wolfgang Thaler. With contributions by Bogdan Bogdanovic, Vladimir Kulic, and Martino Stierli  Bogdan Bogdanović (1922–2010) was a Yugoslav architect, theorist, professor, and one-time mayor of Belgrade. His idiosyncratic memorials to the victims and heroes of World War II, scattered around the…
By Hugh Aldersey-Williams. With a contribution by Paola Antonelli  As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Great Britain was the epicenter of the development of modern industrial design. This book—the fourth volume in the MoMA Design Series, featuring works in the Museum’s extraordinary collection—explores this legacy, tracing the growth of British design from the…
To look inside this book, click here.  Edited by Achim Hochdörfer, Maartje Oldenburg, Barbara Schröder, and Ann Temkin  A central figure of Pop, installation art, and Happenings, Claes Oldenburg redefined art in the 1960s with his landmark environments The Street and The Store, his soft sculptures, and his proposals for colossal monuments. Since…
To look inside this book, click here.  By Esther Adler  The Chicago-born artist Charles White (1918–79) was celebrated during his lifetime for depictions of African-Americans that acquired the description “images of dignity.” His application of his extraordinary draftsmanship to address a lifetime of social and political concerns made him a vital influence on…
250 Works since 1980 from The Museum of Modern Art, New York At the core of The Museum of Modern Art’s new building in Midtown Manhattan are dramatic and expansive new galleries devoted to showcasing the Museum’s world-famous collection of international contemporary art. Contemporary Highlights presents this impressive collection in pocket size. This new handbook…
Edited by Klaus Biesenbach  Throughout his career, Douglas Gordon has engaged in an ongoing reflection on the motion picture. By altering and recontextualizing familiar and popular films in order to throw into high relief the relationship between film, memory, and identity, Gordon examines the relationship between movies and our perception of them, and, effectively,…
By C. Ian White  This charming children’s book follows the young Charles White as he goes to the library every day to look at picture books and watch the people around him. Later he draws what he has seen on scraps of paper. Over time he learns to be patient and observant, and, by…
To look inside this book, click here.  Edited by Roxana Marcoci and Sarah Hermanson Meister. With contributions by Jodi Roberts  Published to accompany the first US museum exhibition of the work of German-born Grete Stern and Argentinean Horacio Coppola, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires explores the individual accomplishments and parallel developments of two…
Encounters with extraordinary photographs, from the very beginnings of the medium to the present day Highlighting a selection of extraordinary photographs spanning more than a century of the medium’s history, Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection presents images that transport viewers across space and time. Reflecting a multitude of styles, approaches, and processes,…
First published in 1964, Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit is a whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life. Featuring an introduction by John Lennon, the book contains hundreds of poetic instructions, as well as the essay “To the Wesleyan People,” a conceptual questionaire and “Ono’s Sale List.”  An original version of Grapfruit…
Essay by Susan Kismaric  Through such formal devices as series and multipanel works, JoAnn Verburg invigorates photography’s common genres: the portrait, the landscape, the domestic view. Whether taking pictures of artists, swimmers, newspapers, trees, or pyramids constructed from sand, Verburg deftly explores representations of time and space.  This publication, which accompanies a survey…
By Philipp Deines. Foreword by Julia Voss  A moving biography, told in vivid illustrations, this graphic novel features key moments in the life of Swedish artist and pioneer of abstract painting Hilma af Klint (1862–1944). Long underrecognized, af Klint is amid a sensational rediscovery that continues to take art audiences by storm. Artist Philipp…
Edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. Contributions by Brent Hayes Edwards, Momtaza Mehri, V.Y. Mudimbe, Yasmina Price A rich examination of the role of portrait photography in the construction of Africa as a political idea The independence movements that swept the African continent in the 1960s coincided with an exhilarating campaign for civil rights in the…