First published in 1986 Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her “tribe.†These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral charged and seething with a raw appetite for living and the book soon became…
Selected by the New York Times as one of the Best Art Books of 2022 and AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers Award. Edited by Thomas (T.) Jean Lax and Lilia Rocio Taboada in collaboration with Linda Goode Bryant. With contributions by Eric Booker, Brandon Eng, Thelma Golden, Linda Goode Bryant, Marielle Ingram, Kellie…
Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore’s legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape inaugurated a vital photographic tradition. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works ,…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister. With contributions by Elizabeth Otto and Lee Ann Daffner During an extraordinary career that originated at the Bauhaus, Josef Albers (1888–1976) achieved acclaim for his work across a range of mediums, from glassworks and furniture design to printmaking and painting. Yet…
Edited by Nina Zimmer, Natalie Dupêcher, Anne Umland, with Lee Colón and Nora Lohner The Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) may be best known for her furlined teacup of 1936, but her legacy encompasses much more than that notorious Surrealist object. Over the course of some sixty years Oppenheim produced a dizzying range of…
By Carolyn Lanchner Meret Oppenheim’s fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon is a favorite work of many visitors to The Museum of Modern Art. So vividly sensual as to be unsettling, this sculpture, which goes by the enigmatically plain title Object, was conceived in 1936, at a café on Paris’s Left Bank, where Pablo Picasso,…
It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world- a pocket “bible” for the talented and timid to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. The world’s top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse…
By Sarah Suzuki. Illustrated by Ellen Weinstein Growing up in Japan, Yayoi Kusama dreamed of becoming an artist. In the fields of her family’s nurseries she drew flowers and plants and stones, imagining the world around her as streams and clusters and arrays of dots. After studying traditional painting in Japan, Kusama moved to…
To look inside this book, click here. Winner of the Association of American Publisher’s 2015 PROSE Award for Best Art Exhibition Catalogue Edited by Starr Figura. With contributions by Elizabeth Childs, Starr Figura, Hal Foster, and Erika Mosier Though Paul Gauguin is best known as a pioneer of modernist painting, this book…
To look inside this book, click here. By Samantha Friedman. Illustrated by Cristina Amodeo One day, the artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird from a piece of white paper. It was a simple shape, but he liked the way it looked and didn’t want to throw it away, so he pinned…
To look inside this book, click here. By Emiliano Ponzi Nearly 6 million riders use the New York City subway every day. How do you make a map that helps all of them get to where they are going? The Great New York Subway Map, written and illustrated by Emiliano Ponzi and published…
By Leah Dickerman and Anna Indych-López In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art’s second monographic exhibition, which set attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York from Mexico six weeks before the opening and provided him with a makeshift studio space in the…
To look inside this book, click here. Introduction by Leah Dickerman. With contributions by Kevin Young and Robin Coste Lewis Between 1958 and 1960 Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) produced a series of 34 drawings one for each Canto or section of Dante’s poem The Inferno (1308–1321). Together they are a virtual encyclopedia of modernday…
Like its popular coffee-table counterpart for adults, this is an eclectic, engaging introduction to art history. With numerous questions that encourage children to think about art without imposing answers or limiting interpretations, the author subtly introduces artistic concepts and critical thinking. The handsome design includes numerous full-page reproductions as well as details illustrating particular points.
Edited by Peter Galassi Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this is the first major publication to make full use of the extensive holdings of the Fondation Cartier-Bresson—including thousands of prints and…
During the Great Depression, as the United States struggled with soaring levels of poverty, hunger, and unemployment, architect Frank Lloyd Wright presented a radical new plan for American community life. His Broadacre City, an expansive vision of urban and environmental renewal, focused on personal independence, respect for nature, and the equitable distribution of resources—including a…