Top 10

Andrew Wyeth: The Masterworks

William L. Coleman. Rizzoli Electa, Sept. 22 ($50, ISBN 978-0-8478-7696-9)

Featuring 100 of the American painter’s best-known works, this comprehensive volume explores how his unique compositions and subtle palette created art that feels both modern and timeless.

A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint

Wendy S. Walters. Scribner, Oct. 13 ($30, ISBN 978-1-9821-7855-0)

The cultural critic probes what the ubiquity of white paint in homes, workplaces, and art galleries reveals about contemporary society.

I Sold Alice Cooper’s Andy Warhol

Richard Polsky. Other Press, Nov. 3 ($31.99, ISBN 978-1-63542-599-4)

Polsky, an art dealer and authenticator, recaps his efforts to validate an Andy Warhol painting that the musician Alice Cooper received as a gift in 1972, put in storage, and forgot about for 40 years.

Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous

David Breslin et al. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 20 ($65, ISBN 978-1-58839-823-9)

This survey of the lives and works of the married abstract expressionists traces their influence on each other and details such artistic breakthroughs as Lee Krasner’s turn to collage.

Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism

Annelise K. Madsen. Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 22 ($50, ISBN 978-0-300-29269-5)

The trailblazing impressionist gets her due in a volume focusing on her later work, including Modern Woman, a mural commissioned for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect

Brian D. Goldstein. Princeton Univ., Sept. 15 ($39.95, ISBN 978-0-691-22066-6)

Historian Goldstein delivers the first biography of the architect behind Atlanta’s King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The Misogynists: A Reckoning with Modern Art

Allison Leigh. Abrams Press, Nov. 10 ($35, ISBN 978-1-4197-7069-2)

Six leading figures of modern art, including Renoir, Gauguin, and Picasso, are accused of being unrepentant misogynists in this cri de coeur against sexism in the art world.

Roy Lichtenstein

Alex Da Corte and Meg Onli. Whitney Museum of American Art, Oct. 13 ($65, ISBN 978-0-300-29293-0)

This career-spanning retrospective explores the pop artist’s methods, influences, and subjects, and includes reproductions of his preparatory drawings and source materials.

Totem: The Untold Story of Sculpture

Jo Baring. Ecco, Nov. 3 ($28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-357109-9)

Ranging from Mayan pyramids to radical modern-day works, Baring examines how sculpture has shaped and been shaped by human experience, while spotlighting such artists as Constantin Brâncuși, Antony Gormley, and Barbara Hepworth.

The True Artist Breaks Out of Jail

Ben Okri and Rosemary Clunie. Thames & Hudson, Nov. 17 ($24.95, ISBN 978-0-500-02821-6)

Booker winner Okri and artist Clunie team up for a hybrid work of poetry and painting that tackles war, climate change, and the human psyche.

Longlist

Abrams

Time & Beauty: The Elements of Design by Dan Fink (Oct. 27, $75, ISBN 978-1-4197-8719-5) offers lessons on the fundamentals of interior design and how to select and place natural elements in rooms.

Angel City

The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles 1967–1990 by Lauren Hanson (Oct. 13, $50, ISBN 978-1-62640-122-8) celebrates with essays and archival material the South L.A. gallery, which opened in 1967 after the Watts rebellion and nurtured the early careers of David Hammons, Suzanne Jackson, and Carrie Mae Weems.

Artisan

How Architects Live by Marc Blazer (Oct. 13, $50, ISBN 978-1-64829-460-0) tours more than a dozen homes where the world’s leading architects reside, including Diego Villasenõr’s sanctuary in Mexico and Sigurd Larsen’s island hideaway in Kythnos, Greece.

Bauer and Dean

America’s Hometown Movie Theaters: Please Remain Standing by Benita VanWinkle (Sept. 1, $75, ISBN 978-1-7356001-4-7) pays tribute to the architectural variety of movie theaters and drive-ins built before 1965 with more than 500 photographs from all 50 states.

Black Dog & Leventhal

Women in Comics: Iconic Characters and Influential Creators from the 1890s to Today by Susan Kirtley and Nhora Lucia Serrano
(Oct. 6, $50, ISBN 979-8-89414-132-9) shines a spotlight on the female cartoonists, including Nell Brinkley, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel, and female characters, such as Lois Lane and Catwoman, who have shaped comics history.

Chronicle

It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O’Malley by Christina Amini (Aug. 4, $40, ISBN 978-1-7972-3062-7) presents the San Francisco Bay Area artist’s major works in full-color photographs, including her public art series Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self.

Stories in the Seams: A People’s History of Black Quilts and Their Makers by Sharbreon Plummer (Oct. 6, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-7972-3157-0) surveys the history of Black quiltmaking in the U.S. with archival photos of quilters and quilting bees, as well as full-page reproductions of historical and contemporary quilts.

Cleveland Museum of Art

Spectacular Freedom: Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor by Britany Salsbury (Sept. 29, $50, ISBN 978-0-300-29273-2) revisits Andrew Wyeth’s early watercolors of rural Pennsylvania and Maine, and explores the early-20th-century interest in watercolor as a distinctively American medium.

Detroit Institute of Arts

Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture, edited by Benjamin Colman (Sept. 15, $35, ISBN 978-0-300-29274-9), examines the artist’s paintings of New York City skyscrapers, New Mexico adobe homes, and other features of the built environment.

Duke Univ.

Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader by Harmony Hammond, edited by Tirza True Latimer (Aug. 25, $39 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4780-3886-3), collects 50 years of writings by the critic, artist, and Heresies journal founder on the historical invisibility of women and lesbian artists, the politics of gender and sexuality in contemporary art, and more.

Fantagraphics

Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Era, edited by Brian Chidester and Domenic Priore (Oct. 13, $59.99, ISBN 979-8-8750-0231-1), tracks the rise of surf culture from early-20th-century Hawaii to the Southern California–set beach movies of the 1950s and ’60s, and the launch of surf magazines that featured artists like Michael Dormer and Rick Griffin.

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Canoe: A Collection of Canadian Art by Anne Ewen and Rod Green (Sept. 22, $45, ISBN 978-1-77327-294-8). Spanning 200 years, this visual archive presents 90 works of art showing the eponymous watercraft by Canadian artists including Alex Colville, Frances Anne Hopkins, and Walter Phillips.

Fordham Univ.

In View of the Tradition: Black Art and Radical Thought by Roderick A. Ferguson (Oct. 6, $22.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5315-1345-0) studies contemporary Black artists, like Stephen Hayes, Fabrice Monteiro, and Carrie Mae Weems, who reckon in their work with capitalism, migration, ecological crisis, and other social issues.

G Editions

Blossoms by Hunt Slonem (Sept. 1, $120, ISBN 978-1-943876-86-0). The fourth in a series that includes Bunnies, Birds, and Butterflies, this collection showcases Slonem’s neo-expressionist paintings of flowers.

Gibbs Smith

Desert Dreaming: Design in the Southwest and Beyond by Jessica Ritz (Oct. 6, $50, ISBN 978-1-4236-6898-5) celebrates the architecture and interior design of homes in the Chihuahuan, Mojave, Sonoran, and Great Basin deserts.

Harbour

The Best of Roy Henry Vickers: 80 Selected Works by Roy Henry Vickers (Aug. 11, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-998526-63-5) includes 80 artworks created by the Indigenous artist between 1974 and 2024, highlighting his use of bold lines and vivid colors to depict the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

HarperOne

If Women Ruled the World: On Art, Power, and Possibility, edited by Christina Hawatmeh (Dec. 1, $35 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-343744-9), brings together art, poetry, and prose by 88 contributors who were asked to imagine an alternate present shaped by feminist leadership.

Harvard Univ.

Harnessing Divinity: Generative Design and the Buddhist Architecture of Early Medieval China by Tracy Miller (Dec. 8, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-674-30750-6) reveals how Buddhist halls built in sixth-century China were designed to harness natural energies and facilitate communication with higher realms.

La Martinière

The BUF Story: Creating Visual Effects Since 1985 by Réjane Hamus-Vallée and Caroline Renouard (Sept. 15, $40, ISBN 978-1-4197-9060-7) chronicles the 40-year history of the French special effects studio behind Fight Club, The Matrix, and Blade Runner 2049.

LOM Art

3D Street Art: The Artists Who Shaped a Movement: A Visual Journey by Erni Vales (Oct. 6, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-915751-81-2) spotlights such international graffiti artists as Hoxxoh, Lady Pink, JanIsDeMan, and Astro, and details the techniques they use to create a 3D effect in their work.

Lyons

Fire in the Night Sky: The Steel Mill Paintings of Aaron Gorson by Maxwell King (Aug. 18, $80, ISBN 978-1-4930-9229-1) showcases the painter’s dramatic night scenes of Pittsburgh’s steel mills in the early 1900s and his contributions to urban landscape art.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Across Wine-Dark Seas: Art and Identity Beyond Ancient Greece, edited by Seán Hemingway, Alexis Belis, and Delphine Tonglet (Jan. 8, $65, ISBN 978-1-58839-816-1), surveys ancient Greek art before the Classical age, exploring how it was influenced by exposure to the visual cultures of Egypt and elsewhere in Africa, Persia, and Iberia.

MIT

Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto by Jack Halberstam (Aug. 18, $34.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-262-05242-9) draws links between the anarchitecture movement of the 1970s, which sought to unmake the built environment via such techniques as cutting a suburban house in half, and the aesthetics of contemporary trans artists.

Norton

Monumental: A Stonemason’s Tale by Simon Warrack (Sept. 8, $31.99, ISBN 978-1-324-07598-1). The author, an English stonemason who specializes in conserving ancient buildings and monuments, shares details about his projects and describes stonecutters’ tools and techniques passed down through the ages.

Princeton Architectural Press

Dieu Donné: Paper Making Art by Susan Gosin (Aug. 25, $65, ISBN 978-1-7972-4432-7) details the history and process of hand papermaking at Dieu Donné, a nonprofit studio in New York City whose master papermakers have collaborated with such artists as William Kentridge, Chuck Close, and Michelle Oka Donor.

Folger Shakespeare Library: Renewal and Revitalization by Stephen Kieran and Huwayda Fakhry (Sept. 1, $50, ISBN 978-1-7972-4273-6) recounts the creation of the Washington, D.C., research library in 1923 and its renovation, a 13-year process starting in 2011 that has made the institution’s holdings more accessible to visitors.

Princeton Univ.

Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect by Richard J. Powell (Sept. 1, $65, ISBN 978-0-691-28516-0) draws on colorstruck, a 20th-century slang term describing prejudice toward people with darker skin complexions, to investigate how Black painters, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Henry Taylor, and Alma Thomas use color in their work.

The Couple with the Pitchfork: American Gothic from Easel to Icon by Wanda M. Corn (Oct. 27, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-691-28634-1) tracks the evolving reputation of Grant Wood’s American Gothic since it premiered at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930, analyzing how the rural couple it depicts became two of the most recognizable figures in art.

Rizzoli

Politics Is a Drag by Ashley Longshore (Sept. 1, $50, ISBN 978-0-7893-4663-6) contains pop art portraits of every U.S. president dressed in drag, including a rhinestone-wearing Abraham Lincoln who goes by the stage name Baberaham Lickin’.

Rizzoli Electa

Marina Abramovic: Long Life, Short Stories by Marina Abramovic (Oct. 6, $65, ISBN 978-0-8478-7704-1). Timed to coincide with Abramovic’s 80th birthday, this monograph pairs personal stories and musings on love, fear, nature, and other subjects with original drawings.

Simon & Schuster

Uncovering Antioch: The Ancient City and Its Lost Treasures of Mosaic Art by Robert Kanigel (Aug. 25, $30, ISBN 978-1-6680-0625-2) recounts the 1932 discovery and excavation of hundreds of mosaics in Antioch, Syria, many of them room-sized tableaus depicting banquets, animals, and scenes from mythology.

Tate

Tracey Emin: A Second Life by Maria Balshaw and Alvin Li (Oct. 6, $60, ISBN 978-1-917055-02-4) features the British artist’s best-known works, as well as previously unseen pieces, shedding light on her commitment to unapologetic self-expression.

Trees in Art by Rachel Taylor (Oct. 6, $27, ISBN 978-1-84976-932-7) brings together sculptures, paintings, and land art from around the world to explore how depictions of trees reflect changing attitudes toward the environment.

Ten Speed

The Discworld Bestiary by Terry Pratchett, illus. by Paul Kidby (Nov. 3, $35, ISBN 979-8-217-27362-1). In this comprehensive illustrated guide to the creatures of Pratchett’s Discworld series, readers will learn about the best way to care for the Terrible Man-Eating Sloth of Clup and the eating habits of the Ambiguous Puzuma, among other insights.

Thames & Hudson

The Beverly Hills Housewife: Hockney’s Californian Muse & the World Beyond the Pool by James Cahill (Nov. 3, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-500-02881-0) dives into the collaboration between David Hockney and L.A. art collector Betty Friedman, the subject of his 1967 painting Beverly Hills Housewife.

Color Unbound: Henri Matisse 1941–1954 by Claudine Grammont et al. (Sept. 1, $65, ISBN 978-0-500-03157-5) zooms in on the last years of the French artist’s life to examine how he produced some of his most dynamic work, including the design for Venice’s Chapel of the Rosary, despite his physical decline.

Tra

Women in Art: Icons, from Frescoes to Street Art by Alix Paré (Sept. 22, $24, ISBN 978-1-962098-43-4) surveys how female heroism has been depicted in works by Mary Cassatt, Faith Ringgold, Peter Paul Rubens, and others.

Tuttle

Vintage Japan: Rare 19th Century Photographs from the Yokohama Studio of Felice Beato by Ornella Civardi (Oct. 20, $40, ISBN 978-4-8053-2067-9) comprises hundreds of albumen silver prints taken by British Italian photographer Felice Beato of the landscapes, buildings, and people of shogun-era Japan.

Vendome

Rajasthan Style: India’s Magical Palaces, Forts, and Camps by Melissa Biggs Bradley (Sept. 1, $85, ISBN 978-0-86565-481-5) contains photographs showcasing the opulent architecture and vibrant textiles of the eponymous state in northwestern India, known as the “Land of Kings.”

Verso

The Hard Question of Art: Cognitive Futures by Metahaven (Aug. 25, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-80429-194-8) attempts to rethink the purpose and effects of art by examining how the viewer’s role in perceiving and interpreting a work has evolved in an era of shrinking attention spans.

Victoria & Albert Museum

Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires, edited by Tim Stanley (Oct. 8, $75, ISBN 978-1-83851-063-3), traces the 1,600-year history of the city, which served as the capital of both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, and the evolution of its art and design traditions.

Viz Media

The Studio Ghibli Chronicles: Inside Stories from the Award-Winning Animation Studio by Toshio Suzuki (Sept. 22, $30, ISBN 978-1-9747-6283-5) takes readers behind the scenes of the Tokyo animation studio and features art from films including Spirited Away, Totoro, and The Boy and the Heron.

Yale Univ.

The Sculpture of Donald Judd by Neil Levine (Oct. 13, $40, ISBN 978-0-300-29007-3) pushes back on the artist’s refusal to call his work “sculpture” by situating it within the history of the medium and offering insights into his thinking.

What Architecture Is by Witold Rybczynski (Sept. 22, $26, ISBN 978-0-300-29295-4) tackles the question of what makes a building a work of art through considerations of Hadrian’s Arch, the Eiffel Tower, the Barcelona Pavilion, and other structures.

Zone

Out of Character: Writing on Portraits by Tom Hare (Sept. 15, $32, ISBN 978-1-945861-36-9) ruminates on the play between text and art in Andy Warhol’s silk screens, paintings of Zen abbots from medieval China and Japan, and other portraits.

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